2019 Richard Rogers Fellows

Harvard Graduate School of Design (Harvard GSD) is pleased to announce the six winners of the 2019 Richard Rogers Fellowship, a residency program at the Wimbledon House, the landmarked residence designed by Lord Richard Rogers for his parents in the late 1960s. Now entering its third cycle, the Fellowship is inspired by Lord Rogers’s commitment to cross-disciplinary investigation and engagement, evident across his prolific output as an architect, urbanist, author, and activist.

The six fellows named for the 2019 cycle were chosen from nearly 140 applicants from around the world. In addition to a three-and-a-half-month residency, each fellow receives travel expenses to London and a 10,000 USD cash purse. They will pursue research on a variety of issues, ranging from materiality of steel and brick in the City of London to historical and multimedia investigations of the city’s estates, markets, and edges.

Harvard GSD introduced the Richard Rogers Fellowship in October 2016, and named its inaugural class of fellows in February 2017. Since its inception, the Richard Rogers Fellowship has drawn serious scholars from a range of fields and backgrounds to London, where they have engaged with that city’s great research and design institutions and studied topics including housing, social housing, and so-called “property guardianship”; food, cooking, and their role in city development; and the potential of computational and digital fabrication in large-scale urban construction.

Harvard GSD has also engaged the Wimbledon House and the 2017 and 2018 Richard Rogers Fellows in salon-style discussions on London’s urban development and other topics. Learn more about the previous classes of Richard Rogers Fellows at richardrogersfellowship.org.

The 2019 Fellowship Selection Committee includes: Alison Brooks, K. Michael Hays, Sharon Johnston, Hanif Kara, Mohsen Mostafavi, Patricia Roberts, Lord Richard Rogers, and Simon Smithson. (Full juror biographies appear on the website RichardRogersFellowship.org.)

The 2020 Richard Rogers Fellowship cycle will begin accepting applications in October 2019.

Spring 2019 fellows

Esther Choi (Brooklyn, NY): “The Organization of Life: Architecture and the Life Sciences in Great Britain, 1929-1951”
John Paul Rysavy (Brooklyn, NY): “A Brick is a Brick: Material and its Image in Postwar London”

Summer 2019 fellows

Sarosh Anklesaria (Ithaca, NY): "Embedded Resistances within Neoliberal Regimes: Activist-Architects and the Contested Spaces of London’s Traditional Markets”
Maria Letizia Garzoli (Trecate, Italy): “The Leasehold Uncanny Persistency: Shaping London Great Estates”

Fall 2019 fellows

Peter Christensen (Rochester, NY): “Materialized: the Global Life of Architectural Steel”
Michael Waldrep (Berlin, Germany): “Finding the Green Belt: Preservation, New Towns, and Development on the Urban-Rural Landscapes of Greater London”