Architecture

Architecture

Architecture Event, 2017
Entrance of the BSR, 2023
Exhibition at the BSR ‘Brave New World. New Visions in Architecture. Mean Home’, 2019
Architecture Event, 2019

Architecture has played a fundamental and critical role at the BSR since its foundation in 1901; studied both as a scholarly and practical subject, its scope is now understood to include all aspects of the design of the physical environment and its preservation. 

Rome is a place where the modern encounters the old, thus the ideal realm for practising architects and architectural historians alike. Residencies at the BSR offer access to Rome and Italy as an exceptional repertory of cultural heritage and provide award-holders with a route into the intellectual heart of the Eternal City. Unique to the experience is the closely-knit engagement with a variety of artistic disciplines within the BSR, as well as with researchers in, for example, archaeology, art history, classics, history and modern Italian culture.

A range of lectures by fellow award-holders, eminent visiting architects, artists and scholars, and exhibitions of work — including that of award-holders — create an unrivalled dynamic and snapshot of contemporary scholarship. In the recent past we have had a vibrant architecture events programme and we intend to develop this further in coming years through the contribution of the appointed award-holders.

Architecture Awards at the BSR

Currently, Architecture at the BSR is specifically supported by the Rome Scholarship in Architecture (recently known as the Scholars’ Prize in Architecture), the Giles Worsley Rome Fellowship, the Quebec Residency and the Nicholas Boas Travel Scholarship. You can view all architecture awards tenable at the BSR here. Other awards at the BSR support a broad range of scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as the Visual Arts, whose research interests may encompass or intersect with Architecture. Finally, the Paul Mellon Rome Fellowship, is another post-doctoral opportunity open to architecture scholars.

Those who hold awards draw from and contribute to the BSR’s uniquely lively and engaged intellectual environment, including the possibility to enhance their own practice and research skills. Equally important is the opportunity to immerse themselves in a city of historical and contemporary significance.


Latest Events

Latest Events

ITALY
Rediscovering Byzantium | Il ritorno dei Greci in Occidente nel XV secolo, tra Tolomeo e Platone
Alla fine del Trecento e poi per tutto il secolo successivo, si assiste in Occidente, e in particolare a Firenze, a una ripresa della conoscenza
13 March 2024
18:00 - 19:30
ITALY
Rome Transformed: Plenary Lecture & Conference
The conference will start on the 20 March at 2 pm and will end on the 22 March at 5 pm. See the programme here.
20, 21 & 22 March 2024
From 20th March at 14.00 to 22nd March at 17.00
ITALY
City of Rome | Servicing Ostia: transport logistics and deliveries in Rome’s imperial port
This lecture is inspired by two key aspects of Geoffrey Rickman’s interest in Roman antiquity: a fundamental desire to understand how the ancient world really
3 April 2024
18:00 - 19:30

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