Bourse – Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – "Résidence de recherche et de création en architecture à Rome"
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“Depuis trois ans, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec offre une bourse de 5 000 $ pour réaliser une résidence de recherche et de création en architecture à la British School at Rome. Celle-ci se déroulera de janvier à mars 2011 dans cette prestigieuse institution qui accueille des professionnels de l’architecture de partout dans le monde. La date limite d’inscription est le 15 septembre 2010.
« Durant mon séjour à la British School at Rome, j’ai rencontré plusieurs chercheurs, historiens, archéologues, artistes et architectes. Ces rencontres m’ont permis d’approfondir mes connaissances et d’enrichir mon sujet de recherche. Ce fut également une excellente occasion de développer certaines idées qui exigent du temps de recherche et d’essai et de participer à deux expositions de grande qualité. » Pierre Gendron, architecte québécois”
“History of the British School at Rome:
The first foreign academy in Rome, l’Académie de France, was founded in 1666 by Louis XIV’s minister Colbert to promote the study of art, and has been lodged since Napoleon in the Villa Medici. The movement to create national institutions to promote research belongs to the second half of the nineteenth century, in the context of the creation of Rome as capital city of the new nation state, and the boom in archaeological discoveries that came with Rome’s expansion. The German (initially Prussian) Archaeological Institute was founded in 1871 on the basis on an earlier international centre (from 1829); the Ecole Française from 1873 offered a base for French research in addition to the centre for artists at the Villa Medici. The model was followed by Austria (1881), the USA (1894), Hungary (1894), Britain (1901), Holland (1904), Spain (1910), Sweden (1925), Poland (1927), Romania (1931), Belgium (1939), Finland (1954), Denmark (1956) and Canada (1978). The International Union of Institutes of Archaeology, History and History of Art, itself founded after WWII (1946) to promote international cooperation between the institutes, currently numbers (in addition to 10 Italian institutes), numbers 23 institutes from 18 different countries.
The proposal for establishing a research centre in Rome for British scholars came in 1898 from a group of classical scholars led by Henry Pelham, Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University, who wished to establish ‘some simple form of organisation for the assistance of British Students in Rome’. From the first they insisted that the focus of the School should not be limited to Classical Archaeology, but that it should be ‘in the most comprehensive sense, a School of Roman and Italian Studies. Every period of the language and literature, antiquities, art, and history of Rome and Italy shall be considered as coming within the province of the School.’ “
(Source: Aimée Kassi, Adjointe aux programmes studios et ateliers-résidences, Direction de la musique, de la danse et de l’action territoriale, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec)