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The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the 2024 Carter Manny Awards for dissertations and research by doctoral candidates. Through this annual program, the Graham supports work that contributes to new narratives in contemporary understanding of architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.
The winner of the 2024 Carter Manny Writing Award is Y. L. Lucy Wang, Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology, and the winner of the 2024 Carter Manny Research Award is Arièle Dionne-Krosnick, McGill University, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture. These projects, along with six citations of special recognition, were selected by an external panel of scholars.
Examining building codes in Hong Kong, hospital construction in Manchuria and Beijing, and modernist Chinese gardens in Shanghai, Wang’s dissertation, “Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894–1949,” asks how the merging of medical and architectural expertise shaped the project of modernity in the Sinosphere.
Dionne-Krosnick’s dissertation, “Swimming Pools, Civil Rights, and the American City in the 1960s,” proposes that Black civil rights protests that took place at swimming pools contesting unjust racial and spatial segregation had the potential to radically transform the symbolic and physical built environment of American cities.
The Carter Manny Award 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—has granted 45 awards and 201 citations representing over $1 million in support of this important student work since its establishment in 1996. In 2024, the award acknowledgement increased: the Writing Award is $25,000 and the Research Award is $20,000.
The 2024 Carter Many Awards panel included Pep Avilés, associate professor of architecture, College of Arts and Architecture, Stuckeman School, Pennsylvania State University; Joseph R. Hartman, associate professor of art history, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City; and Adair Rounthwaite, associate professor of art history and chair of the division of art history, School of Art + Art History + Design, University of Washington.
Below is the full list of the 2024 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.
2024 CARTER MANNY WRITING AWARD
Y. L. Lucy Wang
“Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894–1949”
Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology
2024 CARTER MANNY RESEARCH AWARD
Arièle Dionne-Krosnick
“Swimming Pools, Civil Rights, and the American City in the 1960s”
McGill University, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
2024 CARTER MANNY WRITING AWARD CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Yara Saqfalhait
“Building at a Distance: Architecture, Contractual Techniques, and Economies of Trust in the Late Ottoman Empire 1876–1930”
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
This dissertation offers an account of transformations in the technical and procedural aspects of building at a distance from the imperial capital in the late Ottoman empire, as they were shaped by simultaneous processes of administrative centralization and economic liberalization.
Ecem Saricayir
“Property in Migration: The Making and Unmaking of the South Caucasus, 1878–1955”
Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; History of Architecture and Urban Development
Studying the material transformation and discursive production of the built environment of the South Caucasus alongside processes of forced and voluntary migration by focusing on shifting regimes of property in the region, this dissertation examines the dissolution of the Russian and Ottoman Empires and the emergence of nation-states from 1878 to 1955.
Shivani Shedde
“Projections of Possibility: Architectural Imaginaries of Afro-Asian Solidarity 1947–1977”
Princeton University, School of Architecture; History and Theory of Architecture
This dissertation explores how architecture was mobilized within postwar circuits of anticolonial and transnational exchange to articulate a language of solidarity and liberation.
Nicolas Verdejo
“Architectural Education Under the Iron Fist: Architecture Schools during the Pinochet Dictatorship in Chile, 1973–1990”
Pennsylvania State University, Stuckeman School, Department of Architecture
Focusing on the Pinochet regime, this dissertation examines the impact of its policies on architecture schools in Chile.
2024 CARTER MANNY RESEARCH AWARD CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Sarah Saad Alajmi
“Between Nomadism and Settlement: The Architectural Transformation of the Arabian Desert, 1940s–1970s”
University of Pennsylvania, Stuart Weitzman School of Design
This dissertation researches the modernization and sedentarization of the tribespeople of Arabia in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, which changed the desert architecturally and environmentally in the mid-twentieth century.
B. Jack Hanly
“The Environmental Professionals: Architecture, Regulation, and the American Landscape”
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning; History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art
Looking at the rise of the environmental movement, this dissertation considers a corresponding transformation of architectural practice in the image of “environmental professionalism,” which sought to mediate disputes between public activists and private developers via ecological design techniques.
The 2025 grants to individuals inquiry form is due September 15, 2024
The Graham Foundation is currently accepting applications from individuals and collaboratives for the 2025 grant cycle. As one of the few funders of individuals in the field of architecture, the Foundation's grants provide important support for individuals to conduct research, and produce exhibitions, publications, and other projects that engage ideas across contemporary architecture discourse. Through this annual open call—a two-stage application process—the Graham Foundation offers two types of grants to individuals: Research and Production & Presentation grants.
The first stage inquiry form for 2025 is available online and is due September 15, 2024. For more information about the Foundation's grantmaking programs and eligibility requirements, click here.
Julia Phillips, “‘Pentasomnia’ storyboard for ‘Institution’ video,” 2024. Digital drawing. Courtesy the artist. From the 2024 grant to Julia Phillips for “Pentasomnia”
The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the award of $519,500 for 56 new grants to individuals. Selected from nearly 600 submissions made at the Foundation’s annual application deadline in September 2023, the funded projects include publications, research, exhibitions, films, site-specific installations, and digital initiatives that expand contemporary ideas of architecture through innovative rigorous interdisciplinary work on design and the built environment. The funded projects are led by 84 individuals that include established and emerging architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, historians, and writers, based in cities such as Beijing, China; Bogotá, Colombia; Cairo, Egypt; Delhi, India; Houston, TX; Kampala, Uganda; London, United Kingdom; Los Angeles, CA; Melbourne, Australia; New York, NY; Paris, France; Washington, DC; and Chicago, IL, where the Graham Foundation is based.
The 2024 grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 68 years. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than 44 million dollars in direct support to over 5,100 projects by individuals and organizations around the world. The 2024 grants to organizations will be announced later this summer.
The complete list of the 2024 individual grantees follows. Learn more about each project by clicking the links below.
EXHIBITIONS
Carmen Amengual (Los Angeles, CA)
A Non-Coincidental Mirror
Germane Barnes (Miami, FL)
Columnar Disorder
Gustavo Caboco, Brunno Douat, Ana María Durán Calisto, Manuela Omari Ima, and Romelia Angelica Papue Mayancha (Brasília, Brazil; New Haven, CT; New York, NY; Shell Mera, Ecuador; Tepapade, Ecuador)
Dien Dien: To Feel the Other and Weave a Territory
Dream The Combine: Tom Carruthers and Jennifer Newsom (Ithaca, NY)
Pyramidion
Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Mengfan Wang, and Chen Zhan (Beijing, China and London, United Kingdom)
Ripple Ripple Rippling
Assaf Evron (Chicago, IL)
Collage for the Edith Farnsworth House
Dahlia Nduom (Washington, DC)
Tourism, Tropicalization and the Architectural Image
Albert Pope and Brittany Utting (Houston, TX)
The Sixth Sphere
Juana Salcedo (Austin, TX)
Jaguar Lens
Lobna Sana (Be’er-Sheva City, Israel)
Recognized
Craig L. Wilkins (Detroit, MI)
if history were told as stories it'd never be forgotten...
FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS
Mark Bennett, Geronimo Inutiq, and Rafico Ruiz (Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto, Canada)
Ikiaqqijjut [Travelling through Layers]: A Field Guide to Infrastructural Literacy and Northern Connection
Molly M Brandt and Kevin Weil (Chicago, IL and New York, NY)
Inventory of a Building’s Reuse and a Landscape’s Redesign
Samira Daneshvar and Adam Longebach (Cambridge, MA)
Shahr-e Ghesseh [City of Tales]
Mariam Ghani (New York, NY)
An Incident
Jess Myers (New York and Syracuse, NY)
Here There Be Dragons, Season Four: Odes[s]a
Julia Phillips (Berlin, Germany and Chicago, IL)
Pentasomni
Fred Schmidt-Arenales (New York, NY)
IT IS A GOOD PROJECT AND SHOULD BE BUILT
Elizabeth M. Webb (Atlanta, GA)
Artificial Horizon
PUBLICATIONS
Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat (Haifa, Israel)
A Territory in Conflict: Eras of Development and Urban Architecture in Gaza
Menna Agha and Sara Salem (London, United Kingdom and Ottawa, Canada)
Disembodied Territories
Caitlin Blanchfield, Nina Kolowratnik, and Ophelia Rivas (Ali Jegk, Tohono O'odham Nation; Ithaca, NY; and Vienna, Austria)
Significant Impact: Contesting Surveillance Infrastructure on Indigenous Lands
Simon Boudvin (Paris, France)
Commune, Communism, Commons: A Walk Through Ivry-sur-Seine
Civil Architecture: Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Ismail Karimi (Kuwait City, Kuwait and Muharraq, Bahrain)
Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History
Aaron Cayer (Los Angeles, CA)
From A to AECOM: Architecture Practice at the Twilight of Professional Tradition
Michelle JaJa Chang (Boston, MA)
Also Known As
Beatriz Colomina with Nick Axel and Guillermo S. Arsuaga (New York, NY; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; London, United Kingdom)
Sick Architecture
Eva Díaz (New York, NY)
After Spaceship Earth
Every Ocean Hughes (New York, NY)
Every Ocean Hughes: Alive Side
Suzanne Lettieri and Anya Sirota (Ithaca, NY and Ann Arbor, MI)
Junior Architects
Neil Levine (Cambridge, MA)
Architecture for Reading in Public: Henri Labrouste's Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
Jeremy Lybarger (Chicago, IL)
Midnight Tremor: The Life and Art of Roger Brown
Anežka Minaříková (New York, NY)
Clara Istlerová, A Life Among Letters
Elizabeth J. Petcu (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation
Ari Seligmann (Melbourne, Australia)
The Photographic Construction of Japanese Architecture
Angelika Stepken (Berlin, Germany)
Life after Architecture: The Writings of Gian Piero Frassinelli (Superstudio) 1966–2022
Stefaan Vervoort (Ghent, Belgium)
Marcel Broodthaers—The Architect is Absent
Ines Weizman (London, United Kingdom)
Joséphine Baker and the Colonial Modern
Amber N. Wiley (Philadelphia, PA)
Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation's Capital
Sara Zewde (New York, NY)
Finding Frederick Law Olmsted in Cotton’s Kingdom
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Verda Alexander and Maya Bird-Murphy (San Francisco, CA and Chicago, IL)
Envisioning New Futures through Alternative Practice
Pedro Aparicio-Llorente (Bogotá, Colombia)
Payao: Trans-Pacific Sardine House
Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns (Syracuse, NY and Melbourne, Australia)
Women Architects and Global Solidarity Across the Cold War Divide: The International Union of Women Architects, 1963–1993
Alice Bucknell (Los Angeles, CA)
Staring at the Sun
Alice Buoli, Popi Iacovou, and Socrates Stratis (Milan, Italy and Nicosia, Cyprus)
Everyday Commoning: Living Diaries for Nicosia's Transnational Spaces
Arthur J. Clement and Emily G. Makaš (Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC)
Philip G. Freelon: An Architect of Relationships and Stories
Yasmine El Rashidi (Cairo, Egypt)
Monograph: Ali Labib Gabr and the Decolonization of Architecture
Christine Gaspar and Liz Ogbu (New York, NY and Oakland, CA)
Engaging Grief and Healing in Design
Annie Howard (Chicago, IL)
From Diva’s to the Pyramid
Elise Misao Hunchuck (Berlin, Germany)
An Incomplete Atlas of Stones
Yakin Kinger (Nashik, India)
Contesting Cultural Territory: Rereading Colonial Transformations of India’s Baghs
Sydney Rose Maubert (Miami, FL)
Queen of the Swamp: The Saltwater Railroad
Shivangi Mariam Raj (Delhi, India and Paris, France)
Shadow Thresholds: Architectures of Ruin in India
Hylozoic/Desires: Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser (Delhi, India and London, United Kingdom)
The Hedge of Halomancy
Anthony K. Wako (Kampala, Uganda)
Tracing the Footprints of Entangled Narratives
James Wines, Suzan Wines, and Phillip Denny (New York, NY)
What Else Could It Mean? Writings and Drawings by James Wines, 1972–2022
The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce artist Cally Spooner as a 2024 Graham Foundation Fellow. As a part of the fellowship, Spooner will present a large-scale exhibition at the Foundation's Madlener House galleries featuring a repertoire of works from Deadtime, a multi-year research project started in 2018.
Deadtime stages an anatomy study of how performance quantifies the social body. In Deadtime, living and mediated bodies, not always human, appear and reoccur, both vital and corpse-like. At the Graham Foundation, the installation unfolds across media, spills through the Foundation’s architecture, and throws open the frame to ask: how does the present neoliberal condition deaden the social fabric, making it increasingly hard to tell the difference between what is alive and what is dead? Deadtime is formed from twenty works, including sound works and sonic scenographies, films, commissioned paintings, sculptural propositions, and anatomical-architectural interventions.
Opening to the public on February 17, 2024, Deadtime begins with “A Thesis on Spillage, A Symposium-like Gathering”— featuring performances, choreographies, conversations, and lectures by Nuar Alsadir, Marquis Bey, Wendy Brown, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tony Cokes, Hendrik Folkerts, Melody Giron, Irena Haiduk, Sarah Herda, Darrell Jones, Ralph Lemon, Maggie Segale, and Cally Spooner, among others.
At the Graham, Deadtime is cocurated by Graham Foundation director, Sarah Herda and Hendrik Folkerts, curator of international contemporary art and head of exhibitions, Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Registration is required for “A Thesis on Spillage, A Symposium-like Gathering”, click here to learn more.
Cally Spooner is an artist who exhibits performances that unfold across media—on film, in text, as objects, through sound, and as illustrated in drawings. Recent institutional solo exhibitions have taken place at Cukrarna, Ljubljana; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem; Parrhesiades, London; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Swiss Institute, New York; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève; the New Museum, New York; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Her live performances been staged at, amongst others, Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London; Performa 13, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum M, Leuven; and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London. Spooner is the author of recent and forthcoming monographs published by Lenz Press and the Swiss Institute (2023); Hatje Cantz (2020); Mousse (2018); and Slimvolume/Cornerhouse (2016). Her novella, Collapsing in Parts, was published by Mousse in 2012. Spooner is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Paul Hamlyn Award and the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Mads Øvlisen PhD Scholarship for practice-based art. She was born in the United Kingdom, is British Italian, and lives and works between London and Turin.
ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP
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.
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. Later Fellows include Katherine Simóne Reynolds (2023), Barbara Stauffacher Solomon (2022–23), Anna Martine Whitehead (2020–21), Sergio Prego (2020), Tatiana Bilbao (2019–20), Nelly Agassi (2019), Martine Syms (2018–19), Torkwase Dyson (2018), and Brendan Fernandes (2018).
CURRENT EXHIBITION
CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal
Curated by Floating Museum
Through January 27, 2024
GALLERY AND BOOKSHOP HOURS
Wednesday–Saturday, 12–5 p.m.
Free admission, no reservations required
CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal at the Graham features work by:
Cecil McDonald, Jr.
Dream The Combine
interim studio (Nora Akawi and Eduardo Rega Calvo) with Jumanah Abbas; Salim al-Kadi, Khaled Malas, Alfred Tarazi, and Jana Traboulsi (Sigil Collective); Taesha Aurora; Jeankarlos Cruz; Muna Dajani; Nadine Fattaleh; Martina Duque Gonzalez; Haitham Haddad (Studio Mnjnk); Aamer Ibraheem; Mapping Memories of Resistance project (Birzeit University, London School of Economics, Al-Marsad Arab Center for Human Rights in the Golan); Emad Madah; Rami Nakhle; Daniel Ruiz; Frederick Rapp; and Holly Nicole Smithberger
Larissa Fassler
Curated by the interdisciplinary arts collective the Floating Museum, CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal features the work of more than 80 local and global participants in exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Architecture Center, Graham Foundation, the James R. Thompson Center, and other sites across the city.
For more information on the exhibition, CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, click here.
The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the 2023 Carter Manny Awards for doctoral dissertations and research by emerging scholars. Through this annual program the Graham supports work that contributes to new narratives in contemporary understanding of architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.
The winner of the 2023 Carter Manny Writing Award is Aaron Tobey and the winner of the 2023 Carter Manny Research Award is Jia Weng. Both are history and theory of architecture doctoral candidates at Yale University School of Architecture. These projects, along with eight citations of special recognition, were selected by an external panel of scholars.
Tobey’s dissertation, “Drawing Management: Corporate Organization, International Practice, and the Making of Computer Aided Design,” details how computer aided design software and practices common today were coconstructed with transformations in the internal organization and international geography of architectural production at several large American architectural firms around information management and the design of design processes from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s.
Weng’s dissertation, “Environmental Conduits in China: Pipe Politics, Fluid Management, and the Rise of the Global Airscape,” investigates the evolution of heating and cooling conduits in China through three episodes in the twentieth century and examines how information-controlled material flows gave rise to a global airscape that generated thermal inequalities between kinetic elites and migrant workers through architecture.
The Carter Manny Award 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—has granted 45 awards and 139 citations representing over $1 million in support of this important student work since its establishment in 1996.
The 2023 Carter Many Awards panel included: Eva Díaz (Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, Pratt); Ginger Nolan (Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Southern California); and Adedoyin Teriba (Assistant Professor of Art History, Dartmouth).
Below is the full list of the 2023 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.
2023 CARTER MANNY WRITING AWARD
Aaron Tobey
Drawing Management: Corporate Organization, International Practice, and the Making of Computer Aided Design
Yale University, School of Architecture
2023 CARTER MANNY RESEARCH AWARD
Jia Weng
Environmental Conduits in China: Pipe Politics, Fluid Management, and the Rise of the Global Airscape
Yale University, School of Architecture
2023 CARTER MANNY WRITING AWARD CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION
An Tairan
The Incidental Artifactuality of the Observational Sciences in Italy, c. 1840–1880
Princeton University, School of Architecture
This project investigates the erratic media byproducts and unintended artifactual consequences both triggered and revealed by a group of research institutions established for the scientific observation of nature in mid-to-late nineteenth-century Italy.
Deepthi Bathala
Famine crops, Plantations, and Environmental Imaginaries: Botanical gardens in colonial and contemporary India
University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
The genealogy of the earliest colonial botanical gardens in India illustrates a contingent colonial project of improvement, that of constructing regional climate imaginaries corresponding to ephemeral agricultural landscapes, contested, mediated and negotiated by human and non-human actors.
Michael Moynihan
Aggregative Expertise: A Global History of Housing, Information Science, and the Deprofessionalization of the Architect, 1973–82
Cornell University, Department of Architecture
This dissertation focuses on three projects funded by national governments (Mexico, Argentina, and Spain) to demonstrate that in the 1970s, expertise related to housing shifted from professional architects to aggregate experts working in entrepreneurial/consultancy groups, governmental research institutions, and international development aid agencies.
Chelsea Spencer
The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building, 1870–1930
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning
At once a media history of the construction industry and a shadow history of modern architecture, this dissertation traces the rise of general contracting in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Sylvia Wu
Mosques on the Edge: Tale and Survival of Muslim Monuments in Coastal China
University of Chicago, Department of Art History
The dissertation is a close study of the Qingjing Mosque complex in Quanzhou, China, whose medieval and contemporary sections have distinct histories but are made to conform to a coherent historical narrative that subsequently allows the site's newly constructed architectural profile to eclipse that of its premodern past.
2022 CARTER MANNY RESEARCH AWARD CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Angelika Joseph
Red Power Takeover: Native American Activists, Colonial Landscapes, and the Design of Sovereignty
Princeton University, Humanities Council and School of Architecture
This dissertation examines the strategies by which Red Power Movement activists designed social, cultural, and political transformations, weaponizing landscapes shaped by their oppressors against the state and creating new worlds within old architectural forms.
Adam Longenbach
Stagecraft / Warcraft: The Rise of the Military Mock Village in the American West, 1942–1953
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
This dissertation investigates the mid-twentieth century rise of the military "mock village," experimental sites where novel ways of seeing and constructing architecture coincided with the production of new forms of violence and destruction.
Qiran Shang
“It’s Only Dancing…”: Urban Spaces, Pleasure, and Resistance in Berlin, San Francisco, and Shanghai, 1924–1989
University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design
Analyzing how people have historically made spaces of popular dance into sites of resistance, this dissertation illuminates gay and lesbian dance venues in 1920s Berlin, countercultural landscapes of dance in 1960s San Francisco, and students’ spontaneous dance parties and queer ballrooms in 1980s Shanghai by studying rare films and photographs, memoirs, oral testimonies, as well as maps and building plans.
UPCOMING GRANT DEADLINES
2024 Grants to Individuals: application due September 15, 2023
2024 Carter Manny Award: application available September 15; due November 15, 2023
2024 Grants to Organizations: application available January 15, 2024; due February 25, 2024
Images: [1] Screen photograph of the interface of DRAW3D displaying a three-dimensional wireframe model of Chicago's "loop" district compiled using several other graphic and non-graphic programs created at SOM for DEC mainframe computers and Tektronix Graphics Terminals by the beginning of the 1980s, 1980, Chicago. Courtesy SOM / Copyright SOM
[2] Thomas T. K. Zung and Shoji Sadao, China International Trade Center, Tianjin or Beijing, China, 1986–89. From Thomas T. K. Zung, ed., "Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the Millennium," (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 2014). Courtesy Thomas T. K. Zung
2024 grants to individuals inquiry form, due September 15, 2023
Supporting individuals is at the core of the Graham Foundation’s mission to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The original grantmaking program of the Foundation was designed to provide direct support to individuals.
Since its founding in 1956, the Graham Foundation has awarded over 5,000 grants—with over 2,800 grants awarded to individuals, representing an investment of more than 20 million USD. Such support has gone to emerging and established architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, scholars, writers, and other individuals working in the field of architecture.
As one of the few funders of individuals in the field of architecture, the Foundation's grants provide important support for individuals to conduct research, and produce exhibitions, publications, and other projects that engage ideas across contemporary architecture discourse. Through its annual open call—a two-stage application process—the Graham Foundation offers two types of grants to individuals: Research and Production + Presentation grants.
The first stage inquiry form for 2024 is now available online and is due September 15, 2023. For more information about the Graham Foundation grantmaking programs and eligibility requirements—and to explore hundreds of funded projects from the last decade—visit grahamfoundation.org.
Upcoming grant application deadlines
2024 grants to individuals: inquiry form available, due September 15, 2023
2024 Carter Manny award: application available September 15, due November 15, 2023
2024 grants to organizations: inquiry form available January 13, 2024, due February 25, 2024
Image: Amaza Lee Meredith Scrapbook, Azurest South (Negative), n.d. Photograph, 4 x 6 in. Courtesy Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia. From the 2023 grant to Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation for the exhibition "Dear Mazie,"
The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 38 grants to organizations worldwide that support projects—including exhibitions, publications, and other public presentations—that foster the development and exchange of ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society, furthering the mission of the Graham Foundation. Collectively, these projects explore different issues, methods, and platforms of contemporary architecture discourse and feature work by architects, archivists, artists, curators, designers, educators, and other professionals working with organizations around the world in cities such as Beirut, Los Angeles, Richmond, Tijuana, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based.
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 $43 million in direct support to over 5,000 projects by organizations and individuals. Learn more about each project by clicking the links below.
Learn more about each project by clicking the links below to explore a dedicated project page here.
EXHIBITIONS
ArchiteXX (Syracuse, NY)
Spatializing Reproductive Justice
Art Omi (Ghent, NY)
Olalekan Jeyifous: Even in Arcadia...
Chicago Architecture Biennial (Chicago)
CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Chicago Architecture Center (Chicago)
OUR CHANGING DOWNTOWN: International Residency with ChartierDalix, Paris
Citygroup (New York)
Citygroup Exhibition Program, 2023
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York)
Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial
Del Vaz Projects (Los Angeles, CA)
Alma Allen & Su Wu: Site Repair
Dia Art Foundation (New York)
Cameron Rowland at Dia Beacon
Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, IL)
A Love Supreme
Landmark Columbus Foundation (Columbus, IN)
Public by Design, 2023 Exhibit Columbus
The Renaissance Society (Chicago)
Dala Nasser
SPACES (Cleveland, OH)
Everlasting Plastics, US Pavilion, 18th International Architecture Exhibition
University of Texas at Austin—School of Architecture (Austin, TX)
The Black Home as Public Art
Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation (Richmond, VA)
Dear Mazie,
FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS
Architectural Association School of Architecture (London)
Entangled Archive: a digital framework for collecting and sharing the dispersed legacy of the AA Department of Tropical Architecture
The School of Architecture (Scottsdale, AZ)
Seabreeze Bop City
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago)
2024 Design Matters Conference
Geoffrey Bawa Trust (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
On Gardens: Contemplating the Relative in Space, Time, and Life
Harvard University—Graduate School of Design, African American Student Union (Cambridge, MA)
The Black Home, Black in Design Conference 2023
SALAA (Tijuana, Mexico)
Rethinking Architecture Education in Latin America
The World Around (New York)
The World Around Summit 2024
PUBLICATIONS
a83 (New York)
Architectural Image-Making in 1980s New York: The John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers Collection
Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal, Canada)
AP205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the Archive by Studio Muoto, Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Dark Matter U (Philadelphia, PA)
Challenging Patterns of Supremacy: Provocations from Collective Pedagogy, Practice, and Organizing
Dongola (Beirut, Lebanon)
Provoking the Territory: Bernard Khoury
i press (Boston, MA)
Revisiting the i press Series on the Human Environment by Mary Otis Stevens
LIGA—Space for Architecture (Mexico City)
The missing architect
Loudreaders (Ames, IA)
The LOUDREADER
New York Review of Architecture (New York)
Los Angeles Review of Architecture
Soberscove Press (Chicago)
In the Horizontal Plane: taisha paggett performance works
University of Illinois at Chicago—School of Architecture (Chicago)
The UIC/SoArch Journal
Victoria and Albert Museum (London)
Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa and South Asia
STUDENT-LED PUBLICATIONS
Paprika! (New Haven, CT)
Paprika! Volume IX
Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston)
PLAT 13
Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, Canada)
SPACE FOR FREE
University of California, Berkeley—Architecture Department (Berkeley, CA)
Arkisnak
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles)
POOL, Issue No. 09
University of Southern California—School of Architecture (Los Angeles)
SPACE, Vol. 1: Delirium
Upcoming Grant Deadlines
2024 grants to individuals: inquiry form deadline: September 15, 2023
2024 Carter Manny award: application available: September 15, 2023; due November 15, 2023
2024 grants to organizations: application available January 15, 2024; due February 25, 2024
Huda Tayob, "Index of Edges," 2023. Archival college. Courtesy Huda Tayob. From the 2023 grant to Huda Tayob for the installation Index of Edges, opening in The Laboratory of the Future, 18th International Architecture Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia
The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the award of 64 new grants to individuals working to realize innovative and interdisciplinary ideas that contribute critical perspectives on architecture and design. Selected from approximately 500 submissions, the funded projects include publications, research, exhibitions, films, podcasts, digital initiatives, public programs and other formats that further ideas, discussions, and new understandings of architecture. The funded projects are led by 92 individuals that include established and emerging architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, historians, and writers, based in cities such as Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Ahmedabad, India; Bandung, Indonesia; Beirut, Lebanon; Buenos Aires, Argentina; New York, NY; Paris, France; Oklahoma City, OK; Porto, Portugal; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and Chicago, IL where the Graham Foundation is based.
Among the funded projects in the 2023 award cycle are several installations that open in the 18th International Architecture Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia, Venice this week. Projects presented in the main exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future, curated by Graham Foundation grantee Lesley Lokko include: The Uhuru Catalogues by Thandi Loewenson; TEXTURAL THRESHOLD HAIR SALON: Dreadlock by Felecia Davis; Black City Astrolabe by J. Yolande Daniels; and Index of Edges by Huda Tayob. In national pavilions, 2023 individual grantee projects include: La Casa Tappeto by Giovanni Bellotti, Alessandra Covini, and Adelita Husni-Bey in the Italian Pavilion curated by Fosbury Architecture; and Labor (Un)settlement and Migration Futures by N H D M: Nahyun Hwang and David Moon in the Korean Pavilion curated by artistic directors Soik Jung and Kyong Park.
The Graham Foundation also made a special grant to Cleveland-based SPACES, for their commission of the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year. The pavilion features the exhibition, Everlasting Plastics, curated by Tizziana Baldenebro and Lauren Leving, with the artists Xavi Laida Aguirre, Simon Anton, Ang Li, Norman Teague, and Lauren Yeager.
The 2023 grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 67 years. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than $43 million dollars in direct support to over 5,000 projects by individuals and organizations around the world. Learn more about each project by clicking the links below.
EXHIBITIONS
KJ Abudu (Lagos, Nigeria; London, United Kingdom; and New York, NY)
Traces of Ecstasy
Giovanni Bellotti, Alessandra Covini, and Adelita Husni-Bey (New York, NY, and Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
La Casa Tappeto
Radhi Ben Hadid, Meriem Chabani, and John Edom (Paris, France)
Muqarnas—Sacred Grounds
Gabriel Cira, James Heard, and Julian Phillips (Boston, MA)
Stull & Lee: Black Architecture Vision for an Infrastructural City
J. Yolande Daniels (Cambridge, MA)
Black City Astrolabe
Felecia Davis (State College, PA)
TEXTURAL THRESHOLD HAIR SALON: Dreadlock
Megan Echols and Dana McKinney (Miami, FL and Washington, DC)
Black—Still
N H D M: Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon (New York, NY)
Migrating Futures
Chandra M. Laborde (San Francisco, CA)
Transecological (Re)Imaginations in the Tenderloin
Thandi Loewenson (London, United Kingdom)
The Uhuru Catalogues
Andrea Molina Cuadro (New York, NY)
Geo-Fantasies: A Space Race on Planet Earth
Marco Piscitelli (Oklahoma City, OK)
Rust on a Razor Blade: Mickey Muennig in Big Sur, 1970–2000
Tivon Rice (Seattle, WA)
A Pattern Language for Spatial Adjacencies
Huda Tayob (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Index of Edges
FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS
Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn (London, United Kingdom and New York, NY)
Design Emergency
Becky Beamer and Jori Erdman (Charlottesville, VA and Oslo, Norway)
Witness: Design of the Tougaloo Center for Racial Justice and Equity
Joseph Bedford (Blacksburg, VA)
Attention Audio Journal, Issues 8, 9, and 10
Kenny Cupers, Makau Kitata, and Chao Tayiana Maina (Basel, Switzerland and Nairobi, Kenya)
Kamirithu Theatre: An Architecture for Decolonization
Maria Gaspar (Chicago, IL)
I Believe in the Things You Cannot See
Ana Miljački (Boston, MA)
I Would Prefer Not To
Vaissnavi Shukl (Ahmedabad, India)
Architecture Off-Centre
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Isabel Duarte, Maya Ober, and Nina Paim (Basel, Switzerland and Porto, Portugal)
Etceteras: feminist festival of design and publishing
Liz Gálvez and José Ibarra (Denver, CO and New York, NY)
Latinx Coalition Chats
PUBLICATIONS
Carla Aramouny and Sandra Frem (Beirut, Lebanon)
Shifting Grounds [the ground between form and practice in Beirut]
Anna Bokov (New York, NY)
From Method to Style: “Elements of Spatial Composition” and Architectural Pedagogy after Vkhutemas
Kofi Boone and M. Elen Deming (Durham and Raleigh, NC)
Empty Pedestals: Narratives on History, Race and Public Design
Craig Buckley (New York, NY)
The Street and the Screen: Architectures of Spectatorship in the Age of Cinema
Íñigo Cornago Bonal, Vishwanath Kashikar, and Christoph Lueder (Ahmedabad, India and London, United Kingdom)
How to Build with Time? Learning from Bimanagar, Ahmedabad, India
Alexander Eisenschmidt (Chicago, IL)
Félix Candela from Mexico City to Chicago: Rise and Fall of Experimentation in Concrete
Makram el Kadi and Ziad Jamaleddine (Beirut, Lebanon and New York, NY)
From the Mountain to the Sea: Architectural Excursions in the Lebanese Landscape and Beyond
Yun Fu (Cambridge, MA)
Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground
Arnika Fuhrmann (Ithaca, NY)
In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City
Anna Goodman (Portland, OR)
Citizen Architects: How Hands-on Building in Architectural Education Shaped a Nation
Elisavet Hasa (London, United Kingdom)
Building Solidarity Architectures: Social Movements, Welfare Crisis and State Abandonment
Lydia Kallipoliti and Areti Markopoulou (Barcelona, Spain and New York, NY)
EDIBLE; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism
John Keenen (New York, NY)
Tony Smith Architecture Catalogue Raisonné
Gili Merin (Vienna, Austria)
Analogous Jerusalem
Faiza Moatasim (Los Angeles, CA)
Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad
Léa Namer (Paris, France)
Chacarita Moderna: The Brutalist Necropolis of Buenos Aires by the Architect Itala Fulvia Villa
Anjulie Rao (Chicago, IL)
Weathered, Season 2
Judith Raum (Berlin, Germany)
Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió (San Diego, CA)
Inland Empire: Settler Colonialism, Modern Architecture, and the Rise of American Hegemony
Davide Spina (Zurich, Switzerland)
Roman Leviathan: Architecture and Capitalism in Postwar Italy
Oscar Tuazon (Los Angeles, CA)
Los Angeles Water School
Stathis G. Yeros (Gainesville, FL)
Queering Urbanism: Architecture, Embodiment, and Queer Citizenship
Claire Zimmerman (Ann Arbor, MI)
Albert Kahn, Inc. and the Architecture of Capitalism, 1905–1961
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Gouled Ahmed and Asmaa Jama (Bristol, United Kingdom and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Together we fled a realm
Toby Altman (Chicago, IL)
Prairie School
Carmen Amengual (Los Angeles, CA)
A Non-Coincidental Mirror
Tutin Aryanti (Bandung, Indonesia)
Women’s Prayer Space: The Politics of Sex Segregation
Minne Atairu (New York, NY)
The Menstrual Isolation Room is a Spa!
Bruno Borgna, Mauricio Corbalán, and Pío Torroja (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Giving Voice to the Río de La Plata Basin
Stephanie Choi (New York, NY)
Twilight Requiem
Yasmina El Chami (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Building “International Goodwill”: American Campuses in the “Near East,” 1919–1964
Design Earth: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy (Cambridge, MA)
Elephant in the Room, and Other Fables
Curry J. Hackett (Boston, MA)
Drylongso: Imaging the Black Landscape
Suzy Halajian and Noah Simblist (Los Angeles, CA and Richmond, VA)
Cracks in the Edifice: Niemeyer’s Futuristic Fairground in Tripoli
Nusaibah Khan (Portland, OR)
Productive Landscapes in Srinagar—A Case of Floating Gardens and Hanji Settlements of Dal Lake
Sharon Leung (Los Angeles, CA)
An Ode to Basement Workshop 1971–86
Paula Koeler Lira and Tatiana Pinto (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Stockholm, Sweden)
Entangled Ecologies
Camila Palomino and Sean Vegezzi (New York, NY)
Civic Gaze
Deepa Ramaswamy (Houston, TX)
Reclaimed Lands: The Ecological Legacies of Colonial Bombay’s Coasts
Alex Strada (New York, NY)
House of D
Feifei Zhou (New York, NY)
Between Land and Water—Architecture of Porosity
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
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