Thomas Price

Thomas Price was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1901. He received his B.S. in 1924 from Ohio State University and his MLA in 1926 from Harvard University. He worked as a landscape architect from 1930 to 1939 for the firm of Olmsted Brothers. From 1931 to 1932 he was a Rome Prize Fellow in Landscape Architecture at the American Academy in Rome.While in Rome, Price collaborated with Giuseppe Lugli in new studies at the Villa of Horace, the results of which were published in an article entitled, "A Restoration of Horace's Sabine Villa" in the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 10 (1932) 135ff. Price died in 1989. He is seen on the left in his studio at the American Academy in 1932 with his model of the villa in the foreground and his section through the villa in the background.