Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD)
Application
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is pleased to announce the third edition of the Wheelwright Prize, an open international competition that awards 100,000 USD to a talented early career architect to support travel-based research. The 2015 Wheelwright Prize will begin accepting applications online on January 5; the deadline for submissions is January 30. This annual prize is dedicated to fostering new forms of architectural research informed by cross-cultural engagement. Today's Wheelwright Prize is open to emerging architects practicing anywhere in the world. The primary eligibility requirement is that applicants must have received a degree from a professionally accredited architecture program in the past 15 years (after 2000). 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. An international jury will be announced in January 2015. The Wheelwright Prize's organizing committee includes Harvard GSD Dean Mohsen Mostafavi, professors K. Michael Hays and Jorge Silvetti, and Assistant Dean Benjamin Prosky. Please refer to the website for updates. Finalists and a winner will be named in April 2015. Application period: January 5-30, 2015