Scott Schlimgen is an architect and the President and founder of Academic Initiatives Abroad and the Director of the AIA Rome Center, where he teaches and organizes programs in many disciplines. He is a Forum on Education Abroad Certified Professional and an architect with an MArch II degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a BArch from the University of Arkansas. His interests include socially responsible design, cultural heritage management and the intersection of history and theory. Since 1990 he has taught at the Boston Architectural Center, Cal Poly State university and has taught or directed Italy programs for Penn State University, the University of Arkansas, Cal Poly, Northeastern University, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Nebraska, the University of Chicago, Texas Tech University, and others. Scott also contributed to and appears in the History Channel’s Emmy Award winning documentary “Rome, Engineering an Empire”.
