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.[2]
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
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 comprised Noura Alsayeh, Mira Henry, Mark Lee, Jacob Riedel, Enrique Walker, and Harvard GSD dean Sarah M. Whiting.[8]
Laureates
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] The 1968-1969 laureate, Adèle Naudé Santos, is the first female prize winner.[9]
1936-1940
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
1940-1949
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
1950-1959
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
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