Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize Winner, Young Architects Contest 2019, Travelling Fellowship
Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize 2019
International competition for early-career architects to win traveling fellowship
May 12, 2019
Harvard Graduate School of Design Wheelwright Prize Winner in 2019
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Harvard Graduate School of Design Winner of 2019 Wheelwright Prize
Polish Architect Aleksandra Jaeschke Wins Harvard Graduate School of Design?s 2019 Wheelwright Prize
$100,000 traveling fellowship to fund Jaeschke?s research proposal UNDER WRAPS: Architecture and Culture of Greenhouses
Cambridge, MA ? Harvard University Graduate School of Design (Harvard GSD) is pleased to name Polishborn and U.S.-based architect Aleksandra Jaeschke the winner of the 2019 Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 grant to support investigative approaches to contemporary architecture, with an emphasis on travel-based research. Jaeschke?s winning proposal, UNDER WRAPS: Architecture and Culture of Greenhouses, aims to explore the culture and architecture of greenhouses around the world, focusing on the interactions between plants and humans across a spectrum of contexts and cultures, as well as the spatiality of horticultural operations. Jaeschke was among three remarkable finalists selected from more than 145 applicants, hailing from 46 countries. The 2019 Wheelwright Prize jury commends finalists Maria Shéhérazade Giudici and Garrett Ricciardi for their promising research proposals and pre...