The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce Katherine Simóne Reynolds as a Graham Foundation Fellow. Synthesizing the Foundation’s grantmaking and exhibition programs, the program acknowledges the investment and resources required to produce an exhibition and invites an artist to create new work that engages the mission of the Graham Foundation—to explore ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. Providing space, support, and financial resources for the production of new work, the Fellowship enables the Fellow to experiment with production techniques and, often, to create work at a new scale. The Fellowship culminates with an exhibition at the Foundation’s Madlener House galleries in Chicago.

As a Graham Foundation Fellow, Reynolds is working in residence at the Madlener House and will make a new body of work for the exhibition, A different kind of tender and the practice of overhealing, opening in spring 2023 at the Graham Foundation. Continuing her exploration of overhealing from trauma, Reynolds references the creation of a keloid, or hypertropic scar tissue, as an outward representation of healing—a site sensitive to recovery and repair in tandem. As a part of her Graham Fellowship, Reynolds looks at the Rust Belt as a kind of keloidal landscape—places in Illinois such as Cairo and Brooklyn, also known as Lovejoy, the first town incorporated by African Americans in the United States in 1873—to reflect on relationships between perceptions of abandonment and fertility, Black female imagination, and different manifestations of healing.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Katherine Simóne Reynolds practice investigates emotional dialects and psychogeographies of Blackness, and the importance of “anti-excellence.” Her work physicalizes emotions and experiences by constructing pieces that include portrait photography, video works, choreography, sculpture, and installation. Taking cues from the midwestern post-industrial melancholic landscape having grown up in the metro east area of Saint Louis, she formed an obsessive curiosity around the practices of healing as well as around a societal notion of progress spurning from a time of industrial success. Utilizing Black embodiment and affect alongside her own personal narrative as a place of departure has made her question her own navigation of ownership, inclusion, and authenticity within a contemporary gaze. She draws inspiration from Black glamour and beauty while interrogating the notion of “authentic care.” Her practice generally deals in Blackness from her own perspective, and she continuously searches for what it means to produce “Black Work.”

Reynolds has exhibited and performed work within many spaces and institutions including the Pulitzer Arts Foundation; The Museum of Modern Art; and SculptureCenter. She has exhibited in national and international group and solo shows, has spoken at the Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Black Midwest Initiative Symposium at University of Minnesota. Alongside her visual art practice, she has embarked on curatorial projects at The Luminary; SculptureCenter; and upcoming exhibitions for Stanley Museum of Art as well as Clyfford Still Museum.

ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP
The Fellowship program extends the legacy of the Foundation’s first awards, made in 1957, and continues the tradition of support to individuals to explore innovative perspectives on spatial practices in design culture. These initial fellowships provided a diverse group of practitioners a platform to pursue innovative ideas in the field, and they included alumni such as experimental architect Frederick J. Kiesler, painter Wilfredo Lam, Pritzker Prize winning architects Balkrishna V. Doshi and Fumihiko Maki, designer Harry Bertoia, photographer Harry M. Callahan, and sculptor Eduardo Chillida, among others.

Artist David Hartt piloted the contemporary Fellow program with his new body of work in the forest, which premiered at the Graham in the fall of 2017. Click below to learn more about other Graham Foundation Fellows and their work at the Madlener House:

Brendan Fernandes, The Master and Form installation in collaboration with Norman Kelley (2018)
Torkwase Dyson, Wynter-Wells School (2018)
Martine Syms, Incense Sweaters & Ice (2018–19)
Nelly Agassi, Spirit of the Waves (2019)
Tatiana Bilbao, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: Unraveling Modern Living (2019–20)
Sergio Prego, Poured Architecture: Sergio Prego on Miguel Fisac (2020)
Anna Martine Whitehead, FORCE! an opera in three acts (2020–21)
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Exits Exist (2022–23)
Mark Wasiuta (forthcoming)

Image: Katherine Simóne Reynolds, Self Portrait in front of McGuiness Grocery Store, Cairo, IL, 2022.
Digital photograph. Courtesy the artist

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the 2022 Carter Manny Awards for outstanding doctoral dissertations on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

The winner of the 2022 Carter Manny Writing Award is Dicle Taskin, a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan’s A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. The winner of the 2022 Carter Manny Research Award is Robin Hartanto Honggare, a doctoral candidate at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. These projects, along with seven citations of special recognition, were selected by an external panel of scholars.

Taskin’s dissertation, “The Pan-American Highway Project: Imageries, Infrastructures, and Landscapes of Hemispheric (Dis)Integration, 1923–70,” traces the contested promise of hemispheric integration through the Pan-American Highway project, and questions how the uneven power dynamics of Pan-Americanism were negotiated through the representation, planning, and construction of this large-scale infrastructure project and its imprint in the built environment.

Hartanto Honggare’s dissertation, “Building Commodities: Environments of the Colonial Plantation in East Sumatra, 1869–1942,” studies the conversion of native land into plantation fields and the creation of an extensive network of buildings sustaining commodity production in East Sumatra.

Since its establishment in 1996, the Carter Manny Award program has granted 43 awards and 129 citations totaling $978,000. The program—named for architect Carter H. Manny (1918–2017) in recognition of his contributions to the Graham Foundation, as founding trustee in 1956, director from 1971–93, and as director emeritus—is the only predoctoral award dedicated to architectural scholarship and supports projects that are poised to impact how architecture is studied and practiced.

Panelists for the 2022 awards included: Lawrence Chua (Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Syracuse University); Pamela Karimi (Professor of Art History and Interim Chair, College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth); and Jamila Moore Pewu (Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and New Media in History, Department of History, California State University, Fullerton).

Below is the full list of the 2022 Carter Manny Award winners and citations of special recognition. Learn more about the history of the award and browse a selection of past winners on the Foundation’s website.

 

2022 CARTER MANNY WRITING AWARD

Dicle Taskin
University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
“The Pan-American Highway Project: Imageries, Infrastructures, and Landscapes of Hemispheric (Dis)Integration, 1923–70”

2022 CARTER MANNY RESEARCH AWARD

Robin Hartanto Honggare
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
“Building Commodities: Environments of the Colonial Plantation in East Sumatra, 1869–1942”


2022 CARTER MANNY WRITING AWARD CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Giulia Amoresano
University of California Los Angeles, Department of Architecture and Urban Design
“Cultivating the Italian Empire: Architecture and the Origins of the Global South, 1861–1914”
This project examines the spatial politics that directed the modernization of the newly constituted nation-state of Italy as transnational practices focused on agrarianism and performed by architects, politicians, and subjects traditionally defined as colonized to expand traditional notions of the relation between architecture, coloniality, and processes of nation-state building.

Ana Gisele Ozaki
Cornell University, History of Architecture and Urban Development
“New Brazils in Africa: Transatlantic Tropical Futurities, Racial Miscegenation, and Plantation Legacies, 1910–74”
An exploration of “new Brazils” ideals of architectural futurity, where legacies of the colonial plantation stand as a model of tropical adaptation, hybridity, and racial miscegenation for frameworks of territory, nation, colony, and self in architectural exchanges between Brazil, West Africa, and Southern Africa.

Elliott Sturtevant
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
“Empire’s Stores: Graphic Methods, Corporate Architecture, and Entrepôt Urbanism in America, 1876–1939”
Looking to understand the landscapes, architectures, and visual cultures of American business as key sites and agents of the corporate-led, turn-of-the-century territorial and economic expansion in the US, this dissertation studies four firms that straddled US borders.

Taylor Van Doorne
University of California, Santa Barbara, History of Art and Architecture
“Ephemeral Monuments, the Modern French State, and the Parisian Public, 1789–1848”
A diachronic study of the strategies of affective persuasion by which the ephemeral monuments and their print mediations of state-sponsored festivals in Paris sought to build and reinforce consensus in favor of a series of ideologically convergent political regimes between 1789 and 1848.

2022 CARTER MANNY RESEARCH AWARD CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Jessica L. Puff
University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
“Settler Colonialism and the National Historic Preservation Act: Preserving History and Historic Preservation Policy in the Pacific Islands”
An analysis of how settler colonialization establishes racial and cultural bias within the historic preservation field, informs public policy and professional practice, and influences what is determined historic and worthy of preservation to explore avenues for decolonization and reform.

Caroline Filice Smith
Harvard University, History of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning
“Planning Participation: Urban Design, Black Power, and the Struggle for Community Control During the American Century”
By exploring the role of conservative philanthropic foundations, the US government, and the Black Power movement in defining the limits of this now dominant paradigm, this dissertation traces a genealogy of Participatory Planning from the 1920s through the 1970s.

Y. L. Lucy Wang
Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology
“Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894–1949”
Studying building codes in Hong Kong, hospital construction in Manchuria and Beijing, and modernist Chinese gardens in Shanghai, this dissertation asks how the merging of medical and architectural expertise shaped the project of modernity in the Sinosphere.


Upcoming Grant Application Deadlines

2023 Carter Manny Award: application available September 15, 2022; due November 15, 2022
2023 Grants to Organizations: application available January 13, 2023; due February 25, 2023


Image: War Department Corps of Engineers, Chart that illustrates the status of construction of the Inter-American Highway at the termination of wartime collaboration in 1943 between Honduras and Nicaragua, 1944. Courtesy Edwin Warley James Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. From the 2022 Carter Manny Writing Award dissertation, “The Pan-American Highway Project: Imageries, Infrastructures, and Landscapes of Hemispheric (Dis)Integration, 1923–70,” by Dicle Taskin (University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning)

Himali Singh Soin, "an affirmation," 2022. Video still. Courtesy the artist 

Furthering its mission to support the development and exchange of ideas about architecture and design, the Graham Foundation announces the award of 36 grants to organizations. These projects include exhibitions, publications, digital initiatives, and other public presentations led by organizations based in cities such as Accra, Buenos Aires, Colombo, London, New York, St. Louis, Toronto, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based. Together, these organizations support the work of architects, artists, designers, critics, curators, scholars, and others, to explore new possibilities for the field and engage practitioners and publics worldwide.

The new grantees join a global network of organizations and individuals that the Graham Foundation has supported since its founding in 1956. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than $42 million in direct support to nearly 5,000 projects by organizations and individuals.

Learn more about each project by clicking the links below to explore a dedicated project page here.

EXHIBITIONS

a83 (New York, NY)
Architectural Image-Making in 1980s New York: The John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers Collection

Anyone Corporation (New York, NY)
Model Behavior

Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Himali Singh Soin: Static Range

The Arts Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures

The Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City, CA)
Harpers Ferry: An Interpretive Epicenter

Counterpublic (St. Louis, MO)
Counterpublic 2023

Disponible (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Making Architecture Available, 2022–23 Program

Floating Museum (Chicago, IL)
Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats

LIGA—Space for Architecture (Mexico City, Mexico)
Arquitectura Para Dioses (Architecture for Gods)

MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, at the Schindler House (West Hollywood, CA)
Seeking Zohn

Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip—Hop Architecture

Queens Museum (New York, NY)
Charisse Pearlina Weston: of [a] tomorrow: lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust.

Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL)
Echo, 10th Anniversary Ragdale Ring: Reconnecting to Our Roots

Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, NY)
On The Ground

Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH)
Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective


FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS

The Architectural League of New York (New York, NY)
Seeing the Whole: Design for Climate, Biodiversity, and Justice in a Complex and Dynamic World

Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (New York, NY)
New Angle: Voice

Society of Architectural Historians—Race and Architectural History Affiliate Group (Chicago, IL)
I Pity the Countries: Comparative Spatial Histories of Settler Colonialism, Race & Podcast


PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL)
2022 Design Matters Conference

Mobile Makers Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Interdisciplinary and Intergenerational Design Summit


PUBLICATIONS

African Futures Institute (Accra, Ghana)
FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, Volume 3: 19.8

Bracket (Toronto, Canada)
Bracket [On Sharing]

California College of the Arts—Architecture Division (San Francisco, CA)
Reviewing Design Book Review

Concordia University Press (Montreal, Canada)
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds

The Experiment (New York, NY)
Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City

Faktur (University Park, PA)
Faktur: Documents and Architecture, Issues No. 4 and 5

Geoffrey Bawa Trust (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Drawing from the Geoffrey Bawa Archives

Goldsmiths College, London University—Centre for Research Architecture (London, United Kingdom)
Research Architecture: Provocations, Practices, and Propositions

Manifest Institute of the Americas (New York, NY)
Manifest: A Journal of the Americas, Issues 4–5

MAS Context (Chicago, IL)
MAS Context 34: AIR

New York Review of Architecture (New York, NY)
New York Review of Architecture, 2022


STUDENT-LED PUBLICATIONS

Paprika! (New Haven, CT)
Paprika! Volume VIII

Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston, TX)
PLAT 12.0

Texas Tech University—College of Architecture (Lubbock, TX)
CROP 10: YIELD

University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles, CA)
POOL, Issue No. 08

University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (Chicago, IL)
Fresh Meat Journal 14

Upcoming Grant Application Deadlines

2023 Grants to Individuals: September 15, 2022
2023 Carter Manny Award: application available September 15, 2022; due November 15, 2022
2023 Grants to Organizations: application available January 13, 2023; due February 25, 2023

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 56 new grants to individuals exploring new ideas—across disciplines—that expand contemporary understandings of architecture. Selected from an open call that resulted in nearly 500 submissions, the funded projects include research, exhibitions, publications, films, podcasts, digital initiatives, and other inventive formats that promote rigorous scholarship, stimulate experimentation, and foster critical discourse in architecture. The funded projects are led by 81 individuals, including established and emerging architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, historians, and photographers, based in cities such as Buenos Aires, Argentina; Beijing, China; Buffalo, NY; Cape Town, South Africa; Kathmandu, Nepal; Lagos, Nigeria; New York, NY; Porto, Portugal; Praia, Cabo Verde; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based.

The new grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported since 1956. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than 42 million dollars in direct support to almost 5,000 projects by individuals and organizations. Learn more about each grantee project by clicking the links below.

EXHIBITIONS 

Albert Brenchat-Aguilar (London, United Kingdom)
“As Hardly Found” in the Art of Tropical Architecture

Imani Jacqueline Brown (London, United Kingdom)
What remains at the ends of the earth?

Sarah Hearne (Los Angeles, CA)
Print Ready Drawings

Sophie Leddick and Edgar Orlaineta (Los Angeles, CA and Mexico City, Mexico)
Sack, mask and stick

Temitayo Ogunbiyi (Gwynedd, PA) 
You will wonder if we would have been friends

Ala Tannir (New York, NY)
The Small Old House by the Sea

Krista Thompson (Evanston, IL)
Antonius Roberts: Art, Ecology, and Sacred Space


FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS 

saay/yaas: Anna Nnenna Abengowe, Patricia Anahory, and Mawena Yehouessi (Abuja, Nigeria; New York, NY; Paris, France; Praia, Cabo Verde)
her(e), otherwise

Helene Kazan (London, United Kingdom)
Frame of Accountability

Laila Kazmi (Elk Grove, CA)
Reaching New Heights: Fazlur Rahman Khan and The Skyscraper

Catalina Mejía Moreno and Huda Tayob (Cape Town, South Africa; Hove, United Kingdom)
Architectures of the South: Bruising, Remembering, Repairing

Mona Minkara (Boston, MA)
Planes, Trains, and Canes


PUBLICATIONS

Emanuel Admassu and Anita N. Bateman (Houston, TX and New York, NY)
Where is Africa

Ashley Bigham (Columbus, OH)
Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire

Marshall Brown (Princeton, NJ)
The Architecture of Collage

Louise Emily Carver and Angela Rui (Berlin, Germany and Milan, Italy)
Aquaria. Or the Illusion of a Boxed Sea

Jean-Louis Cohen (New York, NY)
Russia's Architecture 1861–1991: Poetics and Politics

Gustavo Diéguez, Felipe Mesa, and Ana Valderrama (Buenos Aires, Argentina; Champaign, IL; and Phoenix, AZ)
Design-Build Studios in Latin America: Teaching through a Social Agenda

Chris Dingwall, David Hartt, and Daniel Schulman (Chicago, IL; Hamtramck, MI; and Philadelphia, PA)
Black Designers in Chicago

David Escudero (Madrid, Spain)
Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy

Oxana Gourinovitch (Berlin, Germany)
National Theatre: Architecture of Soviet Modernism and Nation Building

Freyja Hartzell (New York, NY)
Richard Riemerschmid's Extraordinary Living Things

Renata Hejduk, Steven Hillyer, Kim Shkapich, and Jim Williamson (Lubbock, TX; New York, NY; Scottsdale, AZ; and Wellfleet, MA)
The Ethical Mirror: Architecture, Dissidence, and the Radical Imagination

Blair Kamin and Lee Bey (Chicago, IL)
Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago

Pamela Karimi (New Bedford, MA)
Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice

Indra Kagis McEwen (Montreal, Canada)
All the King's Horses: Vitruvius in an Age of Princes

Marina Otero Verzier (Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Evanescent Institutions: On the Politics of Temporary Architecture

Adair Rounthwaite (Seattle, WA)
This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb

Ozayr Saloojee and Jamie Vanucchi (Ithaca, NY and Ottawa, Canada)
Design Research for Uncertain Futures

Joel Sanders (New York, NY)
Stalled!: Inclusive Public Restrooms

Robin Schuldenfrei (London, United Kingdom)
Objects in Exile: Modernism across Borders, 1930–1960

Mark Shepard (Buffalo, NY)
There Are No Facts: Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (New York, NY)
Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement

Susan Slyomovics (Los Angeles, CA)
Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage

Gregor Stemmrich (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Dan Graham—Some Rockin’

Jo-ey Tang (San Francisco, CA)
arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified

André Tavares (Porto, Portugal)
Architecture Follows Fish

Beth Weinstein (Tucson, AZ)
Architecture + Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space, and Time


RESEARCH PROJECTS

Riff Studio: Rekha Auguste-Nelson, Farnoosh Rafaie, and Isabel Strauss (Cambridge, MA; New York, NY; and Northridge, CA)
Architecture of Reparations—Case Study House

Michelle Barrett and Chris Daemmrich (Kansas City, MO and New Orleans, LA)
Emergent Grounds for Design Education

Kimberly Juanita Brown (Manchester, CT)
Black Elegies

Fernanda Canales (Mexico City, Mexico)
If Women Made Cities: Expanding Coexistence

Dane Carlson, Sonam Lama, and Yungdrung Tsewang (Elsah, IL; Jomsom and Kathmandu, Nepal)
Landscape is Change: Doing the Work of Making Landscape across Time

Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Mengfan Wang, and Chen Zhan (Beijing, China and London, United Kingdom)
Ripple Ripple Rippling

Tonia Sing Chi (Oakland, CA)
Storytelling Spaces of Solidarity in the Asian Diaspora

Coleman Collins (New York, NY)
The (De)Ontological Oblique

Sharmyn Cruz Rivera and Danny Giles (Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Josephine's

Aria Dean (New York, NY)
Abattoir, U.S.A!

Marco Ferrari and Elise Misao Hunchuck (Milan, Italy)
Sky River

Joseph Giovannini (New York, NY)
Zaha: A Biography

Joseph R. Hartman (San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Eye of the Hurricane: Politics of Art, Architecture, and Climate in the Modern Caribbean

Sara Hendren (Cambridge, MA)
The “Ideas Team” at Cherry Road: Day Centers, Cognitive Disability, and Reimagining the Art Therapy Encounter

Kelley Lemon (Champaign, IL)
Connections through the Black Agricultural Landscape

Nifemi Marcus-Bello (Lagos, Nigeria)
Africa—A Designer's Utopia

Sonal Mithal and Arul Paul (Ahmedabad and Mangalore, India)
Queering Nawabi Lucknow: Architecture and the Colonial Archive

Dahlia Nduom (Washington, DC)
Tourism, Tropicalization and the Architectural Image

Image: Yungdrung Tsewang, "Silt Deposits and Floodwaters in Lubra," 2022. Photograph, 3 x 5 in. Courtesy Yungdrung Tsewang From the 2022 individual grant to Dane Carlson, Sonam Lama, and Yungdrung Tsewang for "Landscape is Change: Doing the Work of Making Landscape across Time"

 

As 2021 comes to a close, we have been taking stock of all of the amazing work Graham Foundation grantees have continued to produce during these challenging times. As our grantees push the boundaries in almost every direction imaginable to introduce new stories and perspectives on architecture and design, we are extremely grateful for their intelligence, fortitude, and courage to change the field.  

Their work comes in all forms: research, exhibitions, films, performances, publications, and new experimental modes of inquiry. As a sample of the abundance of projects produced by our grantees, we want to share the 100+ publications published by Graham grantees over the course of the last two years. To explore these titles visit our home page: grahamfoundation.org. We hope that they inspire you, provoke conversation, and spark even more ideas. 

From everyone at the Graham Foundation we wish you a safe and happy new year and we look forward to sharing more grantee news with you in 2022.

Join us in congratulating the grantees that released new publications in 2020 and 2021:  Stan Allen; Anyone Corporation; ar/ge kunst; The Architectural League of New York; Iwan Baan and Silvia Benedito; Daniel A. Barber; Bard Graduate Center Gallery; Juliana Rowen Barton, Michelle Millar Fisher, Zoë Greggs, Gabriella Nelson, and Amber Winick; Erin and Ian Besler; Anna Bokov; Andrea Branzi and Elisa C. Cattaneo; Larry D. Busbea; Canadian Centre for Architecture; Sara Jensen Carr; Michael Carriere and David Schalliol; Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, and Mabel O. Wilson; Lawrence Chua; Alison J. Clarke; Joseph L. Clarke; Columbia University—Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Kenny Cupers, Catharina Gabrielsson, and Helena Mattsson; Roberto Damiani; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum; Teresa Fankhänel; Fenester; Flat Out Inc.; Giulia Foscari; The Funambulist; Kersten Geers, Stefano Graziani, Joris Kritis, and Jelena Pancevac; Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, and Niloufar Tajeri; Prem Krishnamurthy with Céline Condorelli, Femke Herregraven, Grace Ndiritu, and Liz Jensen; Joseph Giovannini; The Green Lantern Press; Janina Gosseye, Naomi Stead, and Deborah van der Plaat; Vanessa Grossman and Ciro Miguel; Harvard University—Graduate School of Design; Haus der Kulturen der Welt; Jane King Hession; Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff; Ron Hunt, Matthew Stuart, and Andrew Walsh-Lister; Infranet Lab; Sharon Irish; Matthew Kennedy and Pep Avilés; Seng Kuan; Lampo; Lars Müller Publishers; Nana Last; Johana Londoño; Manifest; Alex Martínez Suárez; MAS Context; Brian McGrath and Sereypagna Pen; MIT Future Heritage Lab; Sarah M. Miller; The Museum of Modern Art; New York Review of Architecture; Office for Political Innovation (Andrés Jaque); Paprika!; Places Journal; Vikramaditya Prakash; Pricegore (Dingle Price and Alex Gore) and Yinka llori; Primary Information; Todd Reisz; Rice University—School of Architecture; The Richard H. Driehaus Museum; David K. Ross; Erin Eckhold Sassin; The School of Architecture; Christina Schwenkel; Steve Seid; Elisa Silva; Giovanna Silva; Katherine Smith; Society of Architectural Historians; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Penny Sparke; Standpunkte; Despina Stratigakos; Candacy Taylor; Thames & Hudson; Neyran Turan; University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design; University of Florida—Graduate School of Architecture; University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts; University of Maryland, College Park—School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; University of Miami—School of Architecture; University of Toronto—John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design; University of Utah—School of Architecture; Jessica Vaughn; WAI Architecture Think Tank (Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia); Folayemi Wilson 

You can also learn more about a decade of grantee projects—nearly 1,000 projects—on their dedicated grantee pages by going to grantee projects in the menu on grahamfoundation.org

 

We are pleased to highlight a number of exhibitions currently open around the world that are supported by the Graham Foundation:

Alvaro Urbano: The Great Ruins of Saturn
On view at Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York) through February 26, 2022

The Architects Collaborative 1945–1995: Tracing a Diffuse Architectural Authorship
On view at pinkcomma (Boston) through February, 2022

Counter Gravity: The Films of Heinz Emigholz
On view at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) through December 20, 2021

DAAR Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti: Stateless Heritage
On view at The Mosaic Rooms (London) through January 30, 2022

The Design of Carpets That Design Us
On view at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal) through February 20, 2022

Florian Hecker: Resynthesizers
Organized by Equitable Vitrines and on view at Fitzpatrick-Leland House, MAK Center for Art and Architecture (Los Angeles) through March 13, 2022

Heather Hart: Afrotecture (Re)Collection
On view at The University at Buffalo Art Galleries (Buffalo) through May 21, 2022

Interior Landscape Residency: Twin Projects, Can I Hug You?
On view at Space P11 (Chicago) through February 28, 2022

Justice is Beauty: The Work of MASS Design Group
On view at National Building Museum (Washington, DC) through September 25, 2022

Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock
On view at Cranbrook Art Museum (Detroit) through March 20, 2022

Our Silver City, 2094
On view at Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham) through April 18, 2022

Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow
On view in New Orleans through January 23, 2022

SAY IT LOUD: NOMA 50th Exhibition
Organized by the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and on view at Detroit Historical Society (Detroit) through January 9, 2022


Image: Heather Hart, Sweet Lorraine, 2021, installation view, Heather Hart: Afrotecture (Re)Collection, 2021, University at Buffalo Art Galleries. Courtesy of the artist and Davidson Gallery. Photo: Nando Alvarez-Perez

 

Awarding innovative doctoral dissertation writing and research by emerging scholars of architecture and design

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the 2021–22 Carter Manny Awards for outstanding doctoral dissertations on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. Caroline E. Murphy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning; History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art) is the recipient of the Carter Manny Writing Award, and Danya Epstein (Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts; Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture) is honored with the Carter Manny Research Award. These projects were selected by an external panel of scholars in addition to six citations of special recognition.

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Carter Manny Award program which has awarded 41 awards, 122 citations, and $936,000 since its establishment in 1996. The program—named for architect Carter H. Manny (1918–2017) and his contributions to the Graham Foundation, as founding trustee 1956, director 1993–71, and director emeritus—is the only pre-doctoral award dedicated to architectural scholarship and supports projects that are poised to impact how architecture is studied and practiced.

Panelists for the 2021–22 awards included: Jiat-Hwee Chang (Associate Professor and Deputy Head, Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore); Ateya A. Khorakiwala (Assistant Professor, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation); and Stephanie Whitlock (Executive Director, Architectural Heritage Center).

Below is the full list of the 2021–22 Carter Manny Award recipients and citations of special recognition. Learn more about the history of the award and browse a list of past winners here.

Upcoming Deadline

2022–23 Carter Manny Award: November 15, 2021

 

Image: Gherardo Mechini, Map of the Chio Valley in Castiglion Fiorentino showing the Celone and Vingone Rivers, ca. 1580–1620. Ink and watercolor on paper, 345 x 470 mm. Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Piante dei Capitani di Parte Guelfa, Cartoni, XX/20. Courtesy the Ministero della Cultura, Archivio di Stato di Firenze. From the 2021–22 Carter Manny Writing Award dissertation, “Waters and Wealth: Rivers, Infrastructure, and the Territorial Imagination in Grand Ducal Tuscany, ca. 1549–1609,” by Caroline E. Murphy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning, Department of Architecture)

Deadline: November 15, 2020

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2021 Carter Manny Award. PhD students must be nominated by their department to apply for the Carter Manny Award. The award is open to students officially enrolled in schools in the US and Canada, regardless of citizenship.

For the award guidelines, eligibility information, and application, click here.

 

The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the award of 52 new grants in support of critical projects that tackle contemporary issues, broaden historical perspectives, and explore the future of architecture and the designed environment through research, exhibitions, publications, films, digital initiatives, and other inventive formats. Selected from an open call for ideas that resulted in over 600 submissions last fall, the 2020 grantee cohort includes individuals working worldwide in cities such Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Bogotá, Columbia; Cape Town, South Africa; Lahore, Pakistan; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and US cities such as Atlanta, Georgia; Newport News, Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois, where the Graham Foundation is based.

As the Graham approaches 65 years of grantmaking and public programming in 2021, the Foundation seeks to continue to support diverse and challenging ideas about architecture by individuals working around the world. The international open call for applications is now live on the Graham Foundation’s website. Individuals must submit an inquiry form by September 15, 2020 to be considered for a 2021 grant.

To learn more about the 2020 grants to individuals, browse new grantee project pages here or go to the homepage of grahamfoundation.org.


Image: Photograph of Ethel Madison Bailey Furman (1893–1976) with fellow architects at the Hampton Institute’s “Negro Contractors’ Conference,” Richmond, Virginia, 1928. Courtesy the Ethel Bailey Furman, Papers and architectural drawings, 1928–2003, Accession 41145. Personal Papers Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. From the 2020 Individual grant to Jay Cephas for Black Architects Archive.

GRAHAM FOUNDATION GALLERIES AND BOOKSHOP TEMPORARILY CLOSED

Out of an abundance of caution, and in order to ensure the safety of our community and staff, the Graham Foundation galleries and bookshop are temporarily closed due to COVID-19. Additional updates will be posted on our website.

We encourage all to follow guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH). The Graham looks forward to your visit at a later time and have extended our current exhibition, Poured Architecture: Sergio Prego on Miguel Fisac, through July 25, 2020 in order to welcome future visitors and offer additional engagement opportunities.

Though the Madlener House is closed, please continue to connect with us on Instagram, Facebook (@GrahamFoundation), and Twitter (@GrahamFound). Read more about grantee projects, public programs, and grantmaking online and write to us at [email protected].

The Graham wishes health and safety for all.

 

As 2019 comes to a close, the Graham Foundation celebrates an ambitious year. We awarded 126 grants to individuals and organizations globally—over $1M in funding—in addition to presenting three exhibitions and over 50 multidisciplinary events at the Madlener House in Chicago.

We are thrilled to share the more than 100 projects supported by our grantmaking program that were presented to the public around the world this year. Exploring questions about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society, these projects expand our understanding of the field by tackling diverse subjects and challenging conventions in formats such as exhibitions, events, films, performances, and publications.

Exhibitions currently on view:

...and other such stories, 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Curated by Yesomi Umolu, Graham Foundation Artistic Director; Sepake Angiama; and Paulo Tavares
Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Sep 19, 2019–Jan 5, 2020

Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing
Nandini Bagchee and Marlisa Wise (2019 Grantees)
Interference Archive
New York, NY
Oct 17, 2019–Feb 2, 2020

Continental Divide
Curated by Matthew Coolidge and Aurora Tang
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (2018 Grantee)
Los Angeles, CA
Dec 6, 2019–Mar 15, 2020

Economy of Means
Curated by Éric Lapierre
Lisbon Architecture Trienniale (2018 Grantee)
Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia
Lisbon, Portugal
Oct 4, 2019–Jan 13, 2020

Hydrographic Auscultation Circuit
PANÓSMICO (Manolo Larrosa and Mariana Mañón)
LIGA–Space for Architecture (2019 Grantee)
Mexico City
Nov 28, 2019–Mar 1, 2020

In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury
Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Sheila Hicks, Clara Porset, and Cynthia Sargent
Curated by Zoë Ryan
Art Institute of Chicago (2019 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Sep 6, 2019–Jan 12, 2020

Julia Fish: bound by spectrum
Curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm
DePaul Art Museum (2018 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Sep 12, 2019–Feb 23, 2020

Made in Tokyo: Architecture 1964–2020
Curated by Atelier Bow-Wow (Momoyo Kaijima and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto)
Japan Society (2018 Grantee)
Oct 11, 2019–Jan 26, 2020

A Receding Coast: The Architecture and Infrastructure of South Louisiana
Virginia Hanusik (2017 Grantee)
PhotoNOLA 2019
New Orleans, LA
Dec 14, 2019–Jan 5, 2020

Ruth Adler Schnee: Modern Designs for Living
Curated by Ian Gabriel Wilson
Cranbrook Art Museum (2019 Grantee)
Bloomfleld Hills, MI
Dec 14, 2019–Mar 15, 2020

Smuggling Architecture
Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow (2019 Grantees)
S AM Swiss Architecture Museum
Basel, Switzerland
Nov 16, 2019–Mar 15, 2020

Soft Schindler
Curated by Mimi Zeiger
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, at the Schindler House (2018 Grantee)
West Hollywood, CA
Oct 12, 2019–Feb 16, 2020

 

2019 Exhibitions:

Aquí vive gente: Museum of History and Community of Puerta de Tierra (Building Cycles series)
Brigada Puerta de Tierra (BPDT)
Curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy
Storefront for Art and Architecture (2019 Grantee)
Jun 1–Sep 7, 2019

Ashley Hunt: Degrees of Visibility
Ashley Hunt (2018 Grantee)
Pitzer College Art Galleries
Claremont, CA
Sep 14–Dec 6, 2019

Assaf Evron & Claudia Weber
Elmhurst Art Museum (2019 Grantee)
Elmhurst, IL
Feb 16–Apr 14, 2019

An Atlas of Commoning: Spaces of Collective Production
Curated by Stefan Gruber (2018 Grantee), Anh-Linh Ngo, Christian Hiller, Mirko Gatti, Max Kaldenhoff, and Elke aus dem Moore
Miller Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Jun 29–Sep 22, 2019

Attending Limits: The Constitution and Upkeep of the US–Mexico Border
Nathan Friedman (2017 Grantee)
Bibliowicz Gallery, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Mar 6–Apr 11, 2019

A Certain Kind of Life
Curated by Jimmy Carter, Abigail Chang, Francesco Marullo, and Agata Siemionow  
School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago (2019 Grantee)
Cartuxa de Laveiras, Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Lisbon, Portugal
Oct 3–Dec 2, 2019

Colour Palace, Dulwich Pavilion 2019
Pricegore (Dingle Price and Alex Gore) and Yinka llori
Dulwich Picture Gallery (2019 Grantee)
Jun 12–Oct 20, 2019

Dark Matter: Celestial Objects as Messengers of Love in These Troubled Times
Folayemi (Fo) Wilson (2019 Grantee)
Curated by Allison Peters Quinn
Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
Mar 31–Jul 14, 2019

Directory of Portrayals
Sahra Motalebi (2019 Grantee)
Curated by Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley
Whitney Biennial 2019
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
Jul 10–Jul 23, 2019

¡El horizonte es nuestro!
Pedro&Juana
LIGA–Space for Architecture (2019 Grantee)
Mexico City, Mexico
Mar 7, 2019–May 31, 2019  

Enough: The Architecture of Degrowth, Oslo Architecture Triennial 2019
Curated by Maria Smith, Matthew Dalziel, Phineas Harper, and Cecilie Sachs Olsen
Oslo Architecture Triennale (2019 Grantee)
Oslo, Norway
Sep 26–Nov 24, 2019

2019 Exhibit Columbus Exhibition
Landmark Columbus Foundation (2019 Grantee)
Columbus, IN
Aug 24–Dec 1, 2019

Geometry of Light
Luftwerk (Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero) with Iker Gil (2019 Grantees)
Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain
Feb 10–Feb 17, 2019

Farnsworth House, Plano, IL
Oct 11–Oct 13, 2019

How To Build a Lagoon with Just a Bottle of Wine?, 2nd Lagos Biennial
Curated by Antawan I. Byrd, Oyindamola Fakeye, and Tosin Oshinowo
Àkéte Art Foundation (2019 Grantee)
Independence House
Lagos Island, Nigeria
Oct 26–Nov 23, 2019

Interim Urbanism: Youth, Dwelling, City
N H D M (Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon) (2019 Grantees)
Curated by Jaeyong Lim and Francisco Sanin
Donuimun Museum Village, Collective City, 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism
Seoul, South Korea
Sep 7–Nov 10, 2019

Is This Tomorrow?
Curated by Lydia Yee, Trinidad Fombella, and Cameron Foote
Whitechapel Gallery (2018 Grantee)
London, United Kingdom
Feb 14–May 12, 2019

Alserkal Arts Foundation
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Nov 6–23, 2019

Jonathas de Andrade: One to One
Curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2018 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Apr 13–Aug 25, 2019

Karthik Pandian & Andros Zins-Browne: Atlas Unlimited (Acts V–VI)
Karthik Pandian and Andros Zins-Browne (2018 Grantees)
Curated by Yesomi Umolu
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Feb 1–Mar 17, 2019

Learning from Ice
Susan Schuppli
Curated by Tairone Bastien and Candice Hopkins
The Shoreline Dilemma, Toronto Biennial of Art (2019 Grantee)
Toronto, Canada
Sep 21–Dec 1, 2019

The Lie of the Land
Curated by Fay Blanchard, Tom Emerson, Niall Hobhouse, Sam Jacob, Gareth Jones, Anthony Spira, and Claire Louise Staunton
MK Gallery (2018 Grantee)
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Mar 16–May 26, 2019

Martin Puryear: Liberty/Libertà: US Pavilion, 58th International Art Exhibition
Curated by Brooke Kamin Rapaport
Madison Square Park Conservancy (2019 Grantee)
Venice, Italy
May 11–Nov 24, 2019

Ministry for All (Building Cycles series)
Carla Juaçaba and Marcelo Cidade
Curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy
Storefront for Art and Architecture (2019 Grantee)
New York, NY
Sep 21–Dec 14, 2019

Now What?! Advocacy, Activism, and Alliances in American Architecture since 1968
Curated by Lori A. Brown, Andrea J. Merrett, Sarah Rafson, and Roberta Washington
ArchiteXX (2019 Grantee)
Co-Prosperity Sphere
Chicago, IL
Sep 13–Oct 2, 2019

Oscar Tuazon: Water School
Curated by Steven L. Bridges
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (2018 Grantee)
East Lansing, MI
Jan 26–Aug 18, 2019

Robert Hutchison: Memory Houses (Casas de la Memoria)
Robert Hutchison (2019 Grantee)
Curated by Salvador Macias
Casa Luis Barragán
Mexico City, Mexico
Aug 10–Sep 30, 2019

Serpentine Pavilion 2019 by Junya Ishigami
Curated by Amira Gad and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Serpentine Galleries (2019 Grantee)
London, United Kingdom
Jun 21–Oct 6, 2019

Shoreline: Remembering a Waterfront Vision
Curated by Bryan Lee and Barbara Campagna
El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera (2019 Grantee)
Buffalo, NY
Oct 4–Nov 16, 2019

tórax
Escobedo Soliz
LIGA–Space for Architecture (2019 Grantee)
Mexico City, Mexico
Jul 25–Oct, 25 2019  

Unit 1: 3583 Dubois Street
Anders Herwald Ruhwald (2016 Grantee)
Detroit, MI
Jun 22–Oct 15, 2019

về Huế
Cyril Eberle, Phi Yen Nguyen, Huong Dieu Pham, and Hoanh Tran (2018 Grantees)
Huế Museum of Fine Arts, Huế, Vietnam
Jul 20–Jul 29, 2019

Common 9, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam
Aug 16–Aug 31, 2019

 

2019 Events:

Alfred Caldwell and the Performance of Democracy
Graham Resource Center and Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program, Illinois Institute of Technology (2017 Grantee)
S. R. Crown Hall, Chicago, IL
Emanuele Coccia, lecture
Mar 4, 2019

Architecture in Motion
Diane Simpson (2018 Grantee)
FD13 residency for the arts, Minneapolis, MN
Jun 1, 2019

Black Futurism: Creating a More Equitable Future, Black in Design Conference 2019
African American Student Union, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (2019 Grantee)
Gund Hall, Cambridge, MA
Oct 4–6, 2019

BlackSpaces: Brownsville
BlackSpace (2018 Grantee)
Playbook launch, Brownsville Heritage House, New York, NY
Dec 10, 2019

The Climavore Centre
Cooking Sections: Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe (2018 Grantee)
Celebratory Climavore Lunch
Jun 1, 2019

Curatorial Forum
Independent Curators International (2019 Grantee)
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Chicago, IL
Sep 18–21, 2019

Design Matters 2019 Conference
Association of Architecture Organizations (2019 Grantee)
Chicago Architecture Center, Chicago, IL
Nov 6–9, 2019

LAMPO 2019 Concert Series
Lampo (2019 Grantee)
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
Pita, Mar 16, 2019
James Hoff, Apr 27, 2019
Anthony Pateras, Jun 8, 2019
Roc Jiménez De Cisneros, Nov 9, 2019
Catherine Lamb & Rebecca Lane, Dec 14, 2019
Caterina Barbieri, Nov 18, 2019
Copresented with the Chicago Architectural Biennial
Chicago Cultural Center  

Metro Test Zones
The Extrapolation Factory: Elliott P. Montgomery & Chris Woebken (2019 Grantee)
The Shed, New York, NY
Aug 17, 2019

Notes on Territory
Anna Martine Whitehead (2019 Grantee)
Green Line Performing Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Nov 22–24, 2019

Plan the Planet, AA Events Open Seminar
Organised by John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog (Territorial Agency)
Architectural Association (2014 Grantee)
Climate Summit, Oct 4, 2019
Session 1: How to think with others?, Oct  7, 2019
Session 2: Can we control the planet?, Oct  14, 2019
Session 3: What is a state of nature? - Green is not a colour, Oct  21, 2019
Session 4: Anthropocene: when are we?, Nov 4, 2019
Session 5: What is a revolution?, Nov 11, 2019
Session 6: How do we confront a world on fire? - Design and The Green New Deal on a  
Warming Planet, Nov 18,  2019
Session 7: Is law from the Holocene?, Nov 25, 2019
Session 8: Climate Peace, Dec 2, 2019

Re: Housing: Detroit
A. Alfred Taubman College Of Architecture And Urban Planning, University Of Michigan (2019 Grantee)
A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons, Ann Arbor, MI
Sep 12–13, 2019

 

2019 Films:

Don’t let me sw[EAT]
François Roche (2019 Grantee)
MEDIUM Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts and Design
Bratislava, Slovakia
May 24–28, 2019   

Fields of Neutrality: The Last Interview with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Dani Gal (2019 Grantee)
Weissenhof City: The History and Present of the Future of a City
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Jun 7––Oct 20, 2019

Fly Me To the Moon
Esther Figueroa and Mimi Sheller (2016 Grantees)
University of the West Indies
Mona, Jamaica
Nov 9, 2019  

Last Night I Saw You Smiling
Davy Chou and Kavich Neang (2018 Grantees)
IFFR, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Jan 23, 2019

Leaving Delhi
Etienne Desrosiers (2015 Grantee)
Montréal International Festival of Films on Art
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Montreal, Canada
Mar 22, 2019

The New Bauhaus
Alysa Nahmias, Petter Ringbom, Marquise Stillwell & Erin Wright (2018 Grantees)
Architecture & Design Film Festival, New York, NY
Oct 16, 2019  

Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Oct 17, 2019

 

2019 Online Publications:

Future Archive
Places Journal (2014 Grantee)
Jeffrey Kastner, “The Domestication of the Garage”  
Garrett Dash Nelson, “An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning”

 

2019 Podcasts:

The Funambulist Podcast
Produced by Léopold Lambert (2015 Grantee)
Podcast 128: Fatma Tounsi And Marie Northroup, “A Resistance Movement Against  
the Racist Danish ‘ghetto’ Laws”
Podcast 129: Tshepo Madlingozi, “There Is Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation In South  
Africa”
Podcast 130: Madonna Thunder Hawk And Marcella Gilbert, “A Recent History of  
Indigenous Resistance in Turtle Island”
Podcast 131: Nadia Ben Youssef, “Spreading the Decolonial Spirit of Bandung from  
Tunisia to Turtle Island”
Podcast 132: Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, “Diasporic Archives vs. Colonial Archives”

Night White Skies
Produced by Sean Lally (2017 Grantee)
Episode 055: Chris Mcalorum, “The Enabled Landscape”
Episode 056: Bradley Cantrell, “AI and Wildness”
Episode 057: Catherine Bliss, “Sociogenomics”
Episode 058: Perry Kulper, “Architecture Black Box”
Episode 059: Edward Tenner, “The Efficiency Paradox”
Episode 060: Rachel Armstrong, “Far From Equilibrium”
Episode 061: Mark A. Cheetham, “Land Art / Eco Art”
Episode 062: Neil M. Denari, “Career Arcs”
Episode 063: Nancy Y. Kiang, “The Color Of Plants On Other Worlds”
Episode 064: Alexander Eisenschmidt, “The Good Metropolis”
Episode 065: Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, “How Emotions Are Made”
Episode 066: Jo Lindsay Walton, “Strange Economics”

 

2019 Carter Manny Award Dissertation:

Modernism’s Politics of Land: Settlement Colonialism and Migrant Mobility In the German Empire, from Prussian Poland to German Namibia, 1884–1918
Hollyamber Kennedy (2016 Grantee)
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

 

2019 Publications:

Aldo Rossi and the Spirit of Architecture
Diane Yvonne Ghirardo (2018 Grantee)
Yale University Press

...and other such stories, 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Edited by Yesomi Umolu, Graham Foundation Artistic Director; Sepake Angiama; and Paulo Tavares
Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019 Grantee)
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

Architecture as Measure
Neyran Turan (2018 Grantee)
Actar Publishers

Architecture of Appropriation: On Squatting as Spatial Practice
Edited by René Boer, Marina Otero Verzier, and Katía Truijen
Het Nieuwe Instituut (2017 Grantee)

Art for People′s Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965–1975
Rebecca Zorach (2015 Grantee)
Duke University Press

An Atlas of Commoning: Places of Collective Production
Edited by Stefan Gruber (2018 Grantee)
Arch+ & Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. (ifa)

Bodybuilding
Edited by Charles Aubin and Carlos Mínguez Carrasco
Performa (2017 Grantee)

Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing
Edited by Nandini Bagchee and Marlisa Wise (2019 Grantees)
Interference Archive

Building Subjects
De Peter Yi (2016 Grantee)
Standpunkte

Buildings and Almost Buildings: nARCHITECTS
Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang (2018 Grantees)
Actar Publishers

Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style, 1860–1945
Charles L. Davis II (2015 Grantee)
University of Pittsburgh Press

The City of Broken Windows
Hito Steyerl (2018 Grantee)
Skira

Constructing Imperial Berlin: Photography and the Metropolis
Miriam Paeslack (2015 Grantee)
University of Minnesota Press

Dictator's Dreamscape: How Architecture and Vision Built Machado's Cuba and Invented Modern Havana
Joseph R. Hartman (2018 Grantee)
University of Pittsburgh Press

Faktur: Documents and Architecture, Issue No. 2
Edited by Matthew Kennedy and Pep Avilés (2019 Grantees)
Faktur

FOLIO: Journal of African Architecture, Volume 2: Noir Radical
Edited by Lesley Lokko
Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg (2018 Grantee)

Fresh Meat Journal, Issue X (FM X): Towards a Familiar Architecture
Edited by Henry Prendergast and Isabelle Reford
College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago (2018 Grantee)

The Good Metropolis: Between Urban Formlessness and Metropolitan Architecture
Alexander Eisenschmidt (2015 Grantee)
Birkhäuser

Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics
Frances Richard (2018 Grantee)
University of California Press

Gross Ideas–Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture
Edited by Edwina Attlee, Maria Smith, and Phineas Harper
Oslo Architecture Triennale (2019 Grantee) in collaboration with the Architecture Foundation and the Oslo Region alliance

Imagining Eurasia: Visualizing a Continental History
Kyong Park (2017 Grantee)
L Nour Editions

Imagining the Modern: Postwar Urbanism and Architecture in Pittsburgh
Edited by Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, and Rami el Samahy (2018 Grantee)
The Monacelli Press

Improvised Cities: Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru
Helen Geyger (2017 Grantee)
University of Pittsburgh Press

In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury
Edited by Zoë Ryan (2018 Grantee)
Yale University Press

Inside the Matrix: The Radical Designs of Ken Isaacs
Susan Snodgrass (2019 Grantee)
Half Letter Press

Is This Tomorrow?
Edited by Lydia Yee
Whitechapel Gallery (2018 Grantee)

Jacques and Jacqueline Groag, Architect and Designer: Two Hidden Figures of the Viennese Modern Movement
Ursula Prokop
DoppelHouse Press (2018 Grantee)

Jonathas de Andrade: One to One
José Esparza Chong Cuy
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2018 Grantee)
(Copublished with Penguin Random House & DelMonico Books)

Julia Fish: bound by spectrum
Edited by Julie Rodrigues Widholm
DePaul Art Museum (2018 Grantee)

Junya Ishigami: Serpentine Pavilion 2019
Edited by Amira Gad and Natalia Grabowska
Serpentine Galleries (2018 Grantee) and Walther König

The Lie of the Land
Edited by Fay Blanchard, Gerrie van Noord, and Anthony Spira
MK Gallery (2018 Grantee)

Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, Issues 45, 46, and 47
Edited by Cynthia Davidson
Anyone Corporation (2018 Grantee)

Martin Puryear: Liberty/Libertà
Brooke Kamin Rapaport
Madison Square Park Conservancy (2019 Grantee) and Gregory R. Miller & Co.

Memory Houses (Casas de la Memoria)
Robert Hutchison (2019 Grantee)
Arquine

A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change
Marco Ferrari, Elisa Pasqual, and Andrea Bagnato (2019 Grantee)
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City & ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

A *New* Program for Graphic Design
David Reinfurt (2018 Grantee)  
Inventory Press

New Geographies 10: Fallow
Edited by Michael Chieffalo and Julia Smachylo
Harvard Graduate School of Design (2018 Grantee) and Actar Publishers

The Number of Inches Between Them
Gordon Hall (2018 Grantee)
MIT List Visual Arts Center  

Oblique Time with Claude Parent
Mai Abu ElDahab, Claude Parent, and Benjamin Seror (2016 Grantee)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite

On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews
Allyson Vieira (2017 Grantee)
Soberscove Press

The Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Candacy Taylor (2015 Grantee)
Abrams

Paprika! Volume V
Edited by Camille Chabrol, Deo Deiparine, Helen Farley, and Michael Glassman
Paprika! (2019 Grantee)

Poetry Jazz: Wax and Gold
Edited by Olafur Eliasson, Eric Ellingsen, and Christina Werner (2015 Grantees)
Institut für Raumexperimente

POOL, Issue No. 4: Nostalgia
Department of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles (2018 Grantee)

Powerhouse: The Life and Work of Judith Chafee
Christopher Domin and Kathryn McGuire (2018 Grantees)
Princeton Architectural Press

PRAXIS, Issue 15: Bad Architectures
Edited by Amanda Reeser Lawrence, Ashley Schafer, and Irina Verona  
Praxis, Inc. (2019 Grantee)

Projects and Their Consequences
Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto (2015 Grantees)
Princeton Architectural Press

The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s
Larry D. Busbea (2019 Grantee)
University of Minnesota Press

The Revolution will be Stopped Halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria
Jason Oddy (2017 Grantee)
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction at Fifty
Edited by David B. Brownlee and Martino Stierli
The Museum of Modern Art (2019 Grantee)

Ruth Adler Schnee: Modern Designs for Living
Edited by Ian Gabriel Wilson  
Cranbrook Art Museum (2019 Grantee)

Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side
Lee Bey
Northwestern University Press (2019 Grantee)

Space Settlements
Fred Scharmen (2018 Grantee)
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research
Edited by Janina Gosseye, Naomi Stead, and Deborah van der Plaat (2018 Grantees)
Princeton Architectural Press

WASH Magazine, Issue 003
Edited by Jessica Martin, Nelson Schleiff, Michael Simmons, Jan Sobotka, and Michele Yeeles
The School of Architecture at Taliesin (2019 Grantee)

X-Ray Architecture
Beatriz Colomina (2016 Grantee)
Lars Müller Publishers

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 54 new grants to organizations that support projects internationally. Grantee projects include exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that tackle urgent contemporary questions, illuminate historic work with new perspective, promote experimental research, and support critical conversations in and around architecture. These organizations are located in cities such as Berlin, Lagos, London, Oslo, São Paulo, Zurich, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based. The innovative projects are led by eminent and emerging architects, artists, curators, filmmakers, historians, and scholars, among others.

The new grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 63 years. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than 4,600 grants in its role as one of the most significant funders in the field of architecture.

To learn more about the 2019 Grants to Organizations, click on any grantee name below to visit their online project page, or go here.

Join us in congratulating our new grantees on social media: Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and use the hashtags #GrahamFoundation, #GrahamFunded, and #GrahamGrantee to share the news.

EXHIBITIONS (19)

Àkéte Art Foundation (Lagos, Nigeria)
ArchiteXX (Syracuse, NY)
Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Chicago Architecture Biennial (Chicago, IL)
Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, IL)
El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera (Buffalo, NY)
Equitable Vitrines (Los Angeles, CA)
Landmark Columbus Foundation (Columbus, IN)
LIGA–Space for Architecture (Mexico City, Mexico)
Madison Square Park Conservancy (New York, NY)
Materials & Applications (Los Angeles, CA)
National Building Museum (Washington, DC)
National Trust for Historic Preservation—Farnsworth House (Plano, IL)
Oslo Architecture Triennale (Oslo, Norway)
Serpentine Galleries (London, United Kingdom)
Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, NY)
Toronto Biennial of Art (Toronto, Canada)
University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (Chicago, IL)

FILM/VIDEO/NEW MEDIA PROJECTS (4)
Architectural Association School of Architecture (London, United Kingdom)
The Funambulist (Paris, France)
MASS Design Group (Boston, MA)
University of Chicago—South Side Home Movie Project (Chicago, IL)

PUBLIC PROGRAMS (6)
Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL)
Harvard University—Graduate School of Design—African American Student Union (Cambridge, MA)
Independent Curators International (New York, NY)
Lampo (Chicago, IL)
New Architecture Writers (London, United Kingdom)
University of Michigan—A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (Ann Arbor, MI)

PUBLICATIONS (25)
Anyone Corporation (New York, NY)
ETH Zurich—gta exhibitions (Zurich, Switzerland)
Flat Out Inc. (Chicago, IL)
Harvard University—Graduate School of Design—New Geographies (Cambridge, MA)
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, Germany)
Instituto Bardi/Casa de Vidro (São Paulo, Brazil)
The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
Northwestern University Press (Evanston, IL)
Paprika! (New Haven, CT)
Places Journal (San Francisco, CA)
PRAXIS, Inc. (Boston, MA)
Produzioni Nero Scrl (Rome, Italy)
REAL foundation (London, United Kingdom)
Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston, TX)
The School of Architecture at Taliesin (Scottsdale, AZ)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY)
Southern California Institute of Architecture (Los Angeles, CA)
Standpunkte (Basel, Switzerland)
The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY)
Terreform (New York, NY)
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles, CA)
University of Florida—Graduate School of Architecture (Gainesville, FL)
University of Maryland, College Park—School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (College Park, MD)
University of Miami—School of Architecture (Coral Gables, FL)
Yale University Press (New Haven, CT)

Image: Heinz Emigholz, still from Goff in the Desert (Goff in der Wüste): 2002–03. Copyright Heinz Emigholz and Filmgalerie 451. From the 2019 Graham Foundation Organizational Grant to Haus der Kulturen der Welt for the publication Counter Gravity: The Architecture Films of Heinz Emigholz