Sydney–born, Rome–based architect Carl Pickering is one half of wildly successful, globally-minded practice Lazzarini Pickering Architetti.

Rome

"We’re also just across the bridge from Via Giulia and we love Piazza Farnese, there’s no doubt it’s one of our favorite squares. There’s a bar there that’s a great place to have a coffee and a restaurant we love called Ar Galletto that has both fish and great pasta."

Piazza Farnese

"In the next square along Campo de’ Fiori, we have La Carbonara, which as one could imagine, has fantastic carbonara. Campo de’ Fiori also has fantastic food shops including a delicatessen, butcher and great grocer."

Campo de’ Fiori

"Near us, there are some great galleries including the contemporary gallery Galleria Lorcan O'Neill. We’re great lovers of Richard Long’s work which they have, they also have Anselm Kiefer, Kiki Smith, Tracey Emin, as well as some younger Italian artists."

Galleria Lorcan O’Neill Roma

"Monitor, in particular, focuses on young contemporary Italian artists. That’s really what we follow, so Monitor is definitely one of our favorite galleries."

Monitor

"I cried when I first went into the Pantheon in the 1980s. We haven’t been able to get there when it’s been snowing, but that’s our ideal time to see it: with snow coming through the hole. It’s such a feat of engineering and it really is exorbitant."

Pantheon

"Teatro di Marcello is a favorite. You can see people literally living in an amphitheater. It’s a building that sums up what happens when one decides, in the Middle Ages or in the Renaissance, to live within ancient Roman architecture. There’s also a wonderful 1970s stratification in the internal redesign."

Teatro di Marcello