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Wheelwright Prize

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Wheelwright Prize
Current: Jingru (Cyan) Cheng
Awarded forTalented early-career architects worldwide proposing exceptional itineraries for research and discovery.
Sponsored byHarvard Graduate School of Design
CountryUnited States
Presented byHarvard Graduate School of Design Edit this on Wikidata
Reward(s)US$100,000
First awarded1936; 88 years ago (1936)
Last awarded2023
Websitewww.wheelwrightprize.org

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.

History

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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]

Eligibility

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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]

Laureates

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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

References

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  1. ^ "Arthur E. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship in Architecture". Harvard Worldwide. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
  2. ^ "Wheelwright Prize". Harvard Graduate School of Design. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
  3. ^ a b c d e Ireland, Corydon (2013-01-28). "Widening the Wheelwright". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
  4. ^ a b Dagenais, Travis (2019-09-10). "The Grand Tour: GSD's Wheelwright Prize reminds architects of the power of global research". Harvard Graduate School of Design. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
  5. ^ a b Madsen, Deane (2015-04-27). "Erik L'Heureux Wins 2015 Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize". Architect Magazine.
  6. ^ Capps, Kriston (2013-05-15). "Architect Gia Wolff Wins the Inaugural Wheelwright Prize". Architect Magazine. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
  7. ^ "Eligibility". Wheelwright Prize. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
  8. ^ Hickman, Matt (2023-07-05). "Jingru (Cyan) Cheng Named Winner of 2023 Wheelwright Prize | Architectural Record". Architectural Record. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
  9. ^ "NAUDÉ SANTOS, Adèle-Marie". Artefacts. Retrieved 2024-06-23.