Harvard Announces 2016 Wheelwright Prize Finalists

Established in 1935 as a travel prize offered to the school's top graduates, in 2013 Harvard GSD turned it "into a platform to promote new forms of architectural research informed by cross-cultural engagement," per the Wheelwright Prize website. The generous sum – half that of the Pritzker Architecture Prize – drew 200 applications from 45 countries for the 2016 prize.

The jury (Eve Franch, Jeannie Kim, Kiel Moe, Rafael Moneo, Ben Prosky, K. Michael Hays, Mohsen Mostafavi) selected four finalists, who will present their work and fellowship proposals at the GSD in a public event on 20 April 2016. The finalists are listed below (in alphabetical order, the same as the left-to-right order of their photos above), but more information can be found on the Wheelwright Prize website.

SAMUEL BRAVO — Samuel Bravo Arquitecto, Santiago, Chile 
BArch 2009, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Wheelwright proposal: Cultural Frictions: A Transference, From Traditional Architecture to Contemporary Production 

MATILDE CASSANI — Milan, Italy 
BArch 2005, Politecnico di Milano; Postgraduate degree 2011, Architecture and Urban Culture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; Ph.D. 2013, Spatial Planning and Urban Development, Politecnico di Milano
Wheelwright proposal: Once in a Lifetime: The Architecture of Ritual in Pilgrimage Sites 

ANNA PUIGJANER — MAIO, Barcelona 
BArch 2004, MArch 2008, and Ph.D. 2014, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Architecture de Barcelona-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (ETSAB-UPC)
Wheelwright proposal: Kitchenless City: Architectural Systems for Social Welfare 

PIER PAOLO TAMBURELLI — baukuh architects, Milan and Genoa
MArch 2002, University of Genoa; Advanced MArch 2004, The Berlage Institute
Wheelwright proposal: Wonders of the Modern World