Wheelwright Prize
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| Wheelwright Prize | |
|---|---|
| Current: Mauro Marinelli | |
| Awarded for | Talented early-career architects worldwide proposing exceptional itineraries for research and discovery. |
| Sponsored by | Harvard Graduate School of Design |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Harvard Graduate School of Design |
| Reward | US$100,000 |
| First award | 1936 |
| Website | www |
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]