We will be closed Thursday, November 23 through Saturday, November 25. We will resume normal gallery hours of Wednesday–Saturday, 11–6 p.m. on November 29. We apologize for any inconvenience.

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Carter Manny Award. Since the establishment of this award in 1996, the Graham Foundation has awarded over $775,000 in recognition of promising doctoral students whose dissertation projects represent original and advanced scholarship in architecture and have the exciting potential to move the field in new directions. Two Carter Manny Awards are given each year, one for dissertation research and one for writing.

The winner of the 2017 Carter Manny Award for writing and a $20,000 award is James Graham, a PhD candidate at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Graham's dissertation, The Psychotechnical Architect: Perception, Vocation, and the Laboratory Cultures of Modernism, 1914–1945, explores the rise of applied psychology, and particularly psychotechnics, and the way these sciences influence architectural pedagogy and practice between (and during) the world wars of the twentieth century.

The winner of the 2017 Carter Manny Award for research and a $15,000 award is Razieh Ghorbani, a PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, The Space of Sanctions: Architecture and Construction in Contemporary Iran, explores how the culture of sanctions transforms architectural practices in Iran, and leads to new ways of imagining the city and the built environment.

Additionally, three students have been awarded Citations of Special Recognition for their dissertation projects. The list of citation winners follows below.

The award and citation winners were selected by an external panel after a competitive review of forty-four applications from doctoral students throughout the US and Canada who were nominated by their departments to apply for the award.

This year’s review panelists were Craig Buckley (Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art, Yale University); Meredith TenHoor (Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Pratt Institute); Irene Sunwoo (Director of Exhibitions, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University); and Nader Vossoughian (Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, New York Institute of Technology).

The Graham Foundation offers this annual award in honor of the memory of Carter H. Manny (1918–2017) and his long and distinguished service to the Foundation since its inception in 1956, first as a Trustee, then as the Foundation's third Director from 1971–93, and as director emeritus in his retirement.

Applications for the 2018 Carter Manny Award are due November 15, 2017. To learn more, see the award guidelines here.

 

2017 CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

WRITING

Kera Lovell
Purdue University, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, American Studies Program
Mapping Power over Urban Green Space in the Age of Protest, 1968–1988

Nikki Moore
Rice University, Department of Art History
Agritectures of the Green Revolution: Architecture, Art and the Agrilogistics of Transnational Aid from the United States to the Caribbean Region, 1930–1978

RESEARCH

Matthew Mullane
Princeton University, School of Architecture
Worthy Objects: Architecture and Histories of Observation in Meiji Japan

 

Image: Hugo Münsterberg, The Vocation of the Architect, from Vocation and Learning (The People's University, 1910). From the Graham Foundation's 2017 Carter Manny Award for doctoral dissertation writing to James Graham for The Psychotechnical Architect: Perception, Vocation, and the Laboratory Cultures of Modernism, 1914–1945

Deadline: November 15, 2017

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2018 Carter Manny Award. Ph.D. 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.

The Carter Manny Award supports dissertation research and writing by promising scholars whose projects have architecture as their primary concern and have the potential to shape contemporary discourse about architecture and impact the field. Projects may be drawn from the various fields of inquiry supported by the Graham Foundation: architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; the visual arts; and other related fields. The award assists students enrolled in graduate programs in architecture, art history, the fine arts, humanities, and the social sciences working on architecture topics.

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

James Welling, "8183," 2016 from the series Chicago, 2016-2017, Courtesy of the Artist and David Zwirner, New York and London 

In 2015, the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, led by co-artistic directors Sarah Herda (director, Graham Foundation) and Joseph Grima (founder, Space Caviar), was launched by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events for the City of Chicago along with the Graham Foundation as a presenting partner.

This year the Graham will present an exhibition with artist David Hartt, series of talks including Moshe Safdie and Graham grantees, as well as a satellite bookshop in partnership with the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, Make New History lead by artistic directors Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee.

The Graham Foundation congratulates all of our grantees and program participants featured in Make New History:

Ábalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos; Aranda\Lasch and Terrol Dew Johnson; Baukuh; Besler & Sons LLC; Tatiana Bilbao Estudio; Hélène Binet; Marshall Brown; BUREAU SPECTACULAR; Caruso St John with Thomas Demand; Design With Company; Frida Escobedo; Fake Industries Architectural Agonisms/Aixopluc; fala atelier; First Office; Formlessfinder; Studio Gang; Gerard & Kelly; IIT College of Architecture + SANAA; Ania Jaworska; J. MAYER H. und Partner, Architekten, and Philip Ursprung; June14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff; Kéré Architecture; Andrew Kovacs; Sylvia Lavin; Armin Linke; The Los Angeles Design Group; Atelier Manferdini; Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle; Monadnock; MOS; Norman Kelley; OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen; Jorge Otero-Pailos; Francois Perrin; Pezo von Ellrichshausen Arquitectos; Point Supreme; PRODUCTORA; Sam Jacob Studio; David Schalliol; SO-IL and Ana Prvački; Stan Allen Architect, Tigerman McCurry Architects; UrbanLab; Jesús Vassallo; Charles Waldheim with Office for Urbanization Harvard Graduate School of Design and Siena Scarff Design; and Zago Architecture

View of the Graham Foundation Bookshop designed by Ania Jaworska, Chicago. Photo Assaf Evron. 

After partnering with Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events to develop and launch the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015, the Graham Foundation returns to the Biennial’s second edition with the Graham Foundation Bookshop. Located in the Rooms for Books by Biennial participants Noëmi Mollet and Reto Geiser of MG&Co, adjacent to the Randolph Street entrance to the Chicago Cultural Center, the bookshop will be open during the Biennial’s preview on September 14 and 15, and throughout the run of the exhibition from September 16, 2017 to January 7, 2018. The bookshop will feature hundreds of titles related to the Biennial theme Make New History and new publications from around the world focused on architecture, design and art.

Since it was founded 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts has been dedicated to the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. In addition to supporting publications through grant-making, the Graham Foundation has published and co-published over 30 books, including the series Treatise, with individual volumes on emerging architecture and design offices such as Bittertang; Bureau Spectacular; CAMES/gibson; Design With Company; Fake Industries Architectural Agonism; First Office; is-office; Andrew Kovacs; Alex Maymind; Norman Kelley; Point Supreme; Softlab; SPEEDISM; and Young & Ayata. Recent co-publications include Thomas Demand: Model Studies I & II, published with Walther König, Köln, and In Progress: The IID Summer Sessions, edited by Irene Sunwoo and published with the Architectural Association, London. Forthcoming titles to be published by the Graham Foundation include: David Hartt: In the Forest and an artist book with Judy Ledgerwood, both to be published in fall 2017.

For over 60 years, the Graham has supported the publication of such seminal architecture books as Complexity and Contradiction by Robert Venturi, co-published by the Museum of Modern Art and the Graham Foundation in 1966, and Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York, published in 1978. In the last decade, the Graham Foundation has supported 450 publication grants. Recently supported titles include Cedric Price Works 1952-2003: A Forward-Minded Retrospective (2017) written and edited by Samantha Hardingham and published by Architectural Association Publications with the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Folio: Journal of African Architecture, Vol. 1: Pupae (2017) published by the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg.

The Graham Foundation Bookshop at the Chicago Architecture Biennial will include books by international publishers, such as: Aadcu; Actar; Acre; Applied Research & Design; Architectural Association Publications; Architecture at Rice; Arab Image Foundation; Archive; Art Against Art; Artez Press; Arquine; A+U Publishing; B42; Bard College Publications Office; Birkhäuser; Bloomsbury Academic; Book Works; Bom Dia Books; Canadian Centre for Architecture; Columbia College Chicago Press; Columbia GSAPP; Dabook; Dynamo Press; Dominica Press; Eakins Press Foundation, New York; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; GA Books; Guayaba Press; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; Half Letter Press; Harvard University, Graduate School of Design; Hatje Cantz; Henry Moore Institute; Houghton Mifflin; Images Publishing Distribution; Inventory Press; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; It: Editions; Ivorypress; Jap Sam Books; Kajima Institute; Lars Müller Publishers; Leete's Island Books; MIT Press; Monacelli Press; Mousse Publishing; NAi010 Publishers; Nazraeli Press; New Documents; Occasional Papers; Onomatopee; Phaidon; Park Books; Paternoster Press; Penguin Classics; Princeton Architectural Press; Quodlibet; REAL; Routledge; Ruby Press; SA+P Press; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Shelter Press; Soberscove Press; Spector Books; Sternberg Press; Strelka Press; Tang Museum; Testo & Immagine; The Menil Collection; Tundra Books; Ugly Duckling Presse; Uitgeverij 010 Publishers; University Of Minnesota Press; University of California Press; University Of Chicago Press; University of Illinois Press; University of Texas Press; Valiz; Valiz/Antennae Series; Valiz/Stroom Den Haag; Walther König, Köln; Westview Press; Wiley; Wits University Press; Yad Vashem Publications; Yale University Press; Zero Books, among others.

View of “Treatise: Why Write Alone?”, 2015, Graham Foundation, Chicago. Photo Matthew Messner. 

The Graham Foundation is currently seeking students or recent graduates of architecture, art, art education, history, design, and related programs interested in gaining professional experience through active participation in tasks related to the foundation’s exhibitions, public programs, and grantmaking.

For more information, access the job description here.

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce over $400,000 in new grants to organizations around the world to support 41 innovative projects engaging original ideas in architecture. Among the funded projects are exhibitions, publications, events, research projects, and site-specific installations and performances. These diverse projects and programs advance new scholarship, fuel creative experimentation and critical dialogue, and expand opportunities for public engagement with architecture and its role in contemporary society.

“This year marks an extraordinary group of projects from organizations around the world working to advance architectural thinking, push the boundaries of the field, and expand into previously underrepresented areas,” says Graham Foundation director Sarah Herda.

This year’s awarded projects were selected from a competitive pool of more than 220 submissions. The 41 funded projects are being undertaken by significant and emerging museums, educational institutions, architectural organizations, and biennials and triennials from around the world in cities such as Paris, Mexico City, Rotterdam, Cleveland, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based. The new grantees join an international network of individuals and institutions that the Graham Foundation has supported through the award of more than 4,300 grants over the past 61 years in its role as one of the most significant funders in the field of architecture.

To learn more about the 2017 Grants to Organizations, click on any grantee name below to visit their online project page, or go to grahamfoundation.org.

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

EXHIBITIONS (14)

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art-Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture (New York, NY), Heritage Fund-The Community Foundation of Bartholomew County-Landmark Columbus (Columbus, IN), Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art (Liverpool, United Kingdom), Materials & Applications (Los Angeles, CA), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), New York Foundation for Architecture-Center for Architecture Foundation (New York, NY), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France), Queens Museum (Queens, NY), The Renaissance Society (Chicago, IL), S AM Swiss Architecture Museum (Basel, Switzerland), Serpentine Galleries (London, United Kingdom), Socrates Sculpture Park (Long Island City, NY), Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, NY), University of Chicago-Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts (Chicago, IL)

FILM/VIDEO/NEW MEDIA (2)

The Architectural League (New York, NY), Chicago Architectural Club (Chicago, IL)

OTHER-FELLOWSHIP (1)

University of Illinois at Chicago-School of Architecture (Chicago, IL)

PUBLIC PROGRAMS (8)

Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL), Harvard University-Graduate School of Design-African American Student Union (Cambridge, MA), Illinois Institute of Technology-Graham Resource Center and Master of Landscape + Urbanism Program (Chicago, IL), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, United Kingdom), Lampo (Chicago, IL), National Trust for Historic Preservation-Farnsworth House (Washington, DC; Plano, IL), Navy Pier (Chicago, IL), University of Illinois at Chicago-School of Art & Art History (Chicago, IL)

PUBLICATIONS (16)

Anyone Corporation (New York, NY), Architectural Association School of Architecture-Unknown Fields (London, United Kingdom), Buró-Buró (Mexico City, Mexico), e-flux Architecture (New York, NY), Flat Out (Chicago, IL), FRONT Exhibition Company (Cleveland, OH), The Funambulist (Paris, France), Harvard University-Graduate School of Design-New Geographies (Cambridge, MA), Het Nieuwe Instituut-Research Department (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), New Museum (New York, NY), Performa (New York, NY), Project: A Journal for Architecture (Brooklyn, NY), Rice University-School of Architecture (Houston, TX), Terreform (New York, NY), University of California, Los Angeles-Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles, CA), University of Florida-School of Architecture (Gainesville, FL)

Image: helloeverything/SelgasCano, Kibera Hamlets School, 2016, Nairobi, Kenya. Courtesy of architects. From the 2017 organizational grant to New York Foundation for Architecture-Center for Architecture for "Scaffolding"

Deadline: September 15, 2017

Since 1956, the Graham Foundation has fostered the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. As one of the few funders of individuals in the field of architecture, the foundation's grants provide important support for the work of emerging and established architects, scholars, writers, artists, designers, curators, filmmakers, and other individuals.

To apply for an individual grant, applicants must submit an Inquiry Form—the first stage of a two-stage application process. The online Inquiry Form will be available on our website until the deadline on September 15, 2017.

For more information about the Graham Foundation's grants and to learn if your project is eligible for funding, please see our grant guidelines.

The architectural bookshop at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, 2013.  

The Graham Foundation Bookshop offers a selection of publications produced by the foundation's grantees, as well as titles related to our public programming and new, historically significant, and rare publications on architecture, urbanism, art, and related fields. In addition to relevant monographs, exhibition catalogues, research, and theory-based titles, the Graham Foundation Bookshop carries an extensive collection of local and international periodicals such as Abitare, apartamento, Domus, e-flux, Frieze, Grey Room, May Revue, Pin-Up, and Texte zur Kunst.

In fall 2013, the Graham Foundation commissioned Chicago-based designer Ania Jaworska to design the new bookshop, which was fabricated by Metal Magic and installed in the former dining room of the Madlener House.

Ania Jaworska is an architect and educator. She currently teaches art, design, and architecture courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds a master's degree in architecture from the Cracow University of Technology in Poland as well as the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Her practice focuses on exploring the connection between art and architecture and her work explores bold simple forms, humor and commentary on conceptual, historic, and cultural references. Jaworska’s work was recently presented as part of 13178 Moran Street: Grounds for Detroit in Common Ground, the 13th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice (2012).

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce over $560,000 in new grants to individuals around the world to support 72 innovative projects engaging original ideas in architecture. Among the funded projects are exhibitions, publications, films, performances, and site-specific installations. These diverse projects advance new scholarship, fuel creative experimentation and critical dialogue, and expand opportunities for public engagement with architecture and its role in contemporary society.

This year’s awarded projects were selected from a competitive pool of nearly 700 submissions. The funded projects are being undertaken by individuals and collaborative teams—72 projects by 99 grantees representing 20 countries—who include architects, designers, curators, filmmakers, visual artists, musicians, and writers from around the world in cities such as Karachi, Caracas, Kassel, Istanbul, and Chicago. The new grantees join an international network of individuals and institutions that the Graham Foundation has supported through the award of more than 4,300 grants over the past 61 years.

To learn more about the 2017 Grants to Individuals, click on any grantee name below to visit their online project page, or go to grahamfoundation.org.

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

EXHIBITIONS

Marcelo Araya, Andres Garcés, Iván Ivelic & Manuel Sanfuentes (Viña del Mar, Chile), Daniel Cardoso Llach (Pittsburgh, PA), Assaf Evron (Chicago, IL), Nathan Friedman (New York, NY), Anna Halprin (Kentfield, CA), Suzanne Harris-Brandts & Angela Wheeler (Brooklyn, NY; Somerville, MA), Rick Lowe (Houston, TX), Zahra Malkani & Shahana Rajani (Karachi, Pakistan), Senam Awo Okudzeto (Basel, Switzerland), Maxi Spina (Los Angeles, CA), Martine Syms (Los Angeles, CA)

FILM/VIDEO/NEW MEDIA PROJECTS

Josef Asteinza & Mariano Ros (New York, NY), TOMA: Leandro Cappetto, Mathias Klenner, Eduardo Perez, Ignacio Rivas & Ignacio Saavedra (Melbourne, Australia; Santiago, Chile), Aggie Ebrahimi, Oscar Molina, Brenda Isabel Steinecke Soto, Catalina Ortiz & Sandra Tabares-Duque (London, United Kingdom; Medellin, Colombia), Daniel Eisenberg (Chicago, IL), Sean Lally (Chicago, IL), Liam Young (London, United Kingdom)

PUBLIC PROGRAM

Seán Curran & David Skidmore, with Diana Balmori (Chicago, IL; New York, NY)

PUBLICATIONS

Kunlé Adeyemi & Suzanne Lettieri (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Detroit, MI), Esra Akcan (New York, NY), Barry Bergdoll & Jonathan Massey (New York, NY; San Francisco, CA), Caitlin Berrigan (New York, NY), Michael Carriere & David Schalliol (Milwaukee, WI; Minneapolis, MN), Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II & Mabel O. Wilson (Charlotte, NY; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA), Alison J. Clarke (Vienna, Austria), Francesco Dal Co (Venice, Italy), Roberto Damiani (Toronto, Canada), Martha Deese (City Island, NY), Teresa Fankhänel (Dresden, Germany), Leonardo Finotti (São Paulo, Brazil), Reto Geiser (Houston, TX), Design Earth: Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy (Cambridge, MA), Cristina Goberna & Urtzi Grau (Brooklyn, NY), Sarah Williams Goldhagen (New York, NY), Maria Gough (Cambridge, MA), Helen Gyger (Philadelphia, PA), Aimi Hamraie (Nashville, TN), Rory Hyde (London, United Kingdom), Office for Political Innovation: Andrés Jaque (New York, NY), Omar Kholeif (Chicago, IL), Tiffany Lambert (Brooklyn, NY), Paolo Nicoloso (Buja, Italy), Conor O'Shea (Champaign, IL), Itohan I. Osayimwese (Providence, RI), Kyong Park (Seoul, South Korea), Angelo Plessas (Palaio Faliro, Greece), Mil M2: Fernando Portal (Santiago, Chile), Anders Herwald Ruhwald (Bloomfield Hills, MI), Catherine Seavitt Nordenson (New York, NY), Elisa Silva (Caracas, Venezuela), Christopher Sims (Mebane, NC), Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin (Berlin, Germany; Jakarta, Indonesia), Molly Wright Steenson (Pittsburgh, PA), Paulo Tavares (Brasília, Brazil), Allyson Vieira (New York, NY)

RESEARCH

Michelle Moore Apotsos (Williamstown, MA), Tulay Atak (Brooklyn, NY), Lee Azus (Ypsilanti, MI), Andrea Bagnato (Milan, Italy), Eva Díaz (Brooklyn, NY), WAI Think Tank: Nathalie Frankowski & Cruz Garcia (Beijing, China), Miyuki Aoki Girardelli (Istanbul, Turkey), Virginia Hanusik (New Orleans, LA), Sophie Debiasi Hochhäusl (Boston, MA), Branden W. Joseph, Felicity D. Scott & Mark Wasiuta (New York, NY), Jeffrey Mansfield (Cambridge, MA), Rebecca O'Neal Dagg (Auburn, AL), Jason Oddy (London, United Kingdom), MK Smaby & Carolyn Wheeler (Oakland, CA; Tulsa, OK), Irene V. Small (Princeton, NJ), Despina Stratigakos (Princeton, NJ), Chat Travieso (Brooklyn, NY)

Image: Flora Manteola, Javier Sanchez Gomez, Josefina Santos, Justo Solsona, Carlos Sallaberry, and Rafael Vinoly, Conjunto Rioja, 1973, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo: Leonardo Finotti. From the 2017 Individual Grant to Leonardo Finotti for "Leonardo Finotti: A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture, Volume 2."

 

The Graham Foundation is sad to lose an important member of our family: Carter H. Manny, Jr. (November 16, 1918–February 1, 2017). Mr. Manny served the Foundation since its inception in 1956, first as a trustee, then as the director from 1971, and after his retirement in 1993, as director emeritus.

During his long service as director, Mr. Manny oversaw the award of more than $10,000,000 to over 1200 projects, to support publications, exhibitions, and research by individuals and organizations across the United States and abroad. He also oversaw a robust public program of talks, symposiums, and exhibitions by architects and scholars from around the world at the Foundation’s Madlener House in Chicago.

Since 1996, every year the Graham honors the legacy of Mr. Manny with the Carter Manny Award, one of the most prestigious awards given to doctoral students working in the field of architecture in the United States and Canada.

We invite you to celebrate the life and work of Carter H. Manny, Jr. (1918–2017), and honor his service to the field of architecture, with family and friends.

Saturday, May 20, 2017
11 a.m. program, with a reception to follow

S.R. Crown Hall
Illinois Institute of Technology
3360 S State Street
Chicago, Illinois

For more information and to RSVP online visit: carterhmannymemorial.eventbrite.com

[Image: Carter H. Manny, Jr. (right) with R. Buckminster Fuller (left), 1965, Graham Foundation, Chicago. Photo: Arthur Siegel.]

 

Application Deadline: February 25, 2017

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2017 Grants to Organizations. For over sixty years, the Graham Foundation has fostered the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

The application for the organizational grant cycle is available online. Organizations with eligible projects are invited to apply for a Production and Presentation Grant for projects that begin after September 15, 2017.

For more information about our grant programs, to learn if a project is eligible for funding, and to access the application, please see our grant guidelines.

In 2016, the Graham Foundation awarded more than $419,000 to 31 organizations around the world. These grants provided direct support for the development and presentation of publications, exhibitions, films, and other public programs. You can browse these and other recently funded projects here.

 

Image: Pierre Chareau, Maison de Verre exterior, 1928–32, Paris. Copyright: Mark Lyon. From the 2016 Organizational Grant to The Jewish Museum for the exhibition Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design, on view through March 26, 2017.