Public Prizes
Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize recognizes exemplary urban design projects realized anywhere in the world within the past ten years. Nominations for the prize are received from the GSD’s extensive network of academics and urban design professionals.
Eligibility: Public
Wheelwright Prize
Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize is an international competition for early-career architects. Winners receive a $100,000 fellowship to foster intensive, innovative architectural research that is informed by cross-cultural engagement and can make a significant impact on architectural discourse.
Eligibility: Public
GSD Fellowships
Loeb Fellowship
The Loeb Fellowship offers a transformative year of study and engagement at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and a powerful worldwide network of over 450 colleagues.
Eligibility: Public
Daniel Urban Kiley Teaching Fellowship
Awarded to an emerging designer who demonstrates a promising trajectory towards consequential work in the design of the urban public realm.
Eligibility: Public
Experimental Fellowship
This year-long fellowship has a thematic focus on health, wellness, and sustainable material systems for buildings, landscapes, and cities.
Eligibility: Public
Joint Center for Housing Studies Fellowships
The Joint Center for Housing Studies offers a variety of fellowships to graduate and doctoral students across Harvard University, and funds several summer fellowships given to GSD students working on housing-related issues with public and non-profit entities.
Eligibility: Harvard students
Community Service Fellowship Program
A 10-week summer experience designed to expose students to new challenges and work environments within non-profit organizations, public service sectors, and government agencies, while providing an opportunity to explore the intersection of academic theory and field experience.
Eligibility: GSD students
Druker Traveling Fellowship
Offers students the opportunity to travel domestically or abroad to pursue study that advances the understanding of urban design.
Eligibility: GSD students
KPF Traveling Fellowship
The goal of the award is to allow students to broaden their education through a summer of travel before their final year at school. Three $10,000 awards to students in their penultimate year at one of the twenty-seven design schools with whom Kohn Pedersen Fox Foundation has chosen to partner.
Eligibility: Architecture students
Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship in Landscape Architecture
Awarded annually by the faculty in the Department of Landscape Architecture to support travel research by graduating students. It is the highest honor the department can bestow on its graduates.
Eligibility: Graduating Landscape Architecture students
Peter Walker and Partners Fellowship for Landscape Architecture
An annual travel award for graduating GSD students to advance their understanding of the body of scholarship and practices related to landscape design.
Eligibility: Graduating Landscape Architecture students
Irving Fellowship
Offers students graduating with GSD master’s degrees an opportunity to extend their research and discovery in design, architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture and continue contributing to the School’s pedagogy and dialogue.
Currently on hold
Additional Fellowships
The Office of Career Services has curated a list of additional fellowships that GSD students may be eligible for. This includes a range of Harvard University fellowships along with competitive fellowships from external organizations.
