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This Summer, Villa Medici once again opens its historic gardens to architectural imagination with the fourth edition of the Festival des Cabanes. Since its inception in 2022, the event has transformed the French Academy in Rome into an open-air laboratory where architecture, art, and nature converge. Five ephemeral installations - the “cabins” - will offer new perspectives on the relationship between space, ecology, and sustainable living. The selected projects reflect a diversity of origins, generations, and languages: from Associates Architecture’s reflection on viewpoints over the city of Rome, to Atelier MARE’s project focusing on the use of Provence reed. Roger Ballen presents a cloister that blurs the line between reality and fiction, dream and nightmare, while the Huttopia Foundation contributes a modular, demountable cabin inspired by 1950s prefab houses. MBL Architectes has designed a shaded reading pavilion for the occasion. As part of the festival, Villa Medici will unveil to the public the work Panorama of Rome Seen from the Terrace of San Pietro in Montorio, painted in 1779 by architect Louis Le Masson from the Janiculum Hill. Considered the first panorama in art history, this large-scale piece offers a singular, sweeping view of the Eternal City.