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The Wheelwright Architecture Prize (formerly known as the Arthur C. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship)[1] is an international architecture traveling fellowship presented annually to "talented early-career architects worldwide proposing exceptional itineraries for research and discovery."[2] Founded in 1935 by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the prize is entirely funded by the same institution.
| Wheelwright Prize | |
|---|---|
| Current: Jingru (Cyan) Cheng | |
| Awarded for | Talented early-career architects worldwide proposing exceptional itineraries for research and discovery. |
| Sponsored by | Harvard Graduate School of Design |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Harvard Graduate School of Design  |
| Reward(s) | US$100,000 |
| First awarded | 1936 |
| Last awarded | 2023 |
| Website | www |
The Wheelwright Prize was established in 1935 as the Arthur C. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship, and was originally open only to alumni of the Harvard Graduate School of Design.[3]
Arthur C. Wheelwright graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1887. After graduation, he spent a year working in his father's cotton commission house in Boston.[3] However, Wheelwright then pursued a two-year study of architecture in Boston, as Harvard did not yet offer architecture courses. He went on to study art in Paris for three years, faced a period of illness, and ultimately settled into the life of a farmer and part-time artist in Westwood, Massachusetts.[3] Three years after his death in 1932, his widow, Edith F. Wheelwright, honored his life by establishing a fellowship for "travel and study outside the United States."[3]
The core idea of the prize was to provide a Grand Tour experience to graduates at a time when international travel was uncommon.[4]
In 2013, the grant was renamed and reformatted to become an international competition for early-career architects who have graduated from an professionally accredited architectural program within the last 15 years.[5]
The Wheelwright Prize is open to early-career architects based anywhere in the world who have graduated from a professionally accredited architecture degree program in the past 15 years.[6] The fellowship must be granted to individual entrants, and those winners based in the United States, their research must be partially undertaken outside the country.[7]
The recipient receives US$100,000 for travel and research-related expenses, which are expected to be spent throughout two years from its announcement.[4] Along with the money, the recipient is invited to lecture at the school and given the opportunity to appear in a research publication of the same institution.[3]
The 2024 jury cycle comprises Noura Alsayeh, Mira Henry, Mark Lee, Jacob Riedel, Enrique Walker, and Harvard GSD dean Sarah M. Whiting.[8]
The 1968-1969 laureate, Adèle Naudé Santos, was the first female prize winner.[9] Since 2013, non-GSD alumni have been allowed to apply, provided they graduated from a professionally accredited architectural program within the last 15 years.[5]
- 1936-1937: Newton Ellis Griffith, Paul Marvin Rudolph, Walter Egan Trevett, R. Prentice Bradley
- 1937-1938: Constantine A. Pertzoff
- 1938-1939: Walter H.Kilham Jr.
- 1939-1940: Eliot Fette Noyes
- 1940-1941: Leonard James Currie
- 1941-1942: Phillip Emile Joseph
- 1942-1943: Albert Evans Simonson, William W. Wurster
- 1943-1944: Christopher Tunnard
- 1944-1945: Robert William Blachnik, Alvaro Ortega, Theodore Jan Prichard, Helge Westermann
- 1945-1946: William Lindus Cody Wheaton, Kurt Augustus Mumm, Ira Rakatansky, Stanley Salzman
- 1946-1947: Jean Paul Carlhian, Noel Buckland Dant, Martin Daniel Meyerson
- 1947-1948: Joseph Douglas Carroll Jr.
- 1948-1949: Vaughn Papworth Call
- 1949-1950: Henry Louis Horowitz, Jean Claude Mazet, Edward Chase Weren, George Elliot Rafferty
- 1950-1951: I. M. Pei, Jacek von Henneberg, Jerry Neal Leibman
- 1951-1952: Frederick D. Holister, Donald Emanuel Olsen
- 1952-1953: William J. Conklin, Gottfied Paul Csala, Helmut Jacoby, and Edward Stutt
- 1953-1954: Royal Alfred McClure
- 1954-1955: Ferdinand Frederick Bruck
- 1955-1956: Dolf Hermann Schnebli
- 1956-1957: George F. Conley
- 1957-1958: Don Hisaka
- 1958-1959: Paul Mitarachi
- 1959-1960: John C. Haro
- 1960-1961: Donald Craig Freeman
- 1961-1962: Albert Szabo
- 1962-1963: B. Frank Schlesinger
- 1963-1964: Paul Krueger
- 1964-1965: William Morgan
- 1965-1966: Peter Woytok
- 1966-1967: William Lindemulder
- 1967-1968: William H. Liskamm
- 1968-1969: Adèle Naudé Santos
- 1969-1970: Robert Kramer
- 1970-1971: Theodore Liebman
- 1971-1972: Minoru Takeyama
- 1972-1973: Ozdemir Erginsav
- 1973-1974: Klaus Herdeg
- 1974-1975: Alan Chimacoff
- 1976-1977: Corky Poster and Leon J. Goldberg
- 1978-1979: Nelson K. Chen and Susie Kim
- 1979-1980: Nelson K. Chen
- 1981-1982: Hector R. Arce
- 1982-1983: Joanna Lombard
- 1985-1986: Paul John Grayson
- 1986-1987: Christopher Doyle and Frances Hsu
- 1987-1988: Linda Pollak
- 1988-1989: Elizabeth A. Williams
- 1989-1990: Wellington Reiter
- 1990-1991: Holly Getch
- 1991-1992: Roger Sherman
- 1992-1993: Jeffrey A. Murphy
- 1993-1994: Richard M. Sommer
- 1994-1995: Edwin Y. Chan
- 1995-1996: Raveervarn Choksombatchai
- 1996-1997: James Favaro
- 1998-1999: Nana Last
- 1999-2000: Paolo Bercah
- 2000-2001: Farès el-Dahdah
- 2001-2002: Sze Tsung Leong
- 2002-2003: Jeannie Kim
- 2003-2004: Ker-Shing Ong
- 2004-2005: Cecilia Tham
- 2005-2006: Joshua Comaroff
- 2006-2007: Miho Mazereeuw
- 2007-2008: Carlos Arnaiz
- 2008-2009: Mason White
- 2009-2010: Ying Zhou
- 2010-2011: Elisa Silva
- 2013: Gia Wolff
- 2014: Jose M. Ahedo
- 2015: Erik L’Heureux
- 2016: Anna Puigjaner
- 2017: Samuel Bravo
- 2018: Aude-Line Dulière
- 2019: Aleksandra Jaeschke
- 2020: Daniel Fernández Pascual
- 2021: Germane Barnes
- 2022: Marina Otero
- 2023: Jingru (Cyan) Cheng
- 2024: Thandi Loewenson
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