Maura Marinelli has been awarded the 2025 Wheelwright Prize by Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, a $100,000 grant aimed at supporting emerging architects. His project, "Topographies of Resistance: Architecture and the Survival of Cultures," focuses on revitalizing rural mountainous areas that face cultural erosion and climate change. By exploring the Alps, Andes, and Himalayas, Marinelli seeks to develop design strategies that emphasize autonomy, sustainability, and local identity. The prize will fund his research and travel over the next two years, promoting insights beneficial to both mountain communities and architectural practices.
Marinelli's proposal, "Topographies of Resistance: Architecture and the Survival of Cultures," focuses on sustaining and revitalizing rural mountainous regions facing climate challenges.
His research aims to create design strategies that enhance autonomy and local identity by comparing the Alps, Andes, and Himalayas.
The prize will support Marinelli’s travel and research over two years, emphasizing approaches tailored to vulnerable mountainous communities globally.
This support allows an investigation into how architecture can engage with the fragile cultural systems of high mountain communities, contributing insights to architectural discourse.
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