TRAVEL TALK

A TRIP TO ROME YIELDS WALKING AS ART AND RESEARCH.

INTERVIEW BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER

Rachel Valenziano, ASLA, an associate at TEN x TEN Landscape Architecture and Urbanism, is the inaugural recipient of the Roger Bond Martin Travel Prize, a $10,000 fellowship established by the ASLA Minnesota Chapter and the University of Minnesota that is awarded to one emerging landscape architect per year. Valenziano recently returned from Rome, where her project focused on the “everyday and the in-between.” Why Rome? I [chose Rome] because every inch of the city has such a rich sort of—“lasagna” is what they call it, unironically—history, and of politics, and of change. I wasn’t taking any transportation; I wasn’t riding a bike or taking a bus. I was only looking at things within walking distance, and I knew that anywhere I went there would be a meaningful story that I could start…

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Landscape Architecture (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2024

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