The 2024 Hart Howerton Travel Fellowship Application is Now Open!
Named by Architectural Digest as one of the Fellowship programs paving the way for the future of architecture and design, the program is open to students who will be entering their final year of study in September 2024 and provides an opportunity for Fellows to pursue a research topic of their choice along with an internship in Hart Howerton’s New York or San Francisco office. The research component provides an opportunity for Fellows to travel to locations worldwide and further explore their topic in the field.
“We continue to be inspired by the depth and breadth of work produced by our industry’s next generation of design leaders.”
Dave Howerton, Chairman
Background
In 2006, Hart Howerton began an educational initiative to fund a select number of Fellowship positions for students at design schools. Each summer, the Fellowship allows the firm to offer internships in our New York or San Francisco offices to students in planning, architecture, landscape architecture or interior design. The Fellowship also provides funded travel for research on a topic the Fellow selects.
As a result of the Fellowship, students have graduated with the added advantages of professional office experience, collaborative interdisciplinary design, and worldwide travel and research. The perspective gained from a carefully defined program within our firm’s global design practice has helped students effectively define the choices available after graduation, and more confidently approach their careers.
Structure & Schedule
The Fellows typically arrive in the firm’s offices in late May or early June. Each Fellow is assigned a team that provides guidance and feedback over the summer. The Fellows spend the first 3-5 weeks in a professional internship, working as part of a Hart Howerton project team, while finalizing the focus and arrangements for their travel study. Fellows then travel to pursue their self-defined, approved topic. Following the travel period, Fellows return to our offices to complete their professional internship and prepare a final “report,” which is presented to the firm.
Each Fellowship Includes
Round trip travel to SF or NY at start/end of the program
$6,000 to cover travel expenses during the 3-week travel period
$3,000 for housing assistance in New York or San Francisco during the 8-week Fellowship
$11,000 salary during the 11-week Fellowship
Past Recipients
Since 2006, Hart Howerton has sponsored an educational initiative providing Fellowship positions, laying a foundation for the next generation of design thinking. Past recipients of the Hart Howerton Fellowship have traveled to Europe, Eastern and South-Eastern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean and throughout the United States to study a diverse range of topics including urban food networks, green roof applications, and coastal programming strategies. As an example, Michael Murphy, founder of MASS Design Group, advanced his thinking about the role of design in Sub-Saharan health care programs as a Hart Howerton Fellow. (Michael Murphy: Architecture that’s built to heal | TED Talk | TED.com).
2023
Zhouhan Li, Cornell University
Sam Rosner, University of Virginia
Rigel Wakil, University of Oregon
Samanta Zhuang, Harvard University GSD
2022
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Notre Dame
Zina Fraser, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Noah Sannes, Yale University
Mariam Jacob, Columbia University GSAPP
2021
Katelyn Dimopoulos, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lauren Dusseau, University of Virginia
2020
Sarah Zamler, Columbia University
2019
Andrew J. Seago, University of Notre Dame
Jenna Frowein, University of California, Berkeley
2018
Brandon Zirzow, Syracuse University
Ewa Podgorska, Rhode Island School of Design
2017
Portia Malik, University of Pennsylvania
Molly Taylor, University of Oregon
2016
Lucas Boyd, Yale University
Ekaterina Dovjenko, University of Toronto
2015
Xiao Wu, Yale University
Daphne Binder, Yale University
2014
Daniel Toole, Harvard University
Baha Sadreddin, Harvard University
2013
Tue Pham, University of Texas
Blake Hudelson, California College of the Arts
2012
David Glick, Harvard University
2011
Michelle Miller, Harvard University
2010
Alice Phillips, University of California, Berkeley
Brandon Hall, Washington University
2009
Maggie Hansen, University of Virginia
Emily Vogler, University of Pennsylvania
2008
Stephen Balut, University of Texas
Christina Glasgow, University of Cincinnati
Rebecca Fuchs, University of Pennsylvania
Sara Lu, Harvard University
Zakery Snider, Yale University
Heather Woodworth, University of Virginia
Mary Nunn, Pennsylvania State University
2007
Marlo Dowell, University of Washington
Mark Phemister, University of Virginia
Michael Murphy, Harvard University
Christoforos Romanos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wendy Fok, Princeton University
Francesca Hernandez, Ball State University
QUESTIONS
For any questions about the Fellowship or our firm, please contact us at fellowship@harthowerton.com