Professor Charles Waldheim, Associate Dean and Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture program, is currently the Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize Fellow in Landscape Architecture at the American Academy in Rome, and will deliver a lecture titled ‘Disabitato and the Emergence of Landscape’ on Wednesday June 27, 2007.

The Rome Prize Fellowship extends Prof. Waldheim’s research on the role of landscape as an element of urban order in the context of decentralizing urban form in North America. He is using the time in Rome to examine the role of landscape in a particular moment of depopulation in the urban history of Rome: the ancient Roman disabitato. This experience at the American Academy in Rome will contribute a chapter to Prof. Waldheim’s ongoing work on agrarian models for contemporary urbanism.

Through its annual fellowship program, the American Academy supports a small group of individuals highly regarded for their work in 18 arts and humanities disciplines including architecture, landscape architecture, painting, poetry and musical composition. These artists and scholars spend a period at the Academy, working on independent projects and participating in informal dialogue and organized symposia with other Fellows.

For more information on the Rome Prize: www.aarome.org