Image: Toro, Ferrer, and Torregrosa, Caribe Hilton, 1949, San Juan, P.R. Courtesy: Hospitality Industry Archives, Conrad Hilton College, University of Houston. From "Architecture, Urbanism, and American Tourism in Puerto Rico and Cuba" by Erica Morawski. 

The Graham Foundation announces the 2012 Carter Manny Award to support doctoral dissertation research and writing.

Applications due March 15, 2012

Since the Carter Manny Award’s establishment in 1996, over $500,000 has been awarded in recognition of outstanding doctoral students whose work represents some of the most innovative and advanced scholarship on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Carter Manny Award supports dissertation research and writing by promising scholars whose projects focus on fields of inquiry supported by the Graham Foundation: architecture; architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; visual arts; and other related fields. The award is intended to assist students enrolled in graduate programs in architecture, art history, and other programs in the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences.

The Graham Foundation offers two Carter Manny Awards: a research award for a student at the research stage of the doctoral dissertation and a writing award for a student at the writing stage of the doctoral dissertation. The research award is acknowledged with $15,000 and the writing award is acknowledged with $20,000.

Ph.D. students who are presently candidates for a doctoral degree are eligible to apply.

• Students must be nominated by their department to apply for the Carter Manny Award.
• A department may nominate up to two candidates: one for the research award and one for the writing award.
• At the time of application, students must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. except the dissertation and have had their dissertation proposals formally approved by their academic departments.
• The award is open to students officially enrolled in schools in the U.S. and Canada, regardless of citizenship.

For more information about our grantmaking, to learn if you are eligible for funding, and to access the application, click here to see our grant guidelines.

Anne Tyng, Concept sketches for the exhibition "Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry" at the Graham Foundation, 2010 

The Graham Foundation reflects upon the passing of architect and theorist Anne Tyng. In 1965, Tyng was one of the first women to receive a fellowship from the Graham Foundation for her project Anatomy of Form: The Divine Proportion in the Platonic Solids. Last spring the Graham Foundation, in conjunction with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, was pleased to present the exhibition Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry. The catalog for this exhibition, co-published by the ICA and the Graham Foundation, is forthcoming.  Tyng was also interviewed this past summer by contemporary art curator, critic and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist and architect Bjarke Ingels as part of a Graham Foundation grant to the Institute of the 21^st Century.

To read Anne Tyng’s obituary in DomusWeb, click here. To read the New York Times obituary, click here.

To read about Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry at the Graham Foundation, click here.

To read more about the grantee project with Anne Tyng, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Bjarke Ingels, click here.

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