A student has been awarded the 2017 British School at Rome Giles Worsley Fellowship.
Patrick O’Keeffe, 24, from Cambridge, is a stage 5 MArch student at the University’s Kent School of Architecture (KSA). He wins the opportunity to work in Rome at one of Europe’s top research academies for three months.
Patrick’s research will look at the use of musical harmony as a means of investigating and interpreting architectural harmony in Renaissance Rome. He will begin his Fellowship in October 2017.
He is the second KSA MArch student to win a major national award. In 2014, Keith Diplock joined a select handful of students from the Architectural Association, the Royal College of Art and the Bartlett as the winner of an RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarship.
The British School at Rome Fellowship was inaugurated in honour of Giles Worsley, the distinguished historian of neo-classical architecture. It offers an opportunity for outstanding young architects and architectural historians to experience and learn from the architecture of Rome and to contribute to the lively scholarly atmosphere of the School.