Landscape ArchitectureZaneta Hong
2018 The Garden Club of America/Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture
Zaneta Hong is an assistant professor in landscape architecture at the University of Virginia. Architects and designers routinely reorganize the earth’s matter and form, using complex material ecologies. Hong’s project aims to investigate the hidden histories of materials used in the construction and manufacturing of Roman architecture and urban infrastructure. Moreover, she will examine how specific materials have shaped and been shaped by contemporary shifts in climatic zones, geopolitical territories, regional to global economies, and emergent technologies. Her research will begin with the study of a single material—one that is environmentally and symbolically foundational to the history, present, and future of Rome—Carrara marble.
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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