{{Short description|International architecture traveling fellowship}} {{Infobox award | name = Wheelwright Prize | current_awards = Mauro Marinelli | image = | caption = | awarded_for = Talented early-career architects worldwide proposing exceptional itineraries for research and discovery. | sponsor = Harvard Graduate School of Design | country = United States | presenter = | reward = US$100,000 | year = {{Start date and age|1936}} | year2 = | website = {{URL|www.wheelwrightprize.org}} }} The '''Wheelwright Architecture Prize''' (formerly known as the '''Arthur C. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship''')<ref>{{Cite web |title=Arthur E. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship in Architecture |url=https://worldwide.harvard.edu/arthur-e-wheelwright-traveling-fellowship-architecture |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=Harvard Worldwide}}</ref> is an international [[architecture]] traveling [[Fellow|fellowship]] presented annually to "talented early-career architects worldwide proposing exceptional itineraries for research and discovery."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Wheelwright Prize |url=https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/architecture/fellowships-prizes-and-travel-programs/wheelwright-prize/ |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=Harvard Graduate School of Design |language=en-US}}</ref> Founded in 1935 by the [[Harvard Graduate School of Design]], the prize is entirely funded by the same institution.<ref name=":3" />
== History == 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Ireland |first=Corydon |date=2013-01-28 |title=Widening the Wheelwright |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/01/widening-the-wheelwright/ |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=Harvard Gazette |language=}}</ref>
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]].<ref name=":0" /> 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|Westwood]], Massachusetts.<ref name=":0" /> 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."<ref name=":0" />
The core idea of the prize was to provide a [[Grand Tour]] experience to graduates at a time when international travel was uncommon.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Dagenais |first=Travis |date=2019-09-10 |title=The Grand Tour: GSD's Wheelwright Prize reminds architects of the power of global research |url=https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2019/09/the-grand-tour-gsds-wheelwright-prize-reminds-architects-of-the-power-of-global-research/ |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=Harvard Graduate School of Design |language=en-US}}</ref>
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.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Madsen |first=Deane |date=2015-04-27 |title=Erik L’Heureux Wins 2015 Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize |url=https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/culture/erik-lheureux-wins-2015-harvard-gsd-wheelwright-prize_o |website=[[Architect Magazine]]}}</ref>
== 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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Capps |first=Kriston |date=2013-05-15 |title=Architect Gia Wolff Wins the Inaugural Wheelwright Prize |url=https://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/architect-gia-wolff-wins-the-inaugural-wheelwright-prize_o |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=[[Architect Magazine]]}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eligibility |url=https://wheelwrightprize.org/eligibility/ |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=Wheelwright Prize |language=en-US}}</ref>
The recipient receives US$100,000 for travel and research-related expenses, which are expected to be spent throughout two years from its announcement.<ref name=":1" /> 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.<ref name=":0" />
The 2024 jury cycle comprised Noura Alsayeh, Mira Henry, [[Mark Lee (architect)|Mark Lee]], Jacob Riedel, Enrique Walker, and Harvard GSD dean [[Sarah Whiting|Sarah M. Whiting]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hickman |first=Matt |date=2023-07-05 |title=Jingru (Cyan) Cheng Named Winner of 2023 Wheelwright Prize {{!}} Architectural Record |url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16366-jingru-cyan-cheng-named-winner-of-2023-wheelwright-prize |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=Architectural Record |language=en}}</ref>
== 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.<ref name=":2" /> The 1968-1969 laureate, [[Adèle Naudé Santos]], is the first female prize winner.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NAUDÉ SANTOS, Adèle-Marie|url=https://artefacts.co.za/main/Buildings/archframes_mob.php?archid=4529|access-date=2024-06-23|website=Artefacts}}</ref>
=== 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 * '''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
=== 1960-1969 === * '''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
=== 1970-1979 === * '''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
=== 1981-1989 === * '''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]]
=== 1990-1999 === * '''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
=== 2000-2009 === * '''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 Architects|Carlos Arnaiz]] * '''2008-2009:''' Mason White * '''2009-2010:''' Ying Zhou
=== 2010-2019 === * '''2010-2011:''' [[Elisa Silva (architect)|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-present === * '''2020:''' Daniel Fernández Pascual * '''2021:''' [[Germane Barnes]] * '''2022:''' [[Marina Otero]] * '''2023:''' Jingru (Cyan) Cheng * '''2024:''' [[Thandi Loewenson]] * '''2025:''' Mauro Marinelli<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mauro Marinelli Wins 2025 Wheelwright Prize for Research on Mountain Architecture Across the Alps, Andes, and Himalayas|url=https://www.archdaily.com/1032963/mauro-marinelli-wins-2025-wheelwright-prize-for-research-on-mountain-architecture-across-the-alps-andes-and-himalayas|website=ArchDaily|date=2025-08-11|access-date=2025-11-30|language=en-US|first=Reyyan|last=Dogan}}</ref>
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