ABSTRACT
This chapter, by Denise Costanzo, focuses on Americans studying architecture abroad—at the American Academy in Rome. The essay highlights the establishment of the center, originally called the American School of Architecture in Rome, in 1894, by the architect Charles McKim and the residences of Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi, thus spanning the Beaux-Arts, Modernist, and Postmodernist periods of the twentieth century. Costanzo offers evidence that Rome and by extension other great cities continue to serve as de facto schools of architecture.
