Graham Foundation Announces Inaugural Fellows of New Fellowship Program:

Brendan Fernandes, Torkwase Dyson, Martine Syms, Mark Wasiuta, and David Hartt

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce its inaugural Fellows as part of the organization’s new Graham Foundation Fellowship program: Brendan Fernandes, Torkwase Dyson, Martine Syms, Mark Wasiuta, and David Hartt. Integrating the Foundation’s grantmaking and exhibition programs, the new Fellowship provides monetary support for the development and production of new and challenging works and the opportunity to present these projects in an exhibition at the Foundation’s Madlener House galleries in Chicago. Artist David Hartt piloted the new program with his new body of work in the forest, which premiered at the Graham in the fall of 2017.

The Fellowship program extends the legacy of the Foundation’s first awards, made in 1957 and 1958. These initial fellowships provided a diverse group of practitioners a platform to pursue experimental ideas in the field, and they included alumni such as Pritzker Prize winning architects Balkrishna V. Doshi and Fumihiko Maki, designer Harry Bertoia, photographer Harry M. Callahan, sculptor Eduardo Chillida, experimental architect Frederick J. Kiesler, and painter Wilfredo Lam, among others. The 2018 Fellows will continue this tradition of exploring new perspectives on spatial practices and design culture.

“As with the very first Fellows of the Graham, this new Fellowship program provides crucial direct support to individuals to make new work possible,” said Graham Foundation Director Sarah Herda, “and creates an opportunity to share this work with new publics through our exhibition program at the Madlener House in Chicago.”

Brendan Fernandes
The Master and Form
Installation in Collaboration with Norman Kelley
January 25–April 7, 2018

Torkwase Dyson
Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Liberation
May 3–July 14, 2018

Martine Syms
Incense, Sweaters, and Ice
September–December, 2018

Mark Wasiuta
The Entenza Years: the Early History of the Graham Foundation, 1960–1971

David Hartt
in the forest

 

Application Deadline: February 25, 2018

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2018 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, 2018.

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 2017, the Graham Foundation awarded more than $413,000 for 42 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: Gordon Matta-Clark working on Conical Intersect, 1975, Paris. Courtesy of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark. From the 2016 organizational grant to Bronx Museum of the Arts for the exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect.

 

Each year the vision of the Graham Foundation to advance new ideas across the field of architecture is realized through our international grantmaking program and the public programs we produce at the Madlener House in Chicago.

In 2017 the Graham Foundation commissioned two original exhibitions at the Madlener House, produced a wide range of public programs, and the award of over $1M in new grants to individuals and organizations around the world.

Also, this year 96 diverse and boundary pushing projects funded by the Graham Foundation were realized in the form of exhibitions, publications, films, performances, research, and site-specific installations.

We are honored to share the compiled list of grantee work that came to fruition in 2017—please read on for select highlights and links to the full list of grantee projects.


Exhibition highlights include: Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design at the Jewish Museum, New York; Victoria Square Project by Rick Lowe at documenta 14, Kassel;  Incense, Sweaters, and Ice by Martine Syms, curated by Jocelyn Miller at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Serpentine Pavilion 2017 by Francis Kéré at the Serpentine Galleries, London.

See the full list of exhibtions here.

Publication highlights include: FOLIO: Journal of African Architecture, edited by Lesley Lokko (GSA Imprints); Muriel Cooper (MIT Press) by David Reinfurt and Robert Wiesenberger; Cedric Price Works, 1952–2003 (Canadian Centre for Architecture and Architectural Association) by Samantha Hardingham; Architecture is All Over (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City) edited by Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter; and Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive (The Museum of Modern Art) edited by Barry Bergdoll and Jennifer Gray.

See the full list of publications here.

Performance and event highlights include: Here Hear Chicago by Nick Cave and Jeanne Gang; Modern Living by Gerard & Kelly; and Black in Design 2017: Designing Resistance, Building Coalitions, a conference organized by Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design African American Student Union.

See the full list events and performances here.

Film and new media highlights include: Housing Works History, a website produced by Gavin Browning, Glen Cummings, and Laura Hanna, which surveys twenty-five years of services built by Housing Works for homeless individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS in New York City; and Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film, directed by Samuel Wainwright Douglas, which follows art collective Postcommodity as they construct Repellent Fence, a two-mile long outdoor artwork that straddled the US-Mexico border.

See the full list film and new media projects here.

Many grantees also participated in this year’s exhibitions and events at the Graham Foundation. Installed in its historic Madlener House, the Foundation commissioned Spaces without drama or surface is an illusion, but so is depth, an exhibition that examined the recent proliferation of collage in architectural representation in relationship to scenography and theatrical set design curated by Wonne Ickx and Ruth Estévez: LIGA-Space for Architecture (Feb 16–Jul 1, 2017). In the fall, the Foundation also presented in the forest (September 14, 2017–January 6, 2018), a new commission by artist David Hartt, investigating the relationship between ideology, architecture, and the environment by revisiting architect Moshe Safdie’s unfinished 1968 Habitat Puerto Rico project. We also presented 26 public programs including talks, performances, and other events. Additionally, the Foundation curated a satellite Graham Foundation Bookshop at the second Chicago Architecture Biennial, a project that the Foundation incubated and launched in partnership with Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in 2015.

Image: Frida Escobedo, installation view of "Tu casa es mi casa," Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, 2017, Los Angeles. Photo: Adam Wiseman. From the 2016 organizational grant to Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design for "Tu casa es mi casa"

 

Exhibitions currently on view:

Bengal Stream: The Vibrant Architecture Scene of Bangladesh
Curated by Niklaus Graber, Andreas Ruby, and Viviane Ehrensberger
S AM Swiss Architecture Museum (2017 Grantee)
Basel, Switzerland
Dec 1, 2017–Jun 6, 2018

Vessel of Change
Bill Ferehawk
The Wende Museum of the Cold War (2015 Grantee)
The Armory
Culver City, CA
Nov 19, 2017–Apr 29, 2018

Obdurate Space: Architecture of Donald Judd
Curated by Claude Armstrong and Donna Cohen (2016 Grantees)
Center for Architecture
New York, NY
Nov 14, 2017–Mar 5, 2018

Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect
Curated by Sergio Bessa and Jessamyn Fiore
Bronx Museum of the Arts (2016 Grantee)
Bronx, NY
Nov 8, 2017–Apr 8, 2018

Scaffolding
Shohei Shigematsu
Curated by Greg Barton
New York Foundation for Architecture—Center for Architecture (2017 Grantee)
New York, NY
Oct 2, 2017–Jan 18, 2018

Tu casa es mi casa
Frida Escobedo, Aris Janigian, Pedro&Juana, Tezontle, Katya Tylevich, and David Ulin
Curated by Mario Ballesteros, Andrea Dietz, Sarah Lorenzen, and Mimi Zeiger
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design (2016 Grantee)
Neutra VDL Studio and Residences
Los Angeles, CA
Sept 23, 2017–Jan 17, 2018

In Wood We Trust
The Chapuisat Brothers
Curated by Tricia Van Eck
6018North (2014 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Sept 16, 2017–Jan 8, 2018

54 Basel Street
Assaf Evron (2017 Grantee)
Curated by Aya Lurie
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
Herzliya, Israel
Sept 16, 2017–Feb 3, 2018

Past exhibitions:

Scaffolding
Shohei Shigematsu
Curated by Greg Barton
New York Foundation for Architecture—Center for Architecture (2017 Grantee)
New York, NY
Oct 2, 2017–Jan 18, 2018

Designing the Computational Image/Imagining Computational Design
Daniel Cardoso Llach (2017 Grantee)
Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Sep 22–Nov 12, 2017

Singing Stones
Wilfrid Almendra, Daniel G. Baird, Bouchra Khalili, Dorian Gaudin, Lola Gonzàlez, Guillaume Leblon, Floating Museum, Florian Pugnaire & David Raffini, Andrew Schachman, Cauleen Smith, Thomas Teurlai, and Ralphaël Zarka
Curated by Katell Jaffrès
Palais de Tokyo (2017 Grantee)
Roundhouse, DuSable Museum
Chicago, IL
Sep 13–Oct 29, 2017

Cinthia Marcelle & Tiago Mata Machado: Divine Violence
Curated by Yesomi Umolu
University of Chicago Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts (2017 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Sep 8–Oct 29, 2017

Control Syntax Songdo
Farzin Lotfi-Jam and Mark Wasiuta (2017 Grantees)
2017 Seoul Architecture Biennale
Seoul, South Korea
Sep 2–Nov 5, 2017

Exhibit Columbus
Landmark Columbus (2017 Grantee)
Columbus, IN
Aug 26–Nov 26, 2017

Anyspace: This Future Has a Past
Anyone Corporation (2014 Grantee)
Center for Architecture
New York, NY
Jul 25–Sep 12, 2017

Thick
Maxi Spina (2017 Grantee)
SCI-Arc Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
Jul 7–Aug 12, 2017

Prismatic Park
Josiah McElheny
Curated by Brooke Kamin Rapaport
Madison Square Park Conservancy (2016 Grantee)
New York, NY
Jun 13–Oct 8, 2017

Serpentine Pavilion 2017 by Francis Kéré
Serpentine Galleries (2017 Grantee)
London, United Kingdom
Jun 23–Nov 19, 2017

Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive
Curated by Barry Bergdoll
The Museum of Modern Art (2016 Grantee)
New York, NY
Jun 12–Oct 1, 2017

Incense, Sweaters, and Ice
Martine Syms (2017 Grantee)
Curated by Jocelyn Miller
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
May 27–Jul 16, 2017

Within the Horizon
Directed by Quynh Vantu (2016 Grantee)
Hedmark Museum
Hamar, Norway
May 20–28, 2017

Call for Peace with Anna Halprin's Planetary Dance
Anna Halprin (2017 Grantee)
Curated by Christine Macel
57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Venice, Italy
May 13–Nov 26, 2017

Urban Planning: Contemporary Art and the City, 1966-2017
Robert Adams, Edgar Arcenaux, Mark Bradford, Juan William Chavez, Agnes Denes, Kevin Jerome Everson, Cyprien Gaillard, Theaster Gates, Dan Graham, David Hartt, Zoe Leonard, Glenn Ligon, Josiah McElheny, Catherine Opie, Robert Overby, Michael Rakowitz, Martha Rosler, Ed Ruscha, Gary Simmons, Robert Smithson, Maya Stovall, Oscar Tuazon, and Sara VanDerBeek
Curated by Kelly Shindler
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (Grantee 2016)
St. Louis, MO
May 5–Aug 13, 2017

Victoria Square Project
Rick Lowe (2017 Grantee)
documenta 14, Athens
Apr 8–Jul 17, 2017
documenta 14, Kassel
Jun 10–Sep 17, 2017

Amereida Phalene Latin América
Marcelo Araya, Andrés Garcés, Iván Ivelic, and Manuel Sanfuentes (2017 Grantees)
Curated by Dieter Roelstrate
documenta 14, Athens
Apr 8–Jul 17, 2017
documenta 14, Kassel
Jun 10–Sep 17, 2017

Cross-Sections: Four Emerging Artists and Architects
Ang Li, Anuar Maauad, Kai Franz and Jack Schneider
Curated by Chelsea Culprit, Ben Foch, Jaffer Kolb, Ian Quate and Colleen Tuite (2016 Grantees)
1.5 Rooms
New York, NY
Corners
Mar 19–Apr 23, 2017
Unnatural Hardware
Jul 6–Aug 27, 2017

The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin
Curated by Jens Hoffman
The Jewish Museum (2017 Grantee)
New York, NY
Mar 17–Aug 6, 2017

Environmental Communications: Contact High
Curated and designed by Mark Wasiuta, Marcos Sánchez (2011 Grantees) and Adam Bandler
LAXART (2017 Grantee)
Los Angeles, CA
Feb 18–Apr 1, 2017

Second Life
Dennis Oppenheim, Lebbeus Woods, Christoph a. Kumpusch, and Kryzsztof Wodiczko
Curated by Aaron Levy, William Menking, Amy Oppenheim, Orkan Telhan, and Ken Saylor
Slought (2015 Grantee)
Philadelphia, PA
Feb 9–Apr 26, 2017

Fantastic Architecture: Vostell, Fluxus, and the Built Environment
Vostell Concrete, 1969-1973
Wolf Vostell
Curated by Christine Mehring and Jacob Proctor
University of Chicago Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society & Smart Museum of Art (2016 Grantees)
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, Chicago
Jan 17–Mar 17, 2017
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
Jan 17–Jun 11, 2017

Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design
Curated by Esther da Costa Meyer and Daniel S. Palmer
The Jewish Museum (2016 Grantee)
New York, NY
Nov 4, 2016–Mar 26, 2017

Meeting the Clouds Halfway
Aranda\Lasch and Terrol Dew Johnson
Curated by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron and Jocko Weyland
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson (2016 Grantee)
Tucson, AZ
Oct 29, 2016–Jan 29, 2017

The Kid Gets Out of the Picture: Three Acts toward a Picturesque in Reverse
Andrew Atwood, Claus Benjamin Freyinger, Andrew Holder, and Jason Payne
Curated by Jia Gu, Courtney Coffmann, and Andrew Holder
Materials & Applications (2015 Grantee)
Los Angeles, CA
Oct 15, 2016–Feb 28, 2017

Who Builds Your Architecture?
Kadambari Baxi, Jordan Carver, Laura Diamond Dixit, and Mabel O. Wilson
Curated by Karen Kice
Art Institute of Chicago (2015 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Oct 11, 2016–Jun 11, 2017

s/he would rather do FICTION MAKER
François Roche (2016 Grantee)
FRAC Centre
Orleans, France
Nov 10, 2016–Mar 26, 2017

 

Image: Gordon Matta-Clark working on "Conical Intersect," 1975, Paris. Courtesy of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark. From the 2016 organizational grant to Bronx Museum for "Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect"

 

The Iron Triangle

Directed by Prudence Katze and William Lehman (2016 Grantees)
Premiered at DOC NYC
Nov 11, 2017

The Experimental City
Directed by Chad Freidrichs (2015 Grantee)
Premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival and Chicago Architecture Biennial
Oct 18, 2017

Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect
Directed by Mark Noonan
Produced by Wavelength Pictures (Grantee 2015)
Premiered at the IFI Documentary Festival
Oct 1, 2017

The Farnsworth Scores
Directed by Rob Mazurek and Lee Anne Schmitt (2016 Grantees)
Premiered at CineMarfa
May 5, 2017

70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green
Directed by Ronit Bezalel (2009 Grantee)
Premiered on WORLD Channel
February 21, 2017

Housing Works History
Website produced by Gavin Browning, Glen Cummings and Laura Hanna (2015 Grantees)
Launched at the New York Public Library
Feb 21, 2017

Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film
Directed by Samuel Wainwright Douglas (2013 Grantee)
Premiered at The Museum of Modern Art
Feb 18, 2017

Never Discuss Politics at Home
TV series produced by TOMA: Leandro Cappetto, Mathias Klenner, Eduardo Perez, Ignacio Rivas and Ignacio Saavedra (2017 Grantees)

 

Black in Design 2017: Designing Resistance, Building Coalitions
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, African American Student Union (2017 Grantee)
Gund Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Oct 6–8, 2017

Modern Living
Gerard & Kelly
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Farnsworth House (2017 Grantees)
Plano, IL
Sep 16, 2017

2017 Design Matters Conference
Association of Architecture Organizations (2017 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Sep 14–16, 2017

Here Hear Chicago
Nick Cave and Jeanne Gang
Navy Pier (2017 Grantee)
Sep 13–17, 2017

Making and Re-Making Glasgow: Heritage and Sustainability
SAH 2017 Annual International Conference
Society of Architectural Historians (2016 Grantee)
University of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre, Glasgow, Scotland
Jun 7–11, 2017

The Object as Actor Symposium
Noam Toran (2015 Grantee)
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Jan 25, 2017

 

Image: Gerard & Kelly, "Modern Living" (2016-ongoing), performance view at the Farnsworth House, Plano, IL, presented by the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, September 15-16, 2017. Pictured: Julia Eichten and Zack Winokur. Photo: Robert Hickerson. Courtesy of the artists. From the 2017 organizational grant to the National Trust for Historic Preservation-Farnsworth House for Modern Living

 

Kinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design

By Zeynep Çelik Alexander (2016 Grantee)
University of Chicago Press
2017

The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
By Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, and Georgeen Theodore (2014 Grantees)
Actar Publishers
2017

Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive
Edited by Barry Bergdoll and Jennifer Gray
The Museum of Modern Art (2016 Grantee)
2017

Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect
Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa and Jessamyn Fiore
Bronx Museum of the Arts (2016 Grantee) and Yale University Press
2017

Architecture is All Over
Edited by Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter (2015 Grantees)
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
2017

New Geographies 08: Islands
Edited by Daniel Daou and Pablo Pérez-Ramos
Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2014 Grantee) and Harvard University Press
2017

Log 39-41: Winter 2017, Spring/Summer 2017, Fall 2017
Edited by Cynthia Davidson
Anyone Corporation (2017 Grantee)
2017

Flat Out 2
Edited by Penelope Dean (2009 Grantee)
Flat Out
2017

Urbanlab: Bowling
By Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen (2014 Grantees)
Applied Research and Design Publishing
2017

54 Basel Street: Source Book
By Assaf Evron (2017 Grantee)
Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art
2017

OfficeUS Manual
Edited by Eva Franch, Ana Miljački, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Jacob Reidel, and Ashley Schafer
Storefront for Art and Architecture (2014 Grantee) and Lars Müller Publishers
2017

MAS CONTEXT Issue 30-31 Bilbao
Edited by Iker Gil
MAS Context (2015 Grantee)
2017

Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes our Lives
By Sarah Williams Goldhagen (2017 Grantee)
Harper
2017

When Is the Digital in Architecture?
Edited by Andrew Goodhouse
Canadian Centre for Architecture (2014 Grantee) and Sternberg Press
2017

Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World
By Dale Allen Gyure (2016 Grantee)
Yale University Press
2017

Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability
By Aimi Hamraie (2017 Grantee)
University of Minnesota Press
2017

Cedric Price Works, 1952–2003: A Forward-Minded Retrospective
By Samantha Hardingham (2012 Grantee)
Architectural Association and Canadian Centre for Architecture
2017

The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin
Edited by Jens Hoffman
The Jewish Museum (2017 Grantee)
2017

Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan
Edited by Daniel Ibañez, Clare Lyster, Charles Waldheim and Mason White (2015 Grantees)
Actar Publishers
2017

SOUPERgreen! Souped Up Green Architecture
By Doug Jackson (2014 Grantee)
Actar Publishers
2017

LabStudio: Design Research between Architecture and Biology
By Peter Lloyd Jones and Jenny E. Sabin (2010 Grantees)
Routledge
2017

Socialist Architecture: The Reappearing Act
By Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and photographs by Armin Linke (2011 Grantees)
The Green Box
2017

PROJECT Issue Six
Edited by Alfie Koetter, Daniel Markiewicz, and Emmett Zeifman
Consolidated Urbanism (2017 Grantee)
2017

UR03: 2100: A Dystopian Utopia / The City After Climate Change
Edited by Vanessa Keith and Michael Sorkin
Terreform (2013 Grantee)
2017

THE FUNAMBULIST Nos. 9-14: Islands, Architecture & Colonialism, Designed Destructions, Racialized Incarceration, Queers, Feminists & Interiors, Toxic Atmospheres
Edited by Leopold Lambert (2016 Grantee)
The Funambulist
2017

FOLIO: Journal of African Architecture, Issue No. 1: Pupae
Edited by Lesley Lokko
University of Johannesburg (2016 Grantee) and GSA Imprints
2017

The Letters of Colin Rowe: Five Decades of Correspondence
Edited by Daniel Naegele (2012 Grantee)
Artifice
2017

Suprarural: Architectural Atlas of Rural Protocols of the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas
By Ciro Najle and Lluís Ortega (2013 Grantees)
Actar Publishers
2017

UR12: Downward Spiral: El Helicoide's Descent from Mall to Prison
Edited by Celeste Olalquiaga and Lisa Blackmore
Terreform (2017 Grantee)
2017

Modern Architecture in Mexico City: History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capitol
By Kathryn E. O’Rourke (2015 Grantee)
University of Pittsburgh Press
2017

The Total Designer: Authorship in Architecture in the Post-Digital Age
By Lluís Ortega (2015 Grantee)
Actar Publishers and Puente Editores
2017

Sur 3: Esther McCoy: The Mexican Years
Edited by Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio and Jesi Khadivi
Guayaba Press (2016 Grantees) and Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
2017

Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture
By Stephen Phillips (2015 Grantee)
MIT Press
2017

Borderwall as Architecture
By Ronald Rael
University of California Press (2014 Grantee)
2017

Muriel Cooper
By David Reinfurt and Robert Wiesenberger (2013 Grantees)
(MIT Press, 2017)

As Seen: Exhibitions that Made Architecture and Design History
By Zoë Ryan
Art Institute of Chicago (2016 Grantee) and Yale University Press
2017

Many Norths: Spatial Practices in a Polar Territory
By Lola Sheppard and Mason White (2014 Grantees)
Actar Publishers
2017

Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape
By Molly Wright Steenson (2017 Grantee)
MIT Press
2017

In Progress: The IID Summer Sessions
By Irene Sunwoo
Architectural Association (2016 Grantee) and Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
2017

Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism
By Alice Twemlow (2015 Grantee)
MIT Press
2017

Buildings of Wisconsin
Edited by Marsha Weisiger
Society of Architectural Historians (1998 Grantee) and University of Virginia Press
2017

Women Architects in India: Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi
By Mary N. Woods (2016 Grantee)
Routledge
2017

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

2017 CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

WRITING

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

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

RESEARCH

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

 

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

Deadline: November 15, 2017

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2018 Carter Manny Award. Ph.D. students must be nominated by their department to apply for the Carter Manny Award. The award is open to students officially enrolled in schools in the US and Canada, regardless of citizenship.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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