SAMUEL BRAVO SELECTED AS THE WINNER
OF THE 2017 HARVARD GSD WHEELWRIGHT PRIZE
Chilean architect Samuel Bravo has been selected as the winner of the Harvard University Graduate
School of Design 2017 Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 travel grant established to support
“inves tigative approaches to contemporary design.” Bravo’s research proposal, Projectless :
Architecture of Informal Settlements, seeks to study the archi tecture of traditional and informal
settlements, of fering a contemporary revisiting of Bernard Rudofsky’s “architecture without
architects” exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1964.