Richard M. Olcott, FAIA, and Linda Pollak, AIA, both with firms in New York City, received fellowships to live and work at the American Academy in Rome, atop Rome’s highest hill, the Janiculum. The architects are among the 31 winners of the 107th annual Rome Prize competition.

The Rome Prizes, juried by leading artists and scholars in the different disciplines, are awarded in the fields of architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, musical composition, visual arts, ancient studies, medieval studies, Renaissance and early modern studies, and modern Italian studies. Prize winners range in age from 26 to 60 and hail from nine states.

As a recipient in the architecture category, Olcott, a partner at the Polshek Partnership Architects and a commissioner of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, will study the “Hybrid Building and the Urban Continuum.” Pollak, a principal of Marpillero Pollak Architects and a design critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, submitted her proposal on the “Urban Topographies Between Architecture and Landscape.”

Reed Kroloff, associate professor, Arizona State University, and Susan Yelavich, a design historian in New York City, also received fellowships for their submissions in the design category, and J. Yolande Daniels received a prize in architecture.

The design jury included Wendy Evans Joseph, FAIA, president, Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture, New York City; Mary Margaret Jones, president, Hargreaves Associates, San Francisco; M. David Lee, FAIA, adjunct professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Chee Pearlman, design columnist and principal, Chee Company, New York City; Joel Sanders, AIA, associate professor of architecture, Yale University School of Architecture; and Frederick Steiner, dean of University of Texas School of Architecture, Austin.

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