F. Gordon Wilson Fellowship for Affordable Housing
Do you have a compelling research idea for Aotearoa New Zealand’s housing challenges?
Call for Entries
Entries are open for the F. Gordon Wilson Fellowship for Affordable Housing.
Click here to download the 2025 Expression of Interest form and enter.
The research fellowship will be open to architects and design professionals from Aotearoa New Zealand who want to explore how architecture can help address one of today’s most pressing needs: housing.
Now in its third year, the fellowship supports a self-directed design and research project that addresses an issue around affordable housing. Culture, climate change, housing density, models of delivery and all sorts of approaches to unmet housing needs are relevant to the fellowship.
The F. Gordon Wilson Fellowship is a collaboration between Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects and family members of former Government Architect F. Gordon Wilson. The 2025 recipient will be announced in September and will receive $20,000 to aid their research.
Submissions must be received by 16 June 2025.
Note: In 2025, the fellowship was renamed the F. Gordon Wilson Fellowship for Affordable Housing. It is intended to broaden the scope, moving from only Public Housing to all projects that address the unmet housing needs in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Enter now.
Key dates
28 February: Expressions of Interest open
16 June: Deadline for submissions
4 July: Shortlist announced
25 July: Shortlist applicants submit responses to further information
14 August: Shortlist applicants present to Jury
24 September: Recipient(s) announced at Wellington event
Jury
The jury panel consists of five members who bring diverse viewpoints and varied experiences to the process. They play a key role in reviewing the applications and selecting the Fellowship recipient. Jury members also provide feedback and additional support and connections to the Fellowship recipients while they undertake their research.
Members of jury
Dr Kay Saville-Smith Chief Science Advisor for the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and Research Director, Centre for Research, Evaluation and Social Assessment
Peter McPherson Head of School, School of Architecture, Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka Unitec
Julia Mandell AIA; Design Director, Wilson Associates; representative of F. Gordon Wilson’s family
Marko den Breems Chief Executive Officer, Isthmus
Brian Donnelly, ONZM Director; affordable housing specialist