Wheelwright Prize 2023 for Early-Career Architects Worldwide

 The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is pleased to announce the 2021 cycle of the Wheelwright Prize. This open international competition awards $100,000 to a talented early-career architect to support travel-based research.

The Wheelwright Prize is a $100,000 travel-based research grant awarded annually to early-career architects who have demonstrated exceptional design talent, produced work of scholarly and professional merit, and show promise for continued creative work.

• Table of Content
• About Wheelwright Prize
• Wheelwright Prize
• Aim and Benefits of Wheelwright Prize
• Requirements for Wheelwright Prize Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Wheelwright Prize
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Wheelwright Prize

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.... continue reading

Wheelwright Prize

Aim and Benefits of Wheelwright Prize

The winner of the Wheelwright Prize will receive:

• $100,000 cash prize to support travel and research-related costs
• invitation to lecture at Harvard GSD
• possibility to publish research in a Harvard GSD publication

Requirements for Wheelwright Prize Qualification

The Wheelwright Prize is open to emerging architects practicing worldwide. The primary eligibility requirement is that applicants must have received a degree from a professionally accredited architecture program in the past 15 years. An affiliation to the GSD is not required. Applicants are asked to submit a portfolio, a research proposal, and a travel itinerary that takes them outside their country of residence.

• Applicant must have graduated from a professionally accredited architecture degree program in the past 15 years. (Graduates before January 2007 are ineligible). Holders of multiple degrees may apply, provided they received their professional degrees between January 2007 and January 2022. 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, 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.

Interview date, Process and Venue for Wheelwright Prize

Applicants will be judged on the quality of their design work, scholarly accomplishments, originality or persuasiveness of the research proposal, and evidence of ability to fulfill the proposed project. Applications are accepted online only, at wheelwrightprize.org.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

 The application process is entirely online. No submissions will be accepted by mail. There is no fee to submit applications.

For more dtails, visit Wheelwright Prize website.