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