Archinect chats with Daniel Fernández Pascual, the 2020 Wheelwright Prize Winner

This year the Harvard University Graduate School of Design has awarded its coveted Wheelwright Prize to Daniel Fernández Pascual. The $100,000 fellowship funds travel-based research to support and investigate contemporary architecture and design.  The Wheelwright Prize was established in 1935 and originally intended for Harvard GSD alumni but has since become an open international competition supporting an emphasis on "globally-minded research." Cooking Sections, CLIMAVVORE: On Tidal Zones, 2017 - ongoing. Isle of Skye, Scotland. Image courtesy of Cooking SectionsFernández Pascual won the 2020 Prize for his research proposal: Being Shellfish: The Architecture of Intertidal Cohabitation. As the co-founder of Cooking Sections with Alon Schwabe, their research on architecture and changing ecosystems through food was previously featured in the "The Architecture of Disaster" issue of Archinect's print publication Ed. Archinect was able to connect with Fernández Pascual and learn more abo...