2015 WHEELWRIGHT PRIZE Erik L`HEurEux

April 2015
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2015 WHEELWRIGHT PRIZE
Winner
Erik L’Heureux
Singapore
PRESS RELEASE
Harvard Graduate School of Design Announces
Winner of 2015 Wheelwright Prize
Erik L’Heureux, Singapore-based American architect, wins $100,000
travel grant for his proposal Hot and Wet:
The Equatorial City and the Architectures of Atmosphere
Cambridge, MA — Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) is pleased to announce
that Erik L’Heureux, an American architect based in Singapore, is the winner of the 2015
Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 traveling fellowship aimed at fostering investigative approaches
to contemporary design. L’Heureux, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, is currently an assistant professor
at the National University of Singapore and leads his own practice, Pencil Office. His winning
proposal, Hot and Wet: The Equatorial City and the Architectures of Atmosphere, focuses on
the architecture of five dense cities in the equatorial zone—Jakarta, Indonesia; Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia; Pondicherry, India; Lagos, Nigeria; São Paulo, Brazil—where he will examine traditional
and modern building strategies that mediate extreme climate conditions while addressing the
mounting pressures of rapid urbanization and climate change.
The 2015 Wheelwright Prize Jury—K. Michael Hays (Jury Chair), Craig Evan Barton, Preston Scott
Cohen, Sarah Herda, and Elisa Silva—praised L’Heureux’s accomplishments as an architect, educator,
and author, as well as his research project which will study “modes of atmospheric calibration at the
urban scale,” and architecture’s historic and potential response to a range of atmospheres (hot, wet,
humid, breezy, artificial, hermetic, and more) while taking into account related social, political, and
environmental concerns. The $100,000 grant will fund L’Heureux’s travel-based research over the next
two years.
The Wheelwright Prize is now in its third year as an open international competition for early-career
architects. The 2015 cycle received nearly 200 submissions from 51 countries, including Azerbaijan,
Bosnia, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Poland, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Zimbabwe, and more.
This year, the jury honored three finalists—L’Heureux, Malkit Shoshan (Amsterdam), and Quynh Vantu
(London)—inviting them to present their work and research proposals in a public event at Harvard
GSD. (See below for more information about Shoshan and Vantu.) The finalists’ presentations, as well
as a lecture by Gia Wolff, winner of the 2013 Wheelwright Prize, took place in Piper Auditorium at
Harvard GSD on April 16, 2015, and are viewable at www.gsd.harvard.edu, under the Media section.
“We commend L’Heureux, Shoshan, and Vantu, who are each working impressively to
broaden the definition and possibilities of architectural practice,” remarked K. Michael Hays,
Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at
Harvard GSD. “L’Heureux is an example of an architect with a strong practice who has
developed a serious intellectual project that relates organically to his own work. His proposal
is not just about technology and efficiency, but deals with the politicization of ecologies and
economies in a complicated region and architecture’s complicity in difficult global issues.”
Born in Jamestown, Rhode Island, L’Heureux received his BA in Architecture from Washington
University in St. Louis in 1996 and his MArch from Princeton University in 2000. He went on to
work for several architecture firms in New York, including Perkins + Will, GW Architects, and Agrest
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and Gandelsonas, and taught at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union.
After stints as a visiting fellow and lecturer at the School of Design and Environment at the National
University of Singapore (NUS) in 2003 and 2004, he decided to move to Singapore fulltime in 2007. In
2011 and 2012, he co-organized an international overseas architecture program between Washington
University, the National University of Singapore, and Tongji University, researching the cities of Hong
Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore.
His practice, Pencil Office, has realized an assortment of projects, including residences, restaurants,
offices, and commercial and retail spaces, primarily in Southeast Asia. His project, A Simple Factory
Building (completed in 2012), a 10,625-square-foot structure wrapped in a geometrically sophisticated
sun-shielding veil, earned top honors in the 2013 World Architecture Festival (WAF) Category Design
Award. He is also the recipient of the FuturArc Green Leadership Architecture Merit Award (2013), AIA
New York City Design Merit Award (2012), and two AIA New York State Design Awards (2007 and
2009). He has received the Teaching Excellence Award from NUS every year from 2008 to 2013.
In addition to teaching and practice, L’Heureux is an active writer and curator. He co-curated and
designed the exhibition 1,000 Singapores: A Model of the Compact City for the Singapore Pavilion at
the 12th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (2010), which was recognized with
the 2011 President’s Design Award from Singapore. Recently, he redesigned the exhibition for the Cité
de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, where it will appear from June to September 2015. His work
and writings have been widely published and he is contributing editor to Architectural Review Asia
Pacific. His book Deep Veils, about building enclosures in tropical climates, was released last year by
ORO Editions.
Wheelwright Prize 2015 Finalists
Malkit Shoshan, BArch 2004, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology; PhD candidate TU Delft–Delft
University of Technology. Wheelwright Proposal: Architecture and Conflict: Pre-Cycling the Compound
Malkit Shoshan is the founder of the Amsterdam-based architectural think tank FAST. Her work
explores the relationship between architecture, politics, and human rights. She is the author of Atlas
of Conflict: Israel-Palestine (Uitgeverij 010, 2010) and coauthor of Village: One Land Two Systems
and Platform Paradise (Damiani Editore, 2014). Her work has been published in Volume, Abitare,
Frame, Haaretz, New York Times, and other publications. She has exhibited at the Venice Architecture
Biennale (2002, 2008), the Netherlands Architecture Institute (2007), Experimenta (2011), and the Het
Nieuwe Instituut (2014).
Quynh Vantu, BArch 2001, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; MArch 2009,
Cranbrook Academy of Art; PhD candidate at the Bartlett School of Architecture–University College
London. Wheelwright Proposal: On Movement: The Threshold and Its Shaping of Culture and Spatial
Experience
Quynh Vantu is a licensed architect with a studio-based practice devoted to spatial experimentation.
Raised in the American South, Vantu is interested in hospitality and thresholds of social interaction. She
has received numerous awards and grants, including a Worldstudio AIGA Grant (2009), Stewardson
Kefee LeBrun Travel Grant–AIA NY (2009–10), and Fulbright Fellowship (2012–13). She has won
several residencies, including the Gyeonggi Creation Center in Dabudo, South Korea (2012); the
McColl Center for Art and Innovation in Charlotte, North Carolina (2014); and the Norrköping AIR in
Sweden (2014).
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Wheelwright Prize 2015 Jury K. Michael Hays: Jury Chair is Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory and Associate Dean of
Academic Affairs at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Hays was the founder of the scholarly
journal Assemblage and the first adjunct curator of architecture at the Whitney Museum of American
Art (2000 to 2009). His research and scholarship focus on European modernism and critical theory.
He is a member of the Wheelwright Prize organizing committee.
Craig Evans Barton is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Director of the Design
School at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. He is the editor
of Sites of Memory: Perspectives on Architecture and Race (2001) and has contributed to several
anthologies including City of Memories (2004) and Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader (2008). His
work has been included in a wide range of exhibitions, including an installation at Project Row Houses
in Houston (2001), which explored the use of the shotgun house as a memoir of African-American life
and culture; and the traveling exhibition The Dresser Trunk Project (2008), about places of refuge for
African-American travelers during the Jim Crow era.
Preston Scott Cohen is the Gerald M. McCue Professor in Architecture at Harvard GSD where he
was Chair from 2008 to 2013. His Cambridge-based firm, Preston Scott Cohen, Inc., is recognized
for the design of important cultural and educational institutions. Cohen has received numerous
awards and honors, including induction as an academician at the National Academy of Art, Architect
magazine’s Annual Design Review Award, and five Progressive Architecture Awards. He is the author
of Contested Symmetries and Other Predicaments in Architecture (2001) and coeditor with Erika
Naginksi of The Return of Nature: Sustaining Architecture in the Face of Sustainability (2014). Lightfall,
a publication accompanying a recent exhibition on Cohen’s design of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, is
forthcoming.
Sarah Herda is the Director of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts in
Chicago, a private foundation committed to awarding project-based grants to individuals and
institutions working at the forefront of architecture, and producing programs that promote
architecture’s role in the arts, culture and society. She is the Co-artistic Director of the inaugural
Chicago Architecture Biennial, which will open in October 2015. The Biennial will be the largest
survey of contemporary architecture in North America. From 1998 until 2006, Herda was director
and curator of the Storefront for Art and Architecture, an experimental exhibition space in
New York City.
Elisa Silva is the Founder of Enlace Arquitectura and professor at the Simón Bolívar University in
Caracas, Venezuela. Her firm has received several awards: Her Ecoparque Maracay won first prize
at the XI National Architecture Biennial Caracas (unbuilt category) in 2014; and her Sabana Grande
Boulevard won the VIII Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Cadiz in 2012. Both of
these projects were first-place winners in competitions (the Maracay Metropolitan Park in 2011 and
Sabana Grande Boulevard in 2008). Silva, who received her MArch I from Harvard GSD in 2002, won
the Arthur C. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship in 2011 with her proposal on public space-making
initiatives in the slums of several Latin American cities.
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Organizing Committee
Mohsen Mostafavi is an architect, educator, and Dean of Harvard University Graduate School
of Design and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design. His work focuses on modes
and processes of urbanization and the interface between technology and aesthetics. He serves
on the steering committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and the board of the Van Alen
Institute, and consults on numerous international design and urban projects. His publications include
Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic Landscape (2004) and Ecological Urbanism (2010).
Jorge Silvetti, Nelson Robinson, Jr., is Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate
School of Design, a principal of Machado Silvetti and the recipient of numerous awards, including
ten Progressive Architecture Awards, and his writings have appeared in all the major international
architectural publications. He has been teaching at Harvard GSD since 1975 and served as chair of
the Department of Architecture from 1995 to 2002. He was a juror of the Pritzker Architecture Prize
from 1996 to 2004. He is a member of the Wheelwright Prize organizing committee.
Benjamin Prosky is Assistant Dean for Communications at Harvard University Graduate School
of Design. In 2009 he cofounded ARCHITIZER, the first professional and social networking website
for architecture. Until May 2011 he was the Director of Special Events and External Affairs at
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. From 2002 to
2005, he was head of public and university programs at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in
Montreal, Canada, and from 1999 to 2002 he was an exhibitions coordinator at the Institut Français
d’Architecture in Paris.
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Jurors’ Comments K. Michael Hays: “What stands out about Erik L’Heureux is his commitment to research as essential
to advancing his practice. He made a conscious decision to situate his practice and teaching in
Singapore in order to deepen his understanding of the relations of architectural form to climate, which
he began investigating while still a student at Princeton. Looking at his work and reading his proposal,
one notes an organic connection that draws together the different dimensions of his work—written,
drawn, built—and reveals a motivation that is not only conceptual but deeply social as well. For Erik, the
equatorial cities are a weave of ecologies and economies, and architecture a connecting thread.”
Craig Evan Barton: “Erik L’Heureux’s design work draws upon his experience as an architect, teacher,
and artist. His research proposal deftly balances his interests in the invisible phenomena of equatorial
regions and their interpretation through design and the craft of building. His proposal had an admirable
clarity, despite also having a complex intellectual agenda and challenging itinerary, and provided the jury
with confidence that his ‘findings’ will offer fresh insight for critical practice around the world.”
Preston Scott Cohen: “Architecture becomes most didactic and revelatory when it confronts
extreme conditions. Extremes demand ingenuity and necessitate innovation. This is the sensibility Erik
L’Heureux is interested in. Yet the extremes that he proposes to study are not just a series of abstract
or esoteric anomalies. Rather, they characterize a huge swath of the world that is developing rapidly,
with far-reaching social consequences. It is rare to find an architect who has made such a personal and
intellectual commitment to a tectonic architectural project and to studying it within the context of so
many cultures.”
Sarah Herda: “Erik L’Heureux’s research proposal possessed a specificity that shows his profound
knowledge of his subject as well as a refreshing anticipation of new discoveries. I hope that the
Wheelwright experience will allow him to venture far, and encounter unexpected conditions and ideas
that will help him shape this timely research proposal and introduce it to practice, where we believe it
will have a significant impact.”
Elisa Silva: “Erik L’Heureux has put together a meticulously choreographed journey along the equatorial
zone that will take him across three different continents, to visit and learn from specific modern
buildings where hot and wet climatic conditions have been seamlessly considered in their design.
Today, such formal characteristics are significantly underrepresented in building production in hot and
humid cities, despite the fact that weather patterns suggest that extreme conditions will only become
more pervasive and further exacerbated in the future. This makes Erik´s research (and hopefully future
dissemination) very pertinent and almost indispensible for contemporary architectural discourse
and practice.”
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Winner’s Portfolio
A Simple Factory Building
Singapore, 2009–12
For a 10,675-square-foot
factory building in an
industrial part of Singapore,
L’Heureux designed a factory
and warehouse with a brisesoleil made of lightweight
EIFS (exterior insulation and
finishing system) that wraps
the architecture in section
to modulate temperature,
breeze, and atmosphere.
The complex geometry was
achieved through CNC
milling. With its deep profile,
the veil produces significant
shading and deflects rain
from the building proper.
The pattern tightens at the
lower levels to minimize
views onto the industrial
activities of the street below.
A covered entry leads to
an open cross-ventilated
ground floor; together, these
operate as an atmospheric
funnel, bringing ventilation,
smells, and sounds from
the surrounding city into
to the vertical courtyard at
the building’s core, linking
exterior to interior, street to
foyer, sun to shade.
Consultants: Arya Architects
(Singapore QP), HS
Engineering Consultants,
K L Au Consultants.
Photo Credit: Kenneth Choo
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1,000 Singapores
Venice, Italy, 2010
L’Heureux co-curated and
designed a 35-meterlong tube fabricated with
lightweight EIFS ventilation
blocks. The profile tapers
in section from a rectangle
shape at the entry, referring
to the ubiquitous Singapore
housing authority “flat,” to
a pitched-roof house form
at its opposite end, facing
the Venice Canal. The tube
operates as an atmospheric
straw, bringing ventilation,
smells, and sounds from the
canal to the inner courtyard.
Co-curators: Khoo Peng
Beng, Belinda Huang and
Florian Schaetz.
Photo credit: Jing Quek
Hut House
Singapore, 2013–15
This single-family home was
inserted on a compound
of three houses for a
multigenerational family.
A continuous aluminum
thermal veil folded in
relief covers opaque and
transparent surfaces alike,
rendering the residential
architecture as a discrete,
almost toylike object. It has
four protrusions which give
the impression of the veil
being stretched and pulled.
The reduction of materials,
tones, and volumetric
complexity help to amplify
the presence of the veil
and the importance of the
envelope.
Consultants: AKDA
Architects (Singapore QP),
KKC Consultancy Services.
Photo Credit: Khoo Guo Jei
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Pile Houses
Malaysia, 2010–12
This house is calibrated to
an existing abandoned pile
field, left in the wake of the
1990s Asian financial crisis.
“Piles” refers to building
foundations as they are
created in Malaysia, and
they establish the structural
direction of the architecture
to follow. L’Heureux
designed the master plan
to revive this residential
development, where this
house is one of 26. (He also
designed the landscape
and architecture for six
units.) The design of this
house takes advantage of
the pile field with a column
structure that repurposes
the existing foundation.
The result is a robust and
climatically calibrated
architecture. The upper
volumes of the architecture
are tightly screened with
waterjet-cut operable
panels. The tapering roof
forms bring filtered light
into the interior spaces
from above while operating
as thermal chimneys. The
upper volumes are painted
with iron filings and will rust
to a dark color over time,
aging the building mass
while minimizing glare from
the inescapable bleaching
power of the equatorial sun.
Consultants: DC Arkitek (M)
& Rakan Rakan (Malaysian
QP), Jurukur Cem, Kong &
Associates Consultants Sdn
Bhd, Jurutera JRK Sdn. Bhd
Civil & Structural Engineers.
Photo Credit: Sanjay Kewlani
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Stereoscopic House
Singapore, 2007–12
L’Heureux’s design for
a 7,600-square-foot
waterfront villa for three
sisters combines references
to Singapore shophouse
and colonial bungalow
typologies. Located on
the Singapore Straits, the
architecture manipulates
the relationship between
atmosphere, water,
landscape, and view through
four levels of optical and
thermal calibration. A tight
site inspired a stacked
approach and the concept
of the architecture as a lens
to focus views. The façade
features operable veiled
panels with a custom CNCcut perforation pattern
designed to allow light,
ventilation, and views, as
well as privacy from within.
They flank a long tapering
veranda on the west and
east elevations. The exterior
timber cladding is designed
to age to a silver hue,
increasing the building’s
reflectivity and reducing
its heat gain. Inside, an air
well spans the four floors,
operating as an atmospheric
positive, bringing light and
ventilation to the core of the
house.
Consultants: HK Hia &
Associates (Singapore QP),
TEP Consultants Pte Ltd,
DMS Consulting Engineers,
PQS Consultants.
Photo Credit: Daniel Sheriff
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Past Wheelwright Prize Winners
2014
Jose M. Ahedo, BArch 2005, Escola Tècnica Superior
d’Arquitectura de la Universitat de Catalunya;
MArch II 2008, Harvard GSD
Research Domesticated Grounds: Design and Domesticity
Within Animal Farming Systems
2013
Gia Wolff, MArch 2008, Harvard GSD
Research Floating City: The Community-Based
Architecture of Parade Floats
2010–2011
Elisa Silva
MArch ‘02
Interpreting Design Knowledge
Through Latin American Slum
Upgrading Efforts
1995–1996
Raveervarn
Choksombatchai
MArch ‘87
Seam: Connecting Spatial Fabric
2009–2010
Ying Zhou
MArch ‘07
Urban Loopholes and Pragmatist
Landscapes: Spatial Productions and
the Shanghai Expo 2010
1994–1995
Edwin Y. Chan
MArch’85
The Glass Building Revisited
2008–2009
Mason White
MArch ‘01
Meltdown: Thawing Geographies in
Arctic Russia
1993–1994
Richard M. Sommer
MArch ‘88
Traces of the Iron Curtain: A Creative
Redescription
2007–2008
Carlos Arnaiz
MArch ‘03
Four Experiments in Urbanism:
The Modern University City in Latin
America
1992–1993
Jeffrey A. Murphy
MArch ‘86
Housing Courtyards of the Amsterdam
School
1991–1992
2006–2007
Miho Mazereeuw
MArch/MLA ‘02
Post-Disaster Architecture
and Urbanism: 3 Cities along the
Ring of Fire
Roger Sherman
MArch ‘85
The Simulation of Nature: Alvar Aalto and
the Architecture of Mise-en-scène
1990–1991
Holly Getch
MArch ‘91
2005–2006
Joshua Comaroff
MArch/MLA ‘01
The Archaeology of Afro-Modernism
Conventions of Representation and
Strategies of Urban Space from the 18th
to the Early 20th Centuries: Juvarra,
Repton, Schinkel, Le Corbusier
2004–2005
Cecilia Tham
MArch ‘02
The Roundabout Spectacle
1989–1990
Wellington Reiter
MArch ‘86
The Walled City Reconsidered: A Study of
Roman Passage Architecture
2003–2004
Ker-Shing Ong
MArch/MLA ‘02
A City in Miniature
1988–1989
Elizabeth A.
Williams
MArch ‘85
Event, Place, Precedent: The Urban
Festival in Western Europe
2002–2003
Jeannie Kim
MArch ‘00
Stuck in the Middle Again
1987–1988
Linda Pollak
MArch ‘85
The Picturesque Promenade: Temporal
Order in the Space of Modernism
2001–2002
Sze Tsung Leong
MArch ‘98
Endangered Spaces: The Casualties of
Chinese Modernization
1986–1987
Christopher Doyle
MArch ‘85
Sequence and Microsequence: Urban
Drama in Baroque Italy
2000–2001
Farès el-Dahdah
MArch ‘96
Utopian Superblocks: The Evolution of
Brasilia’s 1,200 Housing Slabs Since
1960
Frances Hsu
MArch ‘85
Transformation of the Landscape in
Modernism: Gardens of Alvar Aalto and
Le Corbusier
1999–2000
Paolo Bercah
MAUD ‘89
DDES ‘92
Architecture/Celebration
1985–1986
Paul John Grayson
MArch ‘56
Housing and Lifecare Facilities Planning
and Design for the Elderly in Japan, Israel,
Europe
1998–1999
Nana Last
MArch ‘86
Cartesian Grounds: The Extended
Planes of Modernism
1982–1983
Joanna Lombard
MArch ‘77
1996–1997
James Favaro
MArch ‘82
The Influence of Underground
Transportation on the Development
of Cities
American Gardens and the European
Precedent: A Design Analysis of Public
Space and Cultural Translation
1981–1982
Hector R. Arce
MArch ‘77
The Grid as Underlying Structure:
A Study of the Urbanism of Gridded Cities
in Latin America
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1979–1980
Nelson K. Chen
MArch ‘78
Indigenous Patterns of Housing and
Processes of Urban Development in
Europe and Southeast Asia
1978–1979
Susie Kim
MAUD, ‘77
Time-Lapse Architecture in Sicily
1976–1977
Corky Poster
MArch ‘73
Housing Facilities for the Elderly:
A Cross-Cultural Study
1974–1975
Alan Chimacoff
MArch ‘68
An Investigation of the Relationship
Between Architecture and Urban Design
of Significant European Urban Centers
and their Exploration of Formal,
Spatial, Geometric, Proportional, and
Scalar Characteristics
Leon J. Goldberg
MArch ‘72
1973–1974
Klaus Herdeg
MAUD ‘64
1955–1956
Dolf Hermann Schnebli
MArch ‘54
Martin Daniel Meyerson
MCP ‘49
1972–1973
Ozdemir Erginsav
MArch ‘61,
MAUD ‘63
1954–1955
Ferdinand Frederick Bruck
1953–1954
Royal Alfred McClure
MArch ‘47
Kurt Augustus Mumm
BCP ‘46
1952–1953
William J. Conklin
MArch ‘50
Ira Rakatansky
MArch ‘46
Gottfied Paul Csala
BArch ‘54
Stanley Salzman
MArch ‘46
1945–1946
William Lindus Cody Wheaton
1971–1972
Minoru Takeyama
MArch ‘60
1970–1971
Theodore Liebman
MArch ‘63
1969–1970
Robert Kramer
MArch ‘60
1968–1969
Adele Marie de Souza Santos
MAUD ‘63
1967–1968
William H. Liskamm
MArch ‘56
1966–1967
William
Lindemulder
MArch ‘58
1965–1966
Peter Woytok
MArch ‘62
1964–1965
William Morgan
MArch ‘58
Jacek von Henneberg
MArch ‘51
1963–1964
Paul Krueger
MArch ‘59
Jerry Neal Leibman
1941–1942
Phillip Emile Joseph
1962–1963
B. Frank
Schlesinger
MArch ‘54
Henry Louis Horowitz
MArch ‘50
1940–1941
Leonard James Currie
MArch ‘38
Jean Claude Mazet
MArch ‘50
1939–1940
Eliot Fette Noyes
MArch ‘38
Edward Chase Weren
1938–1939
George Elliot Rafferty
MArch ‘50
Walter H. Kilham, Jr.
MArch ‘28
1937–1938
Constantine A. Pertzoff
1936–1937
Newton Ellis Griffith
Helmut Jacoby
BArch ‘54
1951–1952
1950–1951
1949–1950
Alvaro Ortega
MArch ‘45
Frederick D. Holister
MArch ‘53
Theodore Jan Prichard
MArch ‘44
Donald Emanuel Olsen
MArch ‘46
Helge Westermann
MArch ‘48
Ieoh Ming Pei
MArch ‘46
Albert Szabo
MArch ‘52
1960–1961
Donald Craig Freeman
MArch ‘57
1959–1960
John C. Haro
MArch ‘55
1948–1949
Vaughn Papworth Call
MRP ‘49
1958–1959
Paul Mitarachi
MArch ‘50
1947–1948
1957–1958
Don Hisaka
MArch ‘53
Joseph Douglas
Carroll, Jr.
MCP ‘47
1956–1957
George F. Conley
BArch ‘53
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Robert William Blachnik
MArch ‘45
Edward Stutt
MArch ‘53
1961–1962
1946–1947
1944–1945
Jean Paul Carlhian
MCP ‘47
Noel Buckland Dant
MRP ‘48
1943–1944
Christopher Tunnard
1942–1943
Albert Evans Simonson
William W. Wurster
Paul Marvin Rudolph
MArch ‘47
Walter Egan Trevett
1935–1936
RPrentice Bradley
MArch ‘33
The Wheelwright Prize is an update of the
Arthur Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship, which
was established in 1935 and previously available
to Harvard GSD alumni. The original prize was
conceived at a time when few architects traveled
abroad, and for many early recipients—including
Paul Rudolph, Eliot Noyes, William Wurster, and
I. M. Pei—the fellowship financed travels that
followed the tradition of the Grand European
Tour. In 2013, the school decided to open the
prize to architects practicing anywhere in the
world, recognizing the more fluid flow
of ideas and talent across the globe today, and
the necessity of new forms of architectural
research to developing new modes of
architectural practice.
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