Jose Parral Wins Rome Prize
Landscape architecture professor will study at the American Academy in Rome next year
Jose Parral, a recent addition to the KSA faculty, was awarded the 2006-2007 Rome Prize in the field of Landscape Architecture. Parral will study at the American Academy in Rome, where he will research traditional and contemporary art and its culture, as well as the influence of art on the urban landscape of Rome and alternatives in urban design.
Parral studied landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkley and obtained an MA from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He has worked for several landscape architecture firms including Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects in San Diego, Pamela Burton & Company in Los Angeles, and Walter Hood Designs in Oakland. He has been involved in landscape projects for the Getty Center Central Garden in Los Angeles and Petco Park in San Diego. His work has been included in a number of group exhibitions such as “Otra/Another,” Galeria de Arte del Instituto de Cultura de Baja California in Tijuana, “the Machine Landscape Exhibition,” at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata in Buenos Aires and “Projects Review,” at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.
Established in 1894, the American Academy in Rome honors up to 30 individuals each year with The Rome Prize through a national open competition juried by leading artists and scholars in the fellowship fields. Among those honored are emerging artists working in architecture, landscape architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, literature, music composition, or visual arts, and scholars working in ancient, medieval, Renaissance and early modern, or modern Italian studies.
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Posted: 6/1/2006