2008 G R A N T S
In the fall 2008 grant cycle, the foundation awarded 93 Grants to Individuals totalling $711,274. Of these, 45 are Research and Development Grants and 48 are Production and Presentation Grants.
R. Nicholas Adams
Research: Being Modern, Being Swedish: Gunnar Asplund's Law Court Extension (1934-1938) in Göteborg, Sweden
$6,000
Thom Andersen
Research: Architecture of Exile
$10,000
Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues
Exhibition: Life Cycle Design in Temporary Spatial Installation through Cross Manufacturing
$12,500
Jean-François Bédard
Publication: Decorative Games: Architecture, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742)
$7,500
Cesare Birignani
Research: The Festival: Architecture and the Event
$8,500
Andrew J Blum and Davina Pardo
Film/Video/New Media: Minka
$10,000
Stuart M. Blumin
Publication: The Encompassing City: Streetscapes in Early Modern Art and Culture
$5,000
Françoise A. Bollack
Research: Old Buildings - New Forms
$5,000
Cammy Brothers, Mauro Mussolini, and Caroline Elam
Publication: Renaissance Architecture and the Antique: Selected Essays by Howard Burns
$6,000
Gerardo Brown-Manrique
Publication: Rudolf Fraenkel: Architecture in Germany, Romania and Britain
$10,000
Himanshu Dattatreya Burte and Malini Krishnankutty
Research: Sustainable Architecture in India: Practices, Projects and Prospects
$5,000
Sara Catania
Research: A Different Place: A Colorbound Story of Urban Renewal
$5,000
Clementine Rachel Amelia Cecil
Publication: Experiments in Utopia: Survivors of the Soviet Architectural Avant-Garde
$5,000
Mario Cipresso
Film/Video/New Media: Death By Architecture
$10,000
Deirdre Colgan and Jim Colgan
Research: Gray Area: An Interdisciplinary Investigation into the Desecration of a Humble Modernist Monument
$5,000
Malachi Connolly
Research: Mid Life Mid Century
$10,000
Felipe Correa
Research: Scarcity: Bipolar Urbanisms in the Sonoran Desert
$5,000
Sheila R. Crane
Publication: Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and the Remaking of Modern Architecture
$6,650
Thomas Charles Daniell
Publication: Scenes from Post-Bubble Japan: Selected Writings on Japanese Architectural Culture
$7,500
Judith Kristen De Jong
Research: Mobility, Reluctance, and the Flattening City
$5,000
Thomas de Monchaux
Research: The Means and the Cloak: The Hidden Histories of 2 Columbus Circle
$10,000
Anne Clayton Dodge
Research: American Owned - Motel Ownership and Preservation along Route 66
$5,000
Bonnie J. Donohue
Exhibition: Contested Territory: A Reclamation of the Island of Vieques, Puerto Rico
$10,000
Susannah Churchill Drake
Research: Campus Landscapes of Beatrix Farrand from Vision to Implementation: Sustainability, Maintenance, and the Preservation of a Landscape Legacy
$5,000
Jori Ann Erdman
Research: Design-Build: A Critical History
$7,500
Billie Jo Faircloth
Publication: Architecture and Plastic
$7,500
J. Clayton Fant
Research: Marble and the Caesars: the Ideology, Technology and Organization of the Roman Imperial Marble Bureau
$5,000
Elizabeth Felicella
Research: Reading Room: A Catalog of New York City's Branch Libraries
$10,000
Karen Ann Fiss
Research: "Brand the Beloved Country": National Identity and the Politics of Place in Post-Apartheid South Africa
$10,000
Steven Tseun-yi Fong
Exhibition: Five Cities \ Great Lakes
$5,000
Liam T.A. Ford
Publication: Soldier Field: A Biography
$5,000
Amy Michele Franceschini
Research: Victory Gardens 2007+
$5,000
Andrew Freear
Publication: Educating the Citizen Architect
$10,000
Izabel Gass
Publication: Manifold Magazine
$7,500
Beatrice Elizabeth Gibson
Film/Video/New Media: A Necessary Music
$12,500
Stephen Arthur Goldsmith
Publication: Studio without Walls: Living Creatively across Disciplines
$10,000
Terence Steven Gower
Exhibition: Public Spirit: The Hirshhorn Project
$12,500
Randy Gragg
Other: City Dance: The Portland Legacy of Lawrence and Anna Halprin
$12,500
Anthony M. Hamboussi
Publication: Newtown Creek: A Photographic Survey, 2001-2006
$10,000
Tali Hatuka
Exhibition: Urban Design and Civil Protests: A Contemporary Mediation
$10,000
Weiling He
Research: John Hejduk's Drawings: The Architecture of Mental Space
$4,520
Jeffrey Head
Publication: Wallace Neff: The Bubble Houses
$10,000
Dorothée Imbert
Publication: Between Garden and City: Landscape Modernism and Jean Canneel-Claes
$8,013
Jason K Johnson
Research: Robotic Ecologies Project
$8,500
David E Karmon
Research: Ruining the Ruins: The Preservation of Antiquity in Renaissance Rome
$5,000
Joongsub Kim
Research: A Study on the Search for National Identity by Architects and Urban Designers during Korea's Post Civil War Era and Contemporary Era
$5,000
Michael Kubo
Publication: Constructing the Cold War Environment: The Architecture of the RAND Corporation
$12,500
John Frederick Leaver III
Research: The Architecture of Kikoo Mozuna
$5,000
Neil Levine
Research: The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright
$10,000
Zhongjie Lin
Publication: Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan
$10,000
Adriana Lira-Oliver
Research: Light + Surface and Human Psycho-Physical Behavior
$5,000
Michelle Ann Litvin
Research: Moving Spaces
$5,000
Christopher A Long
Research: Kem Weber and Modern Design in Southern California
$5,600
Timothy Scott Long
Publication: Daniel Burnham's Enduring Vision for the Philippines
$10,000
Patrick Lee Lucas
Film/Video/New Media: Close to Home: Edward Loewenstein + Modernism in Greensboro
$7,500
Clare Louise Lyster
Research: Learning from Fed Ex: Emerging Spaces of Globalization
$5,000
Corey J McCorkle
Exhibition: In Spite of the Night
$5,000
Michael Meredith
Publication: Beyond the Harvard Box: The Early Works of Edward L. Barnes, Ulrich Franzen, John Johansen, Victor Lundy, I.M. Pei, and Paul Rudolph
$10,000
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Publication: Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper as Urban Solution
$3,451
Tracy Metz
Publication: The Glamour Zone: Downtowns in the US and Europe
$7,500
William Baird Millard
Research: The Vertical and Horizontal Americas: The Built Environment, Cultural Formations, and the Post-Automotive Era
$10,000
Adnan Zillur Morshed
Research: The Architecture of Ascension: Airplanes, Skyscrapers, and the American Imagination of the Future City
$10,000
Robert William Mugerauer
Publication: Heidegger and Homecoming
$6,000
Scott Murray
Publication: Taxonomy of Curtain Walls
$7,500
Louis Perry Nelson
Publication: Pulpits, Piety and Power: Anglican Architecture in Colonial South Carolina
$10,000
Ardine Kaye Nelson
Research: Green Spaces: Small Garden Communities of Dresden, Germany
$7,500
Michael Martell Osborne
Research: Beijing's Olympic Preparations
$8,700
Annie Pedret
Publication: Team 10 Thinking: New Values for Modern Architecture
$7,545
Matthew Richard Potteiger
Research: Foodscapes: Design Practices and Food Systems
$7,500
Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Research: Archiving the Nation: Architectural Preservation and the Construction of India's Past, 1911-2005
$5,000
Pedro Reyes
Publication: Homo Urbanicus: Mayors from World Cities Interviewed
$12,500
Inderbir Singh Riar and Mark Lyon
Research: The Legacy of the "Grands Ensembles": Documenting the Architecture of Toulouse-Le Mirail
$10,000
Juan Manuel Rois
Research: Rosario Architecture: A New Generation
$5,000
Sharon Rotbard
Publication: White City, Black City
$10,000
Russell Rudzinski
Research: Eliel Saarinen in America
$5,000
Leslie A Ryan
Research: How Big is Here? The Ecological Discourse of Artists Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison
$9,680
David Salomon
Publication: The Architecture of Patterns
$5,000
Anatole Senkevitch
Research: The Recent Re-Construction of Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow: Unpacking Contested Narratives and Architectural Agencies in Russia's Post-Soviet Struggle for National Identity
$5,000
David Grahame Shane
Publication: Urban Design since 1945: A Global Perspective
$10,000
Katherine Anne Smith
Research: Building Practice: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Architectural Projects with Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown, Philip Johnson, and Frank Gehry
$5,000
Manu P. Sobti
Research: Building and Rebuilding the Palimpsest of Urban Memory: The Mechanics of Urban Space-Making in Early-Medieval Samarqand and Bukhara
$7,500
Thomas Georg Soehl
Publication: mudot - magazine for urban documentation, opinion and theory. Issues 8 and 9
$5,750
Despina Maria Stratigakos
Publication: A Women's Berlin: Building the Modern City
$7,500
Yehre Suh
Research: Parallel Utopias: The Normalcy of Architecture in North and South Korea
$5,000
Judith Bock Tankard
Publication: Beatrix Farrand, Landscape Architect
$10,000
Jose R Vazquez
Research: A Concrete Presence: The Architecture of Miami Dade Community College, 1960-1970
$4,600
Heinrich Voelkel
Exhibition: "The Terrible City": Architecture of Destruction and Reconstruction in Grozny
$7,500
Enrique Walker
Publication: Collected Interviews (1993-2008)
$12,500
Mark Wasiuta and Marcos Sánchez
Research: House Plant
$8,580
Ted Whitten
Research: Mission Building: Architectural Discourse at Conservative Christian Schools of Architecture
$3,185
John Goodrich Williams
Publication: In the Stream of Time
$10,000
James N. Wines
Publication: Post-Green Architecture: Environmental Thinking in the Twenty-First Century
$7,500
Meejin Yoon and Eric Höweler
Publication: Public Works Public Space: Unsolicited Small Projects for the Big Dig
$7,500