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Telephone: 312.787.4071
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Aug 31, 2024

Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.

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2024 Grants to Individuals

56 grants to individuals that expand contemporary ideas of architecture through innovative, rigorous, and interdisciplinary work on design and the built environment

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A Non-Coincidental Mirror

Carmen Amengual

EXHIBITION

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Columnar Disorder

Germane Barnes

EXHIBITION

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Dien Dien: To Feel the Other and Weave a Territory

Gustavo Caboco, Brunno Douat, Ana María Durán Calisto, Manuela Omari Ima & Romelia Angelica Papue Mayancha

EXHIBITION

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Pyramidion

Dream The Combine: Tom Carruthers & Jennifer Newsom

EXHIBITION

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Ripple Ripple Rippling

Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Mengfan Wang & Chen Zhan

EXHIBITION

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Collage for the Edith Farnsworth House

Assaf Evron

EXHIBITION

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Tourism, Tropicalization, and the Architectural Image

Dahlia Nduom

EXHIBITION

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The Sixth Sphere

Brittany Utting

EXHIBITION

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Jaguar Lens

Juana Salcedo

EXHIBITION

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Recognized

Lobna Sana

EXHIBITION

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Craig L. Wilkins

EXHIBITION

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Inventory of a Building’s Reuse and a Landscape’s Redesign

Molly M Brandt & Kevin Weil

FILM

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Shahr-e Ghesseh [City of Tales]

Samira Daneshvar & Adam Longenbach

FILM

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An Incident

Mariam Ghani

FILM

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Pentasomnia

Julia Phillips

FILM

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IT IS A GOOD PROJECT AND SHOULD BE BUILT

Fred Schmidt-Arenales

FILM

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Artificial Horizon

Elizabeth M. Webb

FILM

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Ikiaqqijjut [Travelling through Layers]: A Field Guide to Infrastructural Literacy and Northern Connection

Mark Bennett, Geronimo Inutiq & Rafico Ruiz
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Here There Be Dragons, Season Four: Odes[s]a

Jess Myers

PODCAST

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A Territory in Conflict: Eras of Development and Urban Architecture in Gaza

Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat

PUBLICATION

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Disembodied Territories

Menna Agha & Sara Salem

PUBLICATION

NEWS

2024 Carter Manny Awards

Aug 14, 2024

Announcing the 2024 Carter Manny Awards for doctoral candidates' dissertations and research, which include an award for writing, research, and six citations of special recognition.
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2025 Grants to Individuals, Call for Applications

Jul 31, 2024

Applications for the 2025 grant cycle are now open for both individuals and collaborative groups. The deadline to apply is September 15, 2024.
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2024 Grants to Individuals

May 29, 2024

Announcing the award of $519,500 for 56 new grants to individuals.
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2024 Grants to individuals cont'd

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Significant Impact: Contesting Surveillance Infrastructure on Indigenous Lands

Caitlin Blanchfield, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik & Ophelia Rivas

PUBLICATION

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Commune, Communism, Commons: A Walk Through Ivry-sur-Seine

Simon Boudvin

PUBLICATION

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Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History

Civil Architecture: Hamed Bukhamseen & Ali Ismail Karimi

PUBLICATION

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From A to AECOM: Architecture Practice at the Twilight of Professional Tradition

Aaron Cayer

PUBLICATION

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Also Known As

Michelle JaJa Chang

PUBLICATION

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Sick Architecture

Guillermo S. Arsuaga, Nick Axel & Beatriz Colomina

PUBLICATION

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After Spaceship Earth

Eva Díaz

PUBLICATION

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Every Ocean Hughes: Alive Side

Every Ocean Hughes

PUBLICATION

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Junior Architects

Suzanne Lettieri & Anya Sirota

PUBLICATION

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Architecture for Reading in Public: Henri Labrouste's Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève

Neil Levine

PUBLICATION

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Midnight Tremor: The Life and Art of Roger Brown

Jeremy Lybarger

PUBLICATION

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Clara Istlerová, A Life Among Letters

Anežka Minaříková

PUBLICATION

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The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation

Elizabeth J. Petcu

PUBLICATION

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The Photographic Construction of Japanese Architecture

Ari Seligmann

PUBLICATION

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Life after Architecture: The Writings of Gian Piero Frassinelli (Superstudio) 1966–2022

Angelika Stepken

PUBLICATION

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Marcel Broodthaers—The Architect is Absent

Stefaan Vervoort

PUBLICATION

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Joséphine Baker and the Colonial Modern

Ines Weizman

PUBLICATION

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Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation's Capital

Amber N. Wiley

PUBLICATION

2024 Carter Manny Awards

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Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894–1949

Y. L. Lucy Wang

Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology
2024 Carter Manny Writing Award

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Swimming Pools, Civil Rights, and the American City in the 1960s

Arièle Dionne-Krosnick

McGill University, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
2024 Carter Manny Research Award

2024 CARTER MANNY AWARD CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

SARAH SAAD ALAJMI
University of Pennsylvania, Stuart Weitzman School of Design
Research Citation

B. JACK HANLY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning; History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art
Research Citation

YARA SAQFALHAIT
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Writing Citation

ECEM SARICAYIR
Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; History of Architecture and Urban Development
Writing Citation

SHIVANI SHEDDE
Princeton University, School of Architecture; History and Theory of Architecture
Writing Citation

NICOLAS VERDEJO
Pennsylvania State University, Stuckeman School of Architecture
Writing Citation

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2024 Grants to individuals cont'd

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Finding Frederick Law Olmsted in Cotton's Kingdom

Sara Zewde

PUBLICATION

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Envisioning New Futures through Alternative Practice

Verda Alexander & Maya Bird-Murphy

RESEARCH

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Payao: Trans-Pacific Sardine House

Pedro Aparicio-Llorente

RESEARCH

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Women Architects and Global Solidarity Across the Cold War Divide: The International Union of Women Architects, 1963–1993

Lori A. Brown & Karen Burns

RESEARCH

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Staring at the Sun

Alice Bucknell

RESEARCH

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Everyday Commoning: Living Diaries for Nicosia's Transnational Spaces

Alice Buoli, Popi Iacovou & Socrates Stratis

RESEARCH

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Philip G. Freelon: An Architect of Relationships and Stories

Arthur J. Clement & Emily G. Makaš

RESEARCH

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Monograph: Ali Labib Gabr and the Decolonization of Architecture

Yasmine El Rashidi

RESEARCH

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Engaging Grief and Healing in Design

Christine Gaspar & Liz Ogbu

RESEARCH

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From Diva's to the Pyramid

Annie Howard

RESEARCH

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An Incomplete Atlas of Stones

Elise Misao Hunchuck

RESEARCH

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Contesting Cultural Territory: Rereading Colonial Transformations of India’s Baghs

Yakin Kinger

RESEARCH

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Queen of the Swamp: The Saltwater Railroad

Sydney Rose Maubert

RESEARCH

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Shadow Thresholds: Architectures of Ruin in India

Shivangi Mariam Raj

RESEARCH

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The Hedge of Halomancy

Hylozoic/Desires: Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser

RESEARCH

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Tracing the Footprints of Entangled Narratives

Anthony K. Wako

RESEARCH

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What Else Could It Mean? Writings and Drawings by James Wines, 1972–2022

Phillip Denny, James Wines & Suzan Wines

RESEARCH

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