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

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

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

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

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

EXHIBITIONS (14)

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

FILM/VIDEO/NEW MEDIA (2)

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

OTHER-FELLOWSHIP (1)

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

PUBLIC PROGRAMS (8)

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

PUBLICATIONS (16)

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

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

Deadline: September 15, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

EXHIBITIONS

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

FILM/VIDEO/NEW MEDIA PROJECTS

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

PUBLIC PROGRAM

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

PUBLICATIONS

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

RESEARCH

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Application Deadline: February 25, 2017

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

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

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

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

 

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

 

Happy Holidays from the Graham Foundation. Please note that the galleries will be closed this Friday and Saturday, December 23–24.

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

For more information, access the job description here.

 

Deadline: November 15, 2016

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2017 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.

 

Image: Peter Behrens, sketch of the Atlantropa Tower and North gate of the Gibraltar Dam, 1931, Munich, Germany. Courtesy of the Sörgel-Archiv, Das Deutsches Museum, Munich. From the 2016 Carter Manny Award to Hollyamber Kennedy (Columbia University) for Welt bildend: Architectures of Security and Infrastructural Modernism in Germany and Beyond, 1848–1952.

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

This internship requires a flexible commitment of 2 days per week (Wed-Sat, 10am-6pm) and regular evening events, with an immediate start date.

Please email a resume and cover letter to Ava Barrett at abarrett[at]grahamfoundation.org. No phone calls, please.

For more information, access the job description here.

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce $419,000 in new grants to organizations supporting 31 projects. The funded projects—including major museum retrospectives, site-specific commissions, art and architecture biennials, and provocative journals and publications—offer forums for new ideas with the potential to expand the field of architecture. Operating on a variety of scales, these grants give voice to innovative programs and scholarship, and create new platforms for engagement with architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

The awarded projects were selected from a competitive pool of over 230 submissions from organizations in 24 countries. The new grantees comprise a diverse group of national and international organizations in cities across North America and the world, including Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Johannesburg, London, and Istanbul. These new award recipients join the expanding network of individuals and institutions that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 60 years in its role as one of the most significant funders in the field of architecture.

The full list of the 2016 grants to organizations follow below. To learn more about the new grants, click here.

2016 GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS

EXHIBITION (16 awards)    
Anyone Corporation
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
California State University Long Beach-University Art Museum
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts
The Jewish Museum
LIGA-Space for Architecture
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
Madison Square Park Conservancy
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson
Museum of Modern Art
National Building Museum
Serpentine Gallery
Swiss Institute
University of Chicago-Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society & Smart Museum of Art

FILM/VIDEO/NEW MEDIA (1 award)
Monoambiente

PUBLIC PROGRAM (3 awards)
CAMPO
Lampo
Society of Architectural Historians

PUBLICATION (11 awards)
Arab Image Foundation
Architectural Association
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago Architecture Biennial
Guayaba Press
MAS Context
Places Journal
Project: A Journal for Architecture
Terreform
University of Johannesburg
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König

Image: Chinese public health poster depicting the human body as a factory, 1933. Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. From the 2016 Organizational Grant to Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts for Are We Human?, 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial.

 

Deadline: September 15, 2016

Since 1956, the Graham Foundation has provided direct funding to individuals for projects that foster 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, 2016.

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

 

Image: Masha Panteleyeva, Svetlana Strelnikova, and Nazli Kaya, animation still from Paper Cities (Utopia Under Construction), 2016. Courtesy of the artists. From the 2016 Individual Grant to Masha Panteleyeva, Svetlana Strelnikova, and Nazli Kaya for the film Paper Cities.