Foreign academies constitute a unique peculiarity of the city and represent an unrivalled cultural resource: an international network that continues to fuel exchanges, disciplinary cross-pollination and new readings of the urban space.
The Grand Tour originated between the 17th and 18th centuries as an educational journey undertaken by the artistic and intellectual community that arrived in Rome to engage with the city as a laboratory of knowledge. This tradition has progressively institutionalised itself through the presence in Rome of foreign academies, places of residence and research that still today welcome, every year, figures from various countries.
12.05
18:00 | Dialogue
ROME, CITY OF ACADEMIES
with the leadership of some foreign Academies in Rome
Within the contemporary Grand Tour programme
edited by Federica Andreoni and Maite Méndez Baiges
in collaboration with the Real Academia de España en Roma
official greetings
Christian Rocchi (President of the Order of Architects PPC of Rome and province)
introduce
Claudia Ricciardi (Director of the House of Architecture)
present
Federica Andreoni (Head of the Architecture Area, Royal Academy of Spain in Rome)
moderate
Maite Méndez (Director of the Real Academia de España en Roma)
they intervene
Alessandro Gallicchio (Director of the Art History Department, Villa Medici)
Aliza S. Wong (Director of the American Academy in Rome)
Julia Draganović (Director of Villa Massimo)
Mikkel Harder (Director of the Danish Academy)
H. 19:30
EXHIBITION OPENING
“Contemporary Grand Tour. Rome through the eyes of the foreign academies”
with a celebratory toast
promoted by
House of Architecture
Order of Architects PPC of Rome and province