The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Carter Manny Award. Since the establishment of this award in 1996, the Graham Foundation has awarded over $740,000 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 dissertation writing.

The winner of the 2016 Carter Manny Award for writing and a $20,000 award is Hollyamber Kennedy, a PhD candidate at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Kennedy’s dissertation, Welt bildend: Architectures of Security and Infrastructural Modernism in Germany and Beyond, 1848–1952, examines German architects, engineers, planners, and scientists across Central Europe and Africa, whose work on colonization projects, housing programs, and energy infrastructures gave rise to new forms of technical expertise and helped shape a modern image of the architect as an intervention-oriented planner.

The winner of the 2016 Carter Manny Award for research and a $15,000 award is Elisabeth Narkin, a PhD candidate in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, for her dissertation Rearing the Royals: Architecture and the Spatialization of Royal Childhood in France, 1499–1610. Narkin’s dissertation explores architecture’s relationship to conceptions of childhood and its role in the monarchy’s symbolic self-representation and evolving political strategies.

Additionally, eight 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 U.S. and Canada who were nominated by their departments to apply for the award. This year’s review panelists were Daniel Abramson (Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Architectural Studies, Tufts University); Niall Atkinson (Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Chicago); and Alison Hirsch (Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Southern California).

The Graham Foundation offers this annual award in honor of Carter H. Manny and his long and distinguished service to the foundation since its inception in 1956, first as a Trustee, then as the Director from 1971, and since his retirement in 1993, as Director Emeritus.

Applications for the 2017 Carter Manny Award are due November 15, 2016. To learn more, see the award guidelines here.

2016 CARTER MANNY AWARD WINNERS

WRITING AWARD

Welt bildend: Architectures of Security and Infrastructural Modernism in Germany and Beyond, 1848–1952
HOLLYAMBER KENNEDY
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation


RESEARCH AWARD

Rearing the Royals: Architecture and the Spatialization of Royal Childhood in France, 1499–1610
ELISABETH NARKIN
Duke University, Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies


2016 CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

WRITING

At the Threshold of the Mediterranean: Architecture, Urbanism, and Identity in Early Modern Sicily
ELIZABETH KASSLER-TAUB
Harvard University, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Komp'iuter Architecture(s), 195X–198X
EVANGELOS KOTSIORIS
Princeton University, School of Architecture

Novel Buildings: Architectural and Narrative Form in Victorian Fiction
ASHLEY NADEAU
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of English

All Streets Lead to Temples: Mapping Monumental Histories in Kanchipuram, ca. 690–1199 CE
EMMA STEIN
Yale University, Department of the History of Art


RESEARCH

Circles of Artifice: Semi-public Interiors of Spectacle in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris
CRISTOBAL AMUNATEGUI
Princeton University, School of Architecture

Restoration, Displacement, Appropriation: Negotiating the Baroque Legacy in the National Fascist Party's Redesign of Rome 
ANNA MASCORELLA
Cornell University, Department of Architecture

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

The Architect's Knowledge: Images of History in American Architectural Education, 1800–1925 
BRYAN NORWOOD
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design



Image: Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Château of Blois, exterior façade of Louis XII wing and interior façade of Francis I wing, 1570. Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum.From the Graham Foundation's 2016 Carter Manny Award for doctoral dissertation research to Elisabeth Narkin for Rearing the Royals: Architecture and the Spatialization of Royal Childhood in France, 1499–1610.