Harvard GSD 2017 Wheelwright Prize - Travel-Based Research Grants

  •  Phd, Grant, Contest
  •  31-Jan-2017
  •   Worldwide
  • $$  Fully Funded

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

The Wheelwright Prize is open to emerging architects practicing anywhere in the world. The Wheelwright Prize is intended to spur innovative research during the early stage of an architect’s professional career. Now open to applicants from all over the world—no affiliation to Harvard GSD required—the prize aims to foster new forms of research informed by cross-cultural engagement.

Applicants are asked to submit a portfolio, a research proposal, and a travel itinerary that takes them outside their country of residence. Applicants will be judged on the quality of their design work, scholarly accomplishments, originality and persuasiveness of their research proposal, and evidence of ability to fulfill the proposed project.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Applicant must have graduated from a professionally accredited architecture degree program in the past 15 years. (Graduates prior to 2002 are ineligible.) Holders of multiple degrees may apply, provided they received their professional degrees between 2002 and January 2017. 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.
  • Winners are expected to spend a minimum of 6 months (cumulative) outside of their countries of residence in order to conduct their proposed research.
  • Proposed research itineraries must not include sites in the United States. Research and travel must commence within 12 months of receiving the Wheelwright Prize and must be completed within two years of receiving the prize.
  • 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.

Offered Benefits

The winner will be selected via an open call for proposals and a rigorous review process. 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.

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