Deadline: September 15, 2019

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, 2019.

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 Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 63 new grants to individuals worldwide that support projects on architecture. Grantee projects represent diverse lines of inquiry engaging original ideas that advance our understanding of the designed environment. Selected from over 500 proposals, the funded projects include exhibitions, publications, films, and performances that promote rigorous scholarship, stimulate experimentation, and foster critical discourse in architecture. The individuals leading these projects are based in cities such as Ahmedabad, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Cairo, London, Milan, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. The innovative projects are led by eminent and emerging architects, artists, curators, filmmakers, historians, and photographers, among other professionals.

The new grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 63 years. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than 4,500 grants, and has become one of the most significant funders in the field of architecture.

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

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

EXHIBITIONS (8)

Florencia Alvarez Pacheco (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Petra Bachmaier, Sean Gallero, and Iker Gil (Chicago, IL), Nandini Bagchee and Marlisa Wise (New York, NY), Shumi Bose, Emma Letizia Jones, Guillaume Othenin-Girard, and Nemanja Zimonjić (London, United Kingdom and Zürich, Switzerland), Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon (New York, NY), Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow (Chicago, IL), Sahra Motalebi (New York, NY), Anna Neimark (Los Angeles, CA)

FILM/VIDEO/NEW MEDIA PROJECTS (5)

Rodrigo Brum and Sama Waly (Cairo, Egypt), Dani Gal (Berlin, Germany), Sara R. Harris and Jesse Lerner (Los Angeles, CA), Sean Lally (Lausanne, Switzerland), Lisa Malloy and J.P. Sniadecki (Evanston, IL and Redmond, WA)

PUBLIC PROGRAMS (2)

The Extrapolation Factory: Elliott P. Montgomery and Chris Woebken (New York, NY), Anna Martine Whitehead (Chicago, IL)

PUBLICATIONS (30)

Pep Avilés and Matthew Kennedy (Mexico City, Mexico and University Park, PA), Andrea Bagnato and Anna Positano (Genoa, Italy and Milan, Italy), Claire Bishop (New York, NY), Anna Bokov (New York, NY), Larry D. Busbea (Tucson, AZ), Sara Jensen Carr (Boston, MA), Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris, and Anna-Maria Meister (Munich, Germany; New York, NY; and Princeton, NJ), Elisa Dainese and Aleksandar Staničić (Delft, the Netherlands and Halifax, Canada), Marco Ferrari, Elisa Pasqual, and Andrea Bagnato (Milan, Italy), Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, and Niloufar Tajeri (Berlin, Germany), Vanessa Grossman, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, and Ciro Miguel (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Zurich, Switzerland), Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff (Baldwin, NY and Lancaster, PA), Eric Höweler and Meejin Yoon (Ithaca, NY and Boston, MA), Beth Hughes and Adrian Lahoud (London, United Kingdom and Sydney, Australia), Robert Hutchison (Seattle, WA), Pamela Johnston (London, United Kingdom), Seng Kuan (Cambridge, MA), George Legrady (Santa Barbara, CA), Zhongjie Lin (Philadelphia, PA), Brian McGrath and Sereypagna Pen (New York, NY and Phnom Penh, Cambodia), Lala Meredith-Vula (Leicester, United Kingdom), Ginger Nolan (Los Angeles, CA), Todd Reisz (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Erin Eckhold Sassin (Middlebury, VT), Steve Seid (Richmond, CA), Katherine Smith (Decatur, GA), Susan Snodgrass (Chicago, IL), Penny Sparke (London, United Kingdom), Mark Wasiuta (New York, NY), Folayemi (Fo) Wilson (Chicago, IL)

RESEARCH PROJECTS (18)

Miquel Adrià (Mexico City, Mexico), Joshua Barone, Phillip Denny, and Eléonore Schöffer (Cambridge, MA; New York, NY; and Paris, France), Kadambari Baxi (New York, NY), Gauri Bharat (Ahmedabad, India), Santiago Borja (Mexico City, Mexico), Michael Borowski (Blacksburg, VA), Frida Escobedo and Xavier Nueno (Mexico City, Mexico), Assaf Evron and Dan Handel (Chicago, IL and Haifa, Israel), Beate Geissler, Orit Halpern, and Oliver Sann (Chicago, IL and Montréal, Canada), Heather Hart (New York, NY), Alison Hirsch (Los Angeles, CA), Jonathan Mekinda (Chicago, IL), David J. Lewis, Paul Lewis, and Marc Tsurumaki (New York, NY), Onnis Luque and Mariana Ordóñez (Mexico City, Mexico), Giovanna Silva (Milan, Italy), Léa-Catherine Szacka (Manchester, United Kingdom), Jessica Vaughn (New York, NY), Edward A. Vazquez (Middlebury, VT)

Image: Noah Purifoy’s Homage to Frank Gehry, 2000, Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum of Assemblage Sculpture, Joshua Tree, CA. Photo: Sara R. Harris. From the 2019 individual grant to Sara R. Harris and Jesse Lerner for the film These Fragmentations Only Mean ...

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce its partnership in the launch of the Water Tower Arts District. The District convenes fifteen of Chicago’s renowned cultural organizations, all located within walking distance of the historic Chicago Water Tower on Michigan Avenue, in a unique cultural coalition and includes:

(1) The Arts Club of Chicago, (2) Broadway in Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, (3) City Gallery in the Historic Water Tower, (4) Graham Foundation, (5) International Museum of Surgical Science, (6) Lookingglass Theatre Company, (7) Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), (8) Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), (9) the Newberry Library, (10) Poetry Foundation, (11) Porchlight Music Theatre, (12) Richard Gray Gallery, (13) the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, (14) the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, and (15) the Society of Architectural Historians.

The coalition brings synergy to the group’s creative efforts, strengthens the cultural vigor of the community, and encourages citizens and visitors to enjoy and explore the multitude of diverse cultural opportunities in the area.

Inspired by the resilience of the Chicago Water Tower—built in 1869 and one of the only buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871—the Water Tower Arts District extends the legacy of the area which thrived in the early twentieth century as Towertown, an epicenter of the arts akin to Greenwich Village in New York or the Latin Quarter in Paris. Today, the District offers world-class programming in architecture, art, dance, design, film, history, literature, music, performance, and theater. “This important partnership of arts organizations reveals Chicago’s rich cultural diversity available to residents and visitors,” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel.  “The Water Tower Arts District will bring new energy and attention to our local cultural institutions, which are vital to the cultural tourism of our city and state.”

In its first collective effort, the District commissioned Chicago-based artist Assaf Evron to create photographic portraits of all member organizations which feature on the website, designed by Michael Savona and Tobey Albright and Mollie Edgar of Hour, all also local to Chicago. The website features a hotlinked map to all of the organizations, with descriptions and upcoming activities. Each cultural organization brings support and resources to the coalition which, in turn, provides new collective opportunities to serve Chicago and extend and strengthen their educational outreach in the community. Water Tower Arts District members look forward to exploring opportunities that will fuel collaborative creative efforts and activities to further enhance cultural enrichment for the City of Chicago. Follow @watertowerarts on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and visit watertowerarts.org to learn more.

The upcoming partnership with Graham Foundation and Poetry Foundation to present “Near/Miss: Bollingen Prize Poetry Reading,” an evening with American poet Charles Bernstein, represents the initiative to develop integrated programming and special events across member organizations. In the April 16, 6 p.m. program at the Madlener House, Bernstein, recipient of 2019 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry—the premier prize for lifetime achievement in poetry, administered by Yale University—will read poems from Near/Miss (University of Chicago Press, 2018), honored by the prize, and more recent work. Presented on the occasion of the Graham’s current exhibition Eternal Gradient: Arakawa and Madeline Gins, Bernstein will also read works relating to the work of Arakawa and Gins that reflect his decades-long friendship with the artists.

 

The Graham Foundation is thrilled to congratulate Graham Fellows Brendan Fernandes & Martine Syms and grantees Forensic Architecture, Sahra Motalebi, and Diane Simpson on their inclusion in the upcoming 2019 Whitney Biennial.

In the exhibition, Brendan Fernandes will present an expanded version of The Master and Form, commissioned and first exhibited by the Graham Foundation in 2018. The project was an outcome of his 2017/2018 fellowship and artist residency at the Madlener House. The project team includes the Chicago and New Orleans-based architectural design collaborative Norman Kelly.

Click here to read the New York Times feature, including comments by Brendan Fernandes.

Related Graham supported projects:

Brendan Fernandes
2018 Fellowship, The Master and Form
2018 exhibition at the Graham Foundation, The Master and Form Installation in collaboration with Norman Kelley

Martine Syms
2018 Fellowship, Incense Sweaters & Ice
2018 exhibition at the Graham Foundation, Incense Sweaters & Ice
2017 grant to Martine Syms for the exhibition Incense Sweaters & Ice at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Forensic Architecture
2018 grant to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London for the exhibition Counter Investigations: Forensic Architecture
2010 grant to Eyal Weizman for the publication The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence between Arendt and Gaza

Diane Simpson
2018 grant for the research Architecture in Motion


Image: View of Brendan Fernandes: The Master and Form, 2018, Graham Foundation, Chicago. Design: Norman Kelley; dancers: Satoru Iwasaki, Yuha Kamoto, Andrea de León Rivera, Antonio Mannino, Leah Upchurch; photo: Brendan Meara

 

Application Deadline: February 25, 2019

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2019 Grants to Organizations. 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.

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, 2019.

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 2018, the Graham Foundation awarded more than $600,000 for 53 projects by organizations from 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: David Graham, Best Products Company Showroom Façade, 1981, featuring the project by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. (1978). Courtesy of the artist. From the 2018 organizational grant to Canadian Centre for Architecture for the exhibition Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths.

 

2018 Design Matters Conference
Association of Architecture Organizations (2018 Grantee)
Center for Architecture & Design
Seattle, WA
Nov 14–17, 2018

Alfred Caldwell and the Performance of Democracy
Illinois Institute of Technology—Graham Resource Center and Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program (2017 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Performance of Democracy: Thomas Dyja, lecture
Mar 28, 2018
Promontory Point: Sunset Performance: Fred Jackson Jr., performance
Sep 27, 2018
Caldwell Archives and Events Farm Visit
Oct 8, 2018
Democracies at Promontory Point: Kim Soss, lecture
Nov 5, 2018

Chicago Design: Histories and Narratives, Questions and Methods
University of Illinois at Chicago—School of Art & Art History (2017 Grantee)
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Nov 8–10, 2018

Everywhere All the Time
Seán Curran and David Skidmore with Diana Balmori (2017 Grantees)
Premiere
Alys Stephens Center for the Performing Arts
Birmingham, AL
Oct 5, 2018
Next Wave Festival
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn, NY
Oct 24–27, 2018

LAMPO 2018 Concert Series
Lampo (2018 Grantee)
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Chicago, IL

 

Image: Seán Curran and David Skidmore (Third Coast Percussion), Everywhere All the Time, 2018. Set design by Diana Balmori. From the 2017 individual grant to Seán Curran and David Skidmore for Everywhere All the Time

 

Concrete Spring: Oscar Niemeyer, Algeria, and the Architecture of Revolution
Jason Oddy (2017 Grantee)
Oddy, Jason. "The Revolution will be Stopped Halfway." FAKTUR, 1:1 (2018).

The Dictator's Dreamscape: Building Machado's Cuba
Joseph R. Hartman (2018 Grantee)
Hartman, Joseph R. “Race, Gender, Giants: Consensus and Dissensus in Cuban Cultural Politics.” Cultural Politics, 14:2 (2018): 174–197.

Le Corbusier’s Response to World War II: Les Maisons Murondins
Mary McLeod (2015 Grantee)
McLeod, Mary. “‘To make something with nothing’: Le Corbusier’s proposal for refugee housing—Les Constructions ‘Murondins’.” The Journal of Architecture, 23:3 (2018): 421–447.

The Ship of Theseus: Identity and the Barcelona Pavilion(s)
Lance Hosey (2001 Grantee)
Hosey, Lance. “The Ship of Theseus: Identity and the Barcelona Pavilion(s),” Journal of Architectural Education, 72:2 (2018): 230–24

Terra Infecta
Andrea Bagnato (2017 Grantee)
Bagnato, Andrea and Anna Positano. “Arrivederci ad Arborea.” Migrant Journal 5 (2018): 94–103.

Carter Manny Award dissertation:

 

An American City: Volume I & II
Edited by Michelle Grabner
FRONT Exhibition Company (2017 Grantee)

An Anatomy of Influence
Thomas Daniell (2015 Grantee)
Architectural Association Publications

Automatic Architecture: Motivating Form after Modernism
Sean Keller (2016 Grantee)
University of Chicago Press

The Black Flame of Paradise
Zachary Cahill (2018 Grantee)
Mousse Publishing

Bogdanović by Bogdanović: Yugoslav Memorials through the Eyes of their Architect
Vladimir Kulić (2018 Grantee)
The Museum of Modern Art

Catherine Wagner: Archæology in Reverse
Rudolf Freiling and Catherine Wagner. Edited by Stephanie Hanor
Mills College Art Museum (2018 Grantee)

Counter-Signals 3: (All the Way) Down with Platforms
Edited by Other Forms: Jack Henrie Fisher and Alan Smart (2018 Grantee)

Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson (2017 Grantee)
University of Texas Press

Design as Learning: A School of Schools Reader
Edited by Jan Boelen
Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (2018 Grantee)
Valiz

The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids
Alexandra Lange (2016 Grantee)
Bloomsbury Publishing

Dimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from the Body to the Cosmos
Edited by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Ann Lui, and Mimi Zeiger
School of the Art Institute of Chicago and The University of Chicago (2018 Grantees)
Inventory Press

Downward Spiral: El Helicoide's Descent from Mall to Prison (Urban Research Volume 12)
Edited by Lisa Blackmore and Celeste Olalquiaga
Terreform Inc. (2016 Grantee)

The Eternal Internet Brother/Sisterhood
Angelo Plessas (2017 Grantee)
NERO

Exhausted Geographies II
Zahra Malkani and Shahana Rajani (2018 Grantees)

Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada's Global Resource Empire, 2017–1217
Edited by Pierre Bélanger and Nina-Marie Lister (2016 Grantees)
MIT Press

Flat Out 3 (Fall 2018)
Edited by Penelope Dean
Flat Out Inc. (2017 Grantee)

Frida Escobedo: Serpentine Pavilion 2018
Edited by Joseph Constable and Rebecca Lewin
Serpentine Galleries (2018 Grantee)
Koenig Books and Serpentine Galleries

The Funambulist, Issue Nos. 15–20
Edited by Léopold Lambert
The Funambulist (2016 Grantee)

Future Archive series
Edited by Nancy Levinson and Josh Wallaert
Places Journal (2014)

Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment
Edited by Design Earth: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy (2017 Grantee)
Actar Publishers

Giedion and America: Repositioning the History of Modern Architecture
Reto Geiser (2017 Grantee)
gta Verlag/ETH Zurich

Global Tools 1973–1975: When Education Coincides with Life
Edited by Valerio Borgonuovo and Silvia Franceschini (2018 Grantees)
NERO Editions

Goodbye, World! Looking at Art in the Digital Age
Omar Kholeif (2017 Grantee)
Sternberg Press

Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus
Lori Waxman (2016 Grantee)
Sternberg Press

LA Forum Reader: From the Archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
Edited by Rob Berry, Chava Danielson, Joe Day, Thurman Grant, Victor Jones, Duane McLemore, Michael Sweeney, and Mimi Zeiger
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design (2013 Grantee)
Actar Publishers and the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Le Corbusier: The Built Work
Jean-Louis Cohen and Richard Pare
Richard Pare (2015 Grantee)
The Monacelli Press

The Letters of Colin Rowe: Five Decades of Correspondence
Edited by Daniel Naegele (2012 Grantee)
Artiface

Letters to the Leaders of China: Kongjian Yu and the Future of the Chinese City (Urban Research Volume 8)
Edited by Terreform Inc. (2016 Grantee)

The Location of Justice series
Edited by Mariana Mogilevich and Olivia Schwob
The Architectural League of New York (2017 Grantee)

Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, Issues 42–44
Edited by Cynthia Davidson
Anyone Corporation (2017 Grantee)

Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions
Edited by Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey (2017 Grantees)
Lars Müller Publishers

Making LA Modern: Craig Ellwood—Myth | Man | Designer
Edited by Michael Boyd (2016 Grantee)
Rizzoli

The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
Mark Lamster (2010 Grantee)
Little, Brown and Company

MASS X: Precise Form for an Imprecise World, Selected Things 2000–2017, Neil M. Denari Architects
Neil Denari (2012 Grantee)
AADCU

Michael Webb: Two Journeys
Edited by Ashley Simone
Michael Webb (2014 Grantee)
Lars Müller Publishers

Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space
Martino Stierli (2016 Grantee)
Yale University Press

New Geographies 09: Post-Human
Edited by Mariano Gomez-Luque and Ghazal Jafari
Harvard University—Graduate School of Design (2017 Grantee)
Actar Publishers and Harvard University Graduate School of Design

NYC Bronx Art Deco Architecture
Addison Thompson (1992 Grantee)
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship, and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA 1984/87
Esra Akcan (2017 Grantee)
Birkhauser-De Gruyter

Overgrown: Practice between Landscape Architecture and Gardening
Julian Raxworthy (2018 Grantee)
MIT Press

Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau: A 21st Century Show Home
Edited by Felix Burrichter, Simon Castets, and Karen Marta
Swiss Institute (2015 Grantee)

Phenotypes/Limited Forms
Peter Hanappe and Armin Linke
Peter Hanappe, Bruno Latour, and Armin Linke (2013 Grantees)
Lars Müller Publishers

PLAT 7.0 Sharing
Edited by Francis Aguillard and Samantha Schuermann
Rice University—School of Architecture (2017 Grantee)

POOL, Issue No. 3: Party
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (2018 Grantee)

Possible Mediums
Edited by Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, Adam Fure, and Kyle Miller (2018 Grantees)
Actar Publishers

Project: A Journal for Architecture, Issue No. 7
Edited by Alfie Koetter, Daniel Markiewicz, and Emmett Zeifman
Project: A Journal for Architecture (2017 Grantee)
Consolidated Urbanism, Inc.

Richard Rezac: Address
Edited by Solveig Øvstebø and Richard Rezac
The Renaissance Society (2017 Grantee)

Rifat Chadirji: Building Index
Edited by Mark Wasiuta and Akram Zaatari
Arab Image Foundation (2016 Grantee)
Kaph Books and Arab Image Foundation

Robert Irwin: Site Determined
Edited by Matthew Simms
California State University Long Beach–University Art Museum (2016 Grantee)
Prestel

Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism
Edited by Gareth Doherty (2014 Grantee)
Lars Müller Publishers

The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism
Joseph Becker and Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2018 Grantee)

Slab City: Dispatches from the Last Free Place
Charlie Hailey and Donovan Wylie (2016 Grantees)
MIT Press

Space Packed: The Architecture of Alfred Neumann
Rafi Segal (2012 Grantee)
Park Books

Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition (Urban Research Volume 11)
Jordan H. Carver
Terreform Inc. (2016 Grantee)

The Spoils of Dust: Reinventing the Lake that Made Los Angeles
Alexander Robinson (2018 Grantee)
Applied Research + Design Publishing

Superhumanity: Design of the Self
Edited by Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, and Mark Wigley
e-flux Architecture (2017 Grantee)
e-flux Architecture, Graham Foundation, and University of Minnesota Press

Swimming to Suburbia and Other Essays
Todd Gannon and Craig Hodgetts (2015 Grantees)
ORO Editions

Take Shape no. 2: Commute
Edited by Nolan Boomer, Cole Cataneo, and Julia Llinas Goodman
Nolan Boomer, Cole Cataneo, Julia Llinas Goodman, and Sean Suchara (2018 Grantees)

Terms of Appropriation: Modern Architecture and Global Exchange
Edited by Amanda Reeser Lawrence and Ana Miljački (2016 Grantees)
Routledge

Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980
Edited by Martino Stierli and Vladimir Kulić
The Museum of Modern Art (2017 Grantee)

VORKURS: exquisite corpse
Edited by Kristel Bataku, Jamie Lindsey, Thiago Silvino, and Rachel Vuchinich
University of Florida—School of Architecture (2017 Grantee)

Zaha Hadid, Phaeno Science Centre
Edited by Greg Lynn
Archaeology of the Digital series
Canadian Centre for Architecture (2014 Grantee)

 

Image: Selection of publications released in 2018 with support from the Graham Foundation. Photo: Ava Barrett

 

The following exhibitions were supported by Graham Foundation grants and opened in 2018.

Currently on view:

Folly/Function 2018: RRRolling Stones
Socrates Sculpture Park (2017 Grantee)
Long Island City, NY
Jul 12–Dec 31, 2018

Secret Cities: The Architecture and Planning of the Manhattan Project
Curated by G. Martin Moeller, Jr.
National Building Museum (2016 Grantee)
Washington, DC
May 3, 2018–July 28, 2019

Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980
Curated by Martino Stierli and Vladimir Kulić
The Museum of Modern Art (2017 Grantee)
New York, NY
Jul 15, 2018–Jan 13, 2019

 

Other 2018 exhibitions:

Archive and Artifact: The Virtual and the Physical
Curated by Steven Hillyer
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art—Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture (2017 Grantee)
The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
New York, NY
Oct 23–Dec 1, 2018

FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
Curated by Michelle Grabner
FRONT Exhibition Company (2017 Grantee)
Cleveland, OH
July 14–Sep 30, 2018

Groundtruthing
Zahra Malkani and Shahana Rajani (2017 Grantees)
Gandhara Art Space
Karachi, Pakistan
Apr 19–May 10, 2018

Liverpool Biennial 2018: Ryan Gander, Holly Hendry, and Mae-ling Lokko Commissions
Curated by Kitty Scott and Sally Tallant
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art (2017 Grantee)
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Jul 14–Oct 28, 2018

Marching On: The Politics of Performance
Curated by Bryony Roberts, Mabel Wilson, Eva Franch i Gilabert, and Carlos Mínguez Carrasco
Storefront for Art and Architecture (2017 Grantee)
New York, NY
Apr 14–Jun 9, 2018

Mel Chin: All Over the Place
Curated by Laura Raicovich and Manon Slome
Queens Museum (2017 Grantee)
New York, NY
Apr 8–Aug 12, 2018

Privacies Infrastructure
Curated by Jia Gu and Aurora Tang
Materials & Applications (2017 Grantee)
Los Angeles, CA
Jul 21–Sep 30, 2018

Richard Rezac: Address
Curated by Solveig Øvstebø
The Renaissance Society (2017 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Apr 21–Jun 17, 2018

Robert Irwin: Site Determined
Curated by Matthew Simms
California State University Long Beach—University Art Museum (2016 Grantee)
Long Beach, CA
Jan 29–Apr 15, 2018

Serpentine Pavilion 2018 by Frida Escobedo
Serpentine Galleries (2018 Grantee)
London, United Kingdom
Jun 15–Oct 7, 2018

Wooden Mosques: Islamic Architectural Heritage in Adjara, Georgia
Curated by Suzanne Harris-Brandts and Angela Wheeler (2017 Grantees)
Contemporary Art Space Batumi
Batumi, Georgia
Jan 19–Mar 19, 2018

 

Image: Gordon Hall, The Number of Inches Between Them, pigmented cast concrete and color poster multiple, presented at Steel House Projects and the Winter Street Warehouse, 2017 Rockland, ME. Performers: Mary Bok, Gordon Hall, Alan Crichton, Del Hickey, Susan Schor, Millie Kapp, and Chris Domenick. Courtesy of the artist. From the 2018 individual grant to Gordon Hall for The Number of Inches Between Them

 

Films premiered in 2018:

The Area
Directed by David Schalliol (2014 Grantee)
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, premier
Durham, NC
Apr 2018
Black Harvest Film Festival
Chicago, IL
Sep 14–27, 2018

Gropius Memory Palace
Directed by Ben Thorp Brown (2018 Grantee)
New York Film Festival, North American premier
Oct 4–6, 2018

 

New media projects—digital publications released in 2018:

Archaeology of the Digital series
Canadian Centre for Architecture (2014 Grantee)
Lynn, Greg (ed.). Zaha Hadid, Phaeno Science Centre

Future Archive series
Places Journal (2014 Grantee)
Long, Christopher. “Apostle and Apostate: Josef Frank’s Modernist Vision”
Penner, Barbara. "The (Still) Dreary Deadlock of Public Housing"
Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona. "Memorandum on the Plan for Jerusalem"

Location of Justice series
The Architectural League of New York (2017 Grantee)
Spaulding, Norman, W. “Due Process and the Enclosure of Justice”
Altman, Anna. “The People’s Court”
Mogilevich, Mariana. “Structures: Perspectives”
Urban Omnibus. “Siting Rikers’ Replacements”
Gold-LaGratta, Emily, Justin Barry, and Manuel Toscano. “Retrofit for Fairness.
Yes Loitering, “Yes Sitting, Yes Skating, Yes Music”
Graves, Kris, “Beacon/Bunker”
Knoblauch, Joy, “Do You Feel Secure?”
Made in Brownsville, “Stronger Together”
Ebo, Ifeoma, “Design Around the Edges”
Schwob, Olivia, “Walk the Walk”
Haffner, Jeanne, “The Happy Prison”
Burrington, Ingrid, “A Non-Exhaustive Taxonomy of Tools of Data-Driven Policing”
Burrington, Ingrid, “The CompStat Evangelist Consultant World Tour”
Burrington, Ingrid, “Policing Is an Information Business”
Ford, Elizabeth, “Where Care Meets Confinement”
Colon, Andrea, “Where School Meets Prison”
Kelley, Qawaisa, “Where Corrections Meets Connections”
Michael Carey, Eva Raison, John Bruce, Lara Penin, and Eduardo Staszowski. “Reentry: Start Here”
Story, Brett. “Coming Home”

 

New media projects—podcasts produced in 2018:

The Funambulist Podcast
Produced by Léopold Lambert (2015 Grantee)
Episode 127: Francesca Russelo Ammon, “Bulldozer Politics in Cold War US”

Night White Skies
Produced by Sean Lally (2017 Grantee)
Episode 30: Sarah Thomas Karle & David Karle, Conserving the Dust Bowl
Episode 31: Liam Young, Practicing Architect
Episode 32: Christopher Schaberg, Worlds World Worlds
Episode 33: Molly Wright Steenson, Architectural Intelligence
Episode 34: Bradford Bouley, Saintly Anatomy
Episode 35: Sheila Jasanoff, The Ethics of Invention
Episode 36: Fred Scharmen, Climates & Subjectivity
Episode 37: Christopher Hight, Resilience in Sci-Fi
Episode 38: Topical Interlude, Thanks, Larry
Episode 39: Kathryn Harkup, Frankenstein
Episode 40: Chris D. Thomas, Speciation
Episode 41: Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno, Live Models
Episode 42: Mario Carpo, No One Likes a Quitter
Episode 43: Graham Harman, OOO
Episode 44: Sing Yun Lee and Francis Gene Rowe, Ursula K. Le Guin
Episode 45: Bryan Norwood, Phenomenology
Episode 46: Rob DeSalle, Our Senses
Episode 47: Filip Tejchman, Depatterning
Episode 48: Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy, Geostories
Episode 49: Kiel Moe, Empire, State and Building
Episode 50: Paola Antonelli, Broken Nature
Episode 51: Ian Bogost, Cows Ate My Twizzlers
Episode 52: Muchaneta Kapfunde, Fashnerd
Episode 53: Adam Frank, Alien Anthropocenes
Episode 54: Chris Pak, Terraforming in SF
Episode 55: Chris Mc Alorum, The Enabled Landscape

 

Image: David Schalliol, a demolition in The Area, 2012, Chicago, IL. From the 2014 individual grant to David Schalliol for The Area

Photo: Nathan Keay 

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The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Carter Manny Award. Since the establishment of this award in 1996, the Graham Foundation has awarded over $815,000 in recognition of promising doctoral students whose dissertations represent original and advanced scholarship in architecture with exciting potential to move the field in new directions. The applications are reviewed by a diverse panel of recognized scholars within architectural discourse. Two Carter Manny Awards are given each year, one for dissertation research and one for writing. Additionally, this year three students received Citations of Special Recognition.

The winner of the 2018 Carter Manny Award for writing and a $20,000 award is Kylie R. J. Seltzer, a PhD candidate at University of Pittsburgh's Department of History of Art and Architecture. Seltzer's dissertation, Housing Identities: Displaying Race and Environment in Paris, 1870–1892, analyzes the intersection of race and architecture through the subject of housing in nineteenth-century Paris.

The winner of the 2018 Carter Manny Award for research and a $15,000 award is Emine Seda Kayim, PhD candidate in the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. Kayim's dissertation, Stasi as Architectural Producer: Surveillance and Scientific Management in the East German Built Environment, 1961–1989, explores the German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) Ministry of State Security—known as the Stasi—as an architectural producer to examine its largely unexplored involvement in the East German built environment, interrogating the multifaceted and coconstitutive operations of state surveillance and building industry between production and use.

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-eight 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 Alexander Eisenschmidt (Associate Professor, College of Architecture, Design and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago); Alison Fisher (Harold and Margot Schiff Associate Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Art Institute of Chicago); and Alona Nitzan-Shiftan (Associate Professor and Chair, Architecture Program, Technion, Israel 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 2019 Carter Manny Award are due November 15, 2018. To learn more, see the award guidelines here.

 

2018 CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

WRITING

Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Designing “Post-Industrial Society”: Settler Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Palm Springs, California, 1876–1973

RESEARCH

Nicholas Caverly
University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology
Restructured City: Demolition and Toxic Accumulations in Detroit

Rixt Woudstra
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
Minimal Needs, Minimum Standards: Housing, Welfare and Building Research in British Sub-Saharan Africa, 1945–1968

 

Image: Charles Garnier, Preparatory Watercolor of the Waterside, Iron Age, and German dwellings for History of Human Habitations, ca. 1888, Paris. Courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. From the 2018 Carter Manny Award for writing to Kylie R. J. Seltzer for her dissertation Housing Identities: Displaying Race and Environment in Paris, 1870–1892