Monday, April 14, 2008

Two Alumni Awarded the Rome Prize for 2008-09

The American Academy in Rome has announced the recipients of the coveted Rome Prize for 2008-09. Among the awardees are two School of Architecture alumni, Hope Hasbrouk and Matthew Hural.

Hope Hasbrouk (MArch’91) has been awarded the Garden Club of America Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture for her project,"Interpreting Cultural Territories Through Prospect and Passage". Hasbrouk holds a MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

Matt Hural (BSArch’03, MArch’07), an adjunct member of the faculty, has been awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize in Architecture for his project, "Between Inside and Out: Aurelian Gates". Hural is a designer at Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects in Charlottesville.


About the Rome Prize: "Each year, through a national competition, the Rome Prize is awarded to 15 emerging artists (working in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Literature, Musical Composition, or Visual Arts) and 15 scholars (working in Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and early Modern, or Modern Italian Studies)..... Fellowship winners come to Rome to refine and expand their own professional, artistic or scholarly aptitudes, drawing on their colleagues’ erudition and experience, as well as on the inestimable resources of the Italian capital, Europe and the Mediterranean."

Hasbrouk and Hural will spend 11 months in residence at the American Academy in Rome, working on their projects, interacting with artists and scholars from many disciplines, and traveling through the region.

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American Academy in Rome Prize Winners 2008-09