Announcing the new Carter Manny Award recipients
Oct 20, 2021
Awarding innovative doctoral dissertation writing and research by emerging scholars of architecture and design
The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the 2021–22 Carter Manny Awards for outstanding doctoral dissertations on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. Caroline E. Murphy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning; History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art) is the recipient of the Carter Manny Writing Award, and Danya Epstein (Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts; Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture) is honored with the Carter Manny Research Award. These projects were selected by an external panel of scholars in addition to six citations of special recognition.
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Carter Manny Award program which has awarded 41 awards, 122 citations, and $936,000 since its establishment in 1996. The program—named for architect Carter H. Manny (1918–2017) and his contributions to the Graham Foundation, as founding trustee 1956, director 1993–71, and director emeritus—is the only pre-doctoral award dedicated to architectural scholarship and supports projects that are poised to impact how architecture is studied and practiced.
Panelists for the 2021–22 awards included: Jiat-Hwee Chang (Associate Professor and Deputy Head, Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore); Ateya A. Khorakiwala (Assistant Professor, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation); and Stephanie Whitlock (Executive Director, Architectural Heritage Center).
Below is the full list of the 2021–22 Carter Manny Award recipients and citations of special recognition. Learn more about the history of the award and browse a list of past winners here.
Caroline E. Murphy
Waters and Wealth: Rivers, Infrastructure, and the Territorial Imagination in Grand Ducal Tuscany, ca. 1549–1609
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning, Department of Architecture
History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art
Danya Epstein
Archival Ruins: Dennis Numkena and Hopi Art History
Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts
Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture
Seçil Binboğa
Scaling the Region: Visuality, Infrastructure, and the Politics of Design in Cold War Turkey
University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Architectural History and Theory
Carter Manny Writing Citation
Amy Chang
Architecture at the Edges of Empire: Seville, Manila, and the Formation of Spanish National Architecture, 16–17th Centuries
Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture
Carter Manny Research Citation
Chuan Hao (Alex) Chen
Biocontainment Architecture: Constructing Race at the Border of Emerging Diseases and the American Nation
University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology
Carter Manny Research Citation
Matthew Slaats
Infrastructures of the Marvelous: Exploring contemporary, Black grassroots social transformation in the Southern United States
University of Virginia, School of Architecture
Constructed Environment
Carter Manny Research Citation
Y. L. Lucy Wang
Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894–1949
Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Modern Architecture
Carter Manny Research Citation
Zhiyan Yang
Reinventing Architectural Culture in Post-Socialist China, 1979–2006
University of Chicago, Department of Art History
Modern and Contemporary Art, Asian Art
Carter Manny Writing Citation
Upcoming Deadline
2022–23 Carter Manny Award: November 15, 2021
Image: Gherardo Mechini, Map of the Chio Valley in Castiglion Fiorentino showing the Celone and Vingone Rivers, ca. 1580–1620. Ink and watercolor on paper, 345 x 470 mm. Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Piante dei Capitani di Parte Guelfa, Cartoni, XX/20. Courtesy the Ministero della Cultura, Archivio di Stato di Firenze. From the 2021–22 Carter Manny Writing Award dissertation, “Waters and Wealth: Rivers, Infrastructure, and the Territorial Imagination in Grand Ducal Tuscany, ca. 1549–1609,” by Caroline E. Murphy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning, Department of Architecture)