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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon HALL, Suzanne Born: Architect SAIA Rome Scholar 1998-9. Suzanne Hall writes about her experiences as a Rome Scholar. The scholarship is awarded essentially on the recognition of design ability at urban and architectural levels, and as such the scholarship is intended to provide an intensive period of exposure at urban and architectural scales. It is not a formalised post-graduate scholarship and the process of exposure and exploration is broadly left to the awardee to define. There is no formal ‘curriculum’ for the scholarship; the purpose is to undertake a series of design and research exercises and to gain exposure through research material, collaboration, site visits and travel. The British School at Rome is a community consisting of a variety of scholars and artists and hence a variety of views and approaches are held within this community. Participation through lecture series, exhibitions, formal and informal discussions (not always within one’s own professional ambit), slide series, and peer review, all contributed to a rich and provoking environment to learn and to shape and refine ideas. The diversity of influence and exposure to a wide range of academic and creative material allowed me to pursue a number of very different project types. My process of learning, research and discovery was loosely conducted through extensive travels, site visits, reading, writing, drawing and discussion. DESCRIPTION OF WORK DONE Design Projects The reinterpretation of a quarry site, Lettomanoppello, Abruzzo. The analysis of a housing block, via di Pellegrino, Rome. The reinterpretation of lessons from Rome, Cato Manor, South Africa. Exhibitions Comune di Lettomanoppello. Exhibition of work for fellow architectural scholars at the respective academies in Rome. Exhibition of work. British School at Rome. Research themes; photographic essays and lectures ‘Exposure and Secrecy in the city’ ‘Darkness and Light’ ‘Everything is in a state of becoming’ – the process of growth and change as the starting point for housing policy. Field trips Literally hundreds of settlements, landscapes, buildings, museums and galleries were visited within Rome and Italy. The award has been of immense value primarily because it has broadened my perspectives way beyond the world in which I currently live and work. This process of learning has emerged not only from the exposure to ideas but also because of the exposure to contemporary urban life in Rome. The privilege of being located in a vibrant, sensuous, great European city is an extraordinary experience for any person, and is wonderfully provocative for a person engaged in the built environment. Extracted and edited from an electronic document authored by Prof Paul KOTZE. All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.