Christopher Calott awarded 2025 CED-American Academy in Rome Research Fellowship

Lalanne Chair of Real Estate Development, Architecture & Urbanism Christopher Calott, AIA, current chair of the Master of Urban Design program, has been selected as the 2025 CED Affiliate Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. His project was selected from a competitive call for proposals to study post-1870 social housing and urbanism in Rome. Calott plans to be in residency at the academy for two months and then travel throughout Italy to complete his research.

The College of Environmental Design–American Academy in Rome Fellowship provides the opportunity for CED faculty or advanced doctoral students to spend eight weeks in residence at the academy, engaging in design and/or research focused on social housing and participating in the intellectual and artistic exchange that the renowned interdisciplinary center cultivates among its international fellows.

This fellowship opportunity is made possible by a gift from Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design Daniel Solomon, FAIA (MArch 1966), and Shirley Sun, together with Robert Davis, founder of Seaside, Florida, and a past recipient of the Rome Prize. The first fellowship, for summer 2024, was awarded to Ben Metcalf, adjunct professor of city and regional planning and managing director of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation.

Calott, who founded the Abbey Master of Real Estate Development + Design program at CED, plans to employ a comparative case study methodology to investigate two social housing estates that represent opposing approaches to planning and delivering social housing at scale in a rapidly urbanizing 20th-century Rome; he will also review two historically significant precedent projects in Milan and Venice.

His research investigation will result in an exhibition at CED in the 2025–2026 academic year that will include newly commissioned aerial photographs, a public lecture, and an academic publication.