© Atelier POEM

Ever since Napoleon took possession of the Villa Medici, it has been home to the French Academy in Rome, an institution that continues to take in gifted pensionnaires, and in addition to that, has set in motion a festival involving a competition for the honor of building small caprices in the beautiful gardens. One is by POEM, a duo whose design is a hypostyle construction that exudes serenity and timelessness, like the view that Velázquez painted there...[+]