Image: Amaza Lee Meredith Scrapbook, Azurest South (Negative), n.d. Photograph, 4 x 6 in. Courtesy Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia. From the 2023 grant to Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation for the exhibition "Dear Mazie," 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 38 grants to organizations worldwide that support projects—including exhibitions, publications, and other public presentations—that foster the development and exchange of ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society, furthering the mission of the Graham Foundation. Collectively, these projects explore different issues, methods, and platforms of contemporary architecture discourse and feature work by architects, archivists, artists, curators, designers, educators, and other professionals working with organizations around the world in cities such as Beirut, Los Angeles, Richmond, Tijuana, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based.

The new grantees join a global network of organizations and individuals that the Graham Foundation has supported since its founding in 1956. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than $43 million in direct support to over 5,000 projects by organizations and individuals. Learn more about each project by clicking the links below.

Learn more about each project by clicking the links below to explore a dedicated project page here.

EXHIBITIONS

ArchiteXX (Syracuse, NY)
Spatializing Reproductive Justice

Art Omi (Ghent, NY)
Olalekan Jeyifous: Even in Arcadia...

Chicago Architecture Biennial (Chicago)
CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial

Chicago Architecture Center (Chicago)
OUR CHANGING DOWNTOWN: International Residency with ChartierDalix, Paris

Citygroup (New York)
Citygroup Exhibition Program, 2023

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York)
Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial

Del Vaz Projects (Los Angeles, CA)
Alma Allen & Su Wu: Site Repair

Dia Art Foundation (New York)
Cameron Rowland at Dia Beacon

Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, IL)
A Love Supreme

Landmark Columbus Foundation (Columbus, IN)
Public by Design, 2023 Exhibit Columbus

The Renaissance Society (Chicago)
Dala Nasser

SPACES (Cleveland, OH)
Everlasting Plastics, US Pavilion, 18th International Architecture Exhibition

University of Texas at Austin—School of Architecture (Austin, TX)
The Black Home as Public Art

Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation (Richmond, VA)
Dear Mazie,

FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS 

Architectural Association School of Architecture (London)
Entangled Archive: a digital framework for collecting and sharing the dispersed legacy of the AA Department of Tropical Architecture

The School of Architecture (Scottsdale, AZ)
Seabreeze Bop City

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago)
2024 Design Matters Conference

Geoffrey Bawa Trust (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
On Gardens: Contemplating the Relative in Space, Time, and Life

Harvard University—Graduate School of Design, African American Student Union (Cambridge, MA)
The Black Home, Black in Design Conference 2023

SALAA (Tijuana, Mexico)
Rethinking Architecture Education in Latin America

The World Around (New York)
The World Around Summit 2024

PUBLICATIONS

a83 (New York)
Architectural Image-Making in 1980s New York: The John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers Collection

Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal, Canada)
AP205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the Archive by Studio Muoto, Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Dark Matter U (Philadelphia, PA)
Challenging Patterns of Supremacy: Provocations from Collective Pedagogy, Practice, and Organizing

Dongola (Beirut, Lebanon)
Provoking the Territory: Bernard Khoury

i press (Boston, MA)
Revisiting the i press Series on the Human Environment by Mary Otis Stevens

LIGA—Space for Architecture (Mexico City)
The missing architect

Loudreaders (Ames, IA)
The LOUDREADER

New York Review of Architecture (New York)
Los Angeles Review of Architecture

Soberscove Press (Chicago)
In the Horizontal Plane: taisha paggett performance works

University of Illinois at Chicago—School of Architecture (Chicago)
The UIC/SoArch Journal

Victoria and Albert Museum (London)
Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa and South Asia

STUDENT-LED PUBLICATIONS 

Paprika! (New Haven, CT)
Paprika! Volume IX

Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston)
PLAT 13

Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, Canada)
SPACE FOR FREE

University of California, Berkeley—Architecture Department (Berkeley, CA)
Arkisnak

University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles)
POOL, Issue No. 09

University of Southern California—School of Architecture (Los Angeles)
SPACE, Vol. 1: Delirium

Upcoming Grant Deadlines

2024 grants to individuals: inquiry form deadline: September 15, 2023
2024 Carter Manny award: application available: September 15, 2023; due November 15, 2023
2024 grants to organizations: application available January 15, 2024; due February 25, 2024