The publication, ROME REDUX, was presented and released on Saturday, April 15th at the MAXXI Museum auditorium before an audience of Pratt Institute dignitaries that included the President, two Vice Presidents, the SOA Dean, and UA Chair, retiring and incoming Rome Program directors and graduates of the program from nearly every one of its 50 years.
Pratt Rome Program Celebrates 50 Years
On Saturday, April 15th at the Palazzo Brancaccio in the historic city of Rome, an event to honor all who contributed to the making and preserving of the Pratt Rome Program took place. In particular, former director Richard Piccolo and student services coordinator Emanuela Ricciardi were honored with the creation of a scholarship fund in their name for future students. The gala was attended by nearly 400 guests, making it one of the largest alumni events in the history of Pratt Institute.
Rome Redux
UA ROME PROGRAM APPROACHES ITS 50TH YEAR
Frederick Biehle has curated an exhibition opening in the Robert Seigal Gallery at Pratt Institute’s Higgins Hall that presents the pedagogy and recent work of the Rome Program for which he is the longstanding academic coordinator. The exhibit is open from September 20th to 30th on which date there will be a closing ceremony.
Brooklyn/Rome
Episodic Urbanisms, the publication on the pedagogy and work of the Pratt Institute Rome Program, a program for the past 8 years directed by departmental Chair Erika Hinrichs, and for the previous 20 years coordinated by Frederick Biehle, will be released as a part of the festivities to mark the 40th anniversary of the program at the Palazzo Doria Pamfilj in Rome. Essays by Ryszard Sliwka, Jeffrey Hogrefe, Frederick Biehle and an introduction by Erika Hinrichs.
Rome, Italy
2017 is the 40th year of the Pratt Institute Rome Program, a program that has been directed in its entirety by Richard Piccolo and coordinated for 20 of those years by Frederick Biehle. Pratt Institute will mark the occasion by inviting alumni to Rome to celebrate the significance of this program in the education of its archtiects. The culminating event will be the evening of April 13 at the Palazzo Doria Pamfijl,. The Institute president, Thomas Schutte, as well as he Dean of Architecture, Thomas Hanrahan, will be in attendance.
