Deadline:
February 09, 2025
Location(s)
United States of America Worldwide
Cambridge, MA
Overview
The Wheelwright Prize is an open international competition that awards 100,000 USD to a talented early-career architect to support new forms of architectural research. The annual prize is dedicated to fostering expansive, intensive design research that shows potential to make a significant impact on architectural discourse. We seek individual applicants who are accomplished but emerging, who are resourceful and risk-taking, and who can make the most of this extraordinary opportunity to advance a research project that will have a significant impact on his or her own professional development, and potentially on the discipline of architecture as a whole.
Details
The Wheelwright Prize is an open international competition that awards $100,000 to a talented early-career architect to support an expansive, intensive design research project.
A Brief History of the Wheelwright Prize
Established in 1935 in memory of Arthur W. Wheelwright, Class of 1887, the Wheelwright Prize was originally entitled the Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship. Over the following decades, the fellowship afforded extraordinary experiences for generations of Harvard GSD alumni. The fellowship was conceived at a time when foreign travel was out of reach for many. The prize enabled several early Wheelwright fellows—including Paul Rudolph (1937–38), Eliot Noyes (1939–40), William Wurster (1942–43), and I. M. Pei (1950–51)—to embark on expeditions that largely followed the tradition of the Grand European Tour.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Eligibility
The Wheelwright Prize is open to early-career architects based anywhere in the world.
Applicant must have graduated from a professionally accredited architecture degree program in the past 15 years. (For the 2025 cycle: Graduates prior to February 2010 are ineligible.) Holders of multiple degrees may apply, provided they received their professional degrees between February 2010 and February 2025. Applicants need not be registered or licensed.
Applicants may not have received the Arthur Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship previously.
Winners of the Wheelwright Prize may not hold other fellowships concurrently.
The Wheelwright Prize is available to individual entrants only; teams or firms will not be considered.
Current Harvard GSD faculty, instructors, and staff are not eligible.
For winners based in the United States, some amount of research must be undertaken outside the country.
The Wheelwright Prize is intended for independent study and may not be applied to university tuition. However, the grant may be applied to fees for workshops and conferences.
Dates
Deadline: February 09, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
The Wheelwright Prize is dedicated to advancing original architectural research that shows potential to make a significant impact on architectural discourse. We seek individual applicants who are accomplished but emerging, who are resourceful and risk-taking, and who can make the most of this extraordinary opportunity to advance a research project that will have a significant impact on his or her own professional development, and on the discipline of architecture as a whole.
The winner of the Wheelwright Prize will receive:
- $100,000 prize to support the proposed research project
- Invitation to lecture at Harvard GSD
- Possibility to publish research in a Harvard GSD publication
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
