Visiting Faculty Cory Henry Wins Rome Prize in Architecture

We’re thrilled to share that 2025 visiting faculty member Cory Henry has been awarded the 2025-2026 Rome Prize in Architecture by the American Academy in Rome.  

Principal and Founder of Atelier Cory Henry in Los Angeles, Cory Henry was awarded the Rome Prize Fellowship for the project "Borders of Belonging: Rome’s Public Spaces as Arenas of Democracy and Dissent.” During his time as a Visiting Faculty member at UTSOA in the Spring 2025 semester, Henry taught an advanced studio titled “Third Space,” which engaged with the layered history of the once-thriving educational hub of Brownsville in South Atlanta, Georgia. Drawing from Ray Oldenburg’s concept of “Third Space” as informal social inclusion spaces and Homi Bhabha’s idea of a hybrid space where cultural identities interact, overlap, and are negotiated, this studio approached design as both a connection to context and a provocation for transformation. Continuing his analysis on sites of social intersection, Henry’s Rome Prize project "Borders of Belonging: Rome’s Public Spaces as Arenas of Democracy and Dissent” will present compelling research completed during the fellowship. 

For one hundred thirty years, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. This prestigious award equips artists and scholars with the time, space, setting, and collaborative peer network to explore and create in Rome while expanding the boundaries of their disciplines. The thirty-five recipients will reside at the Academy’s eleven-acre grounds in the Eternal City for five to ten months, starting this September.  

Join us in congratulating Cory Henry on this well-deserved honor!