Landscape ArchitectureKate Thomas
2019 The Garden Club of America/Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture
Dr. Kate Thomas is the K. Laurence Stapleton Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. She holds a master’s degree from Cornell University and a PhD from University of Oxford. Her project will focus on the sensory qualities of the garden, including vistas, textures, and sounds, and exploring how a body might move through the space. She says, “this project allows me to turn my literary study to the material and botanical, a gesture newly understood in my eld as attention to ‘vibrant matter,’” appreciated by authors over a century ago to be particularly enabled by the Italian culture. Her study will concentrate on Villa Gamberaia, near Florence. She intends to publish both an article and a book following her residency.
The Garden Club of America/Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture
The American Academy in Rome supports innovative artists, writers, and scholars living and working together in a dynamic international community. The Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture, which includes geography, environmental design and planning, landscape and ecological urbanism, landscape history, sustainability, and ecological studies, provides American landscape architects with a special opportunity for advanced study, travel, and association with other fellows in Rome.
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