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2026
October 13, 2026—The Graham Foundation announces the winners of the 2026 Carter Manny Awards, celebrating three decades of support for emerging scholars expanding the discourse of architecture and the built environment. Earlier this year, the Foundation announced 45 Grants to Organizations totaling $451,000 and 54 Grants to Individuals totaling $506,000.
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Tracing Layers: Building Beneath the Surface in the Italian Apennines, 1527–1650
Yeo-Jin (Katerina) BongCarter Manny Award -
My Body-Home: Material Shifts in Architecture and West Indian Diasporic Formations
Melina GoorayCarter Manny Award -
Procesos Salvajes [Wild Processes]
Juan Carlos Espinosa, Carlos A. Segura & Tania TovarExhibition -
Earthen Comforts: Airing Earth
Liz GálvezExhibition -
Saints at a Disco
Gerard & Kelly: Brennan Gerard & Ryan KellyExhibition -
Cracks in the Edifice: The Fairground as Constellation
Suzy Halajian & Noah SimblistExhibition -
Becoming Monument
NIkolaus Hirsch & Jorge Otero-PailosExhibition -
The Death and Life of an Apartment Building
Drawing Architecture Studio: Yan Hu, Han Li & Xintong ZhangExhibition -
The Stork's Stair
Future Firm: Ann Lui & Craig ReschkeExhibition -
A Stop
MOS: Michael Meredith & Hilary SampleExhibition -
N-06
Sarah OppenheimerExhibition -
Weaving Nets for Water Worlds
Adriana Salazar VélezExhibition -
COMPLEX
David TaylorExhibition -
If Architecture Could Dance
Norman Teague & Bernard WilliamsExhibition -
A83 Exhibition Program, 2026–27
a83Exhibition -
Citygroup Exhibition and Debate Program, 2027
CitygroupExhibition -
Tonika Lewis Johnson
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College ChicagoExhibition -
Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time
CounterpublicExhibition -
Stories from Within: Home, Here and There
Hyde Park Art CenterExhibition -
Jody Pinto: B.I.G.
Los Angeles Nomadic DivisionExhibition -
The Feathered Whale and Other Works by Enrique Murillo, Xalapa, Mexico
LIGA–Space for ArchitectureExhibition -
Women Dancing Down the Side of a Building
Los Angeles Contemporary ExhibitionsExhibition -
Paul R. Williams: Architect for Living
Los Angeles County Museum of ArtExhibition -
MCA 60: Amanda Williams
Museum of Contemporary Art ChicagoExhibition -
Front of House (2026) and Stage Prop (2027), Ragdale Ring Design-Build Competition
RagdaleExhibition -
a serpentine, Serpentine Pavilion 2026 by LANZA atelier
Serpentine GalleriesExhibition -
Preservation Station 777
National Building Arts CenterExhibition -
Alia Farid: Elsewhere (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominicana)
Storefront for Art and ArchitectureExhibition -
The Artist Within Us All: The Halprins and their Circle of Influence
Tamalpa InstituteExhibition -
Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design
Van Alen InstituteExhibition -
Raimund Abraham: Earthquake of Silence
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art-Irwin S. Chanin School of ArchitectureExhibition -
The Gardeners
Crystal KayizaFilm -
Nighthawk
Adam James SmithFilm -
Vanishing Point: An Architect’s Journey
Wandering Eye StudiosFilm -
Space Between, Season Three
KoozarchPodcast -
Publication Award in Contemporary Architecture (PACA)
MIT PressPublic Program -
The Anne Rieselbach Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers
The Architectural League of New YorkPublic Program -
Design for Dignity 04: A Convening of Possibilities
Deem JournalPublic Program -
Lampo 2026 Concert series at the Graham Foundation
LampoPublic Program -
Latin Catalyst: CDMX Mexico Works
Space.CityPublic Program -
The World Around Summit 2027
The World AroundPublic Program -
Punch List
Christopher HawthornePublication -
Karel Teige’s Theory and Criticism: Reflections on Architecture, Art, and Society
Jana Ndiaye BerankovaPublication -
Ugo La Pietra. Interior/Exterior: The Unbalancing Experiments
Marta Bertazzoni, Elisa C. Cattaneo, Simona Cesana & Ugo La PietraPublication -
Ediciones Eje, Issue 04: Mantener, reparar y sostener/Maintain, repair and sustain; Issue 05: Agua/Water
Santiago Bonilla Hastings, Daniella Camarena, Lucas Hoops & James O'BrienPublication -
Now What?! A Call for Advocacy, Activism, and Alliances in US Architecture
Lori A. Brown & Sarah RafsonPublication -
Philip G. Freelon: Artist, Architect and Griot
Arthur J. Clement & Emily G. MakašPublication -
Model Housing: Atlanta and the Foundation of American Public Housing Architecture
Christina E. CrawfordPublication -
Sympoietic Architecture. Making With Lina Ghotmeh
Ilaria Di Carlo & Daria RicchiPublication -
Entity of Decolonization. The Afterlives of Colonial–Fascist Architecture
Emilio Distretti, Sandi Hilal & Alessandro PettiPublication -
Knowing Trees: A History of Public Health
Sonja DümpelmannPublication -
Collective Colonialism: Missionary Competition and Architectural Contestation in Ottoman Lebanon
Yasmina El ChamiPublication -
Urban refugia
Matthew GandyPublication -
Holy Modern: Technocratic Fascism, Imperial Architectures, and Opus Dei
María González PendásPublication -
Architecture as an Earth practice
Owen Hopkins, Kabage Karanja, Stella Mutegi & Kathryn YusoffPublication -
Dislocations: The Architecture, Planning and Building of Prison Cities for Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II
Lynne HoriuchiPublication -
Watt or Fall
Kate JoycePublication -
Designing the Insectarium
Wilfried Kuehn, Simona Malvezzi & Hubert PelletierPublication -
Spatial Solidarities: Architecture and Resistance in 1970s Chile
Ana María LeónPublication -
Concrete under the Sun: Brutalism in the Dominican Republic
Alex Martínez SuárezPublication -
Brasília in 35mm: The New Capital through the Lens of Photojournalism, 1956–60
Ciro MiguelPublication -
Flora Ruchat-Roncati: The Mountain is the Wall
Guillaume Mojon & Veronika SpierenburgPublication -
The Architecture of Punta del Este 1948–1987
Leandro VillalbaPublication -
Blood of the Earth
Abigail LucienPublication -
SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change
Chicago Architecture BiennialPublication -
Diane Simpson: Dressing Up
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig WienPublication -
The Centre in Motion: Stories from the First Pan-African Biennale
Pan-African BiennalePublication -
Architecture and the National Academy of Design: An Untold History
National Academy of DesignPublication -
New City Critics, 2026–27
Urban Design Forum and the Architectural League of New YorkPublication -
CCA Oral Histories: You can sit and think, and you have what you have to do
Canadian Centre for ArchitecturePublication -
Making Alive! Reworlding Cities: Decommodified · Regenerative · Pluriversal
Carnegie Mellon University-Remaking Cities InstitutePublication -
Wait a Minute: How the History of the Earth Impinges on Architecture
ETH Zurich-Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta)Publication -
Madelon Vriesendorp: Too Late to Die Young
The Cosmic HousePublication -
LA ESCUELA___: The School as Practice and Place
LA ESCUELA___Publication -
Anthracite Journal, Volume 1: Inheritance
Marywood University-School of ArchitecturePublication -
Michael Asher
MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNSTPublication -
Paprika! Magazine, Volume XV
Paprika! MagazinePublication -
ANY Book: Reading Architecture of the 90s Through the Lens of ANY Magazine
PraxisPublication -
COMMUNAL
Salmon Creek ArtsPublication -
The Wladimiro Acosta Archive: An Update on Climate Responsive Design
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella-School of Architecture and Urban StudiesPublication -
POOL, Issue No. 12
University of California, Los Angeles-Department of Architecture and Urban DesignPublication -
VORKURS XI: AFTERIMAGE
University of Florida-Graduate School of ArchitecturePublication -
Telesis, Volume IX: Pause and Volume X: React
University of Oklahoma-Christopher C. Gibbs College of ArchitecturePublication -
Jo Noero: South African Architecture, Politics and Spatial Justice
Jeremy MelvinResearch -
Remembering Memory: (In)formal Architectures of Resistance
Olorunfemi AdewuyiResearch -
Military Architectures of Displacement: Documenting Spatial Erasure in the Indian Ocean
Shane Ah-SiongResearch -
Layt De Kam
Ibiye CampResearch -
A Study of Two Cities: Seville, Kansas City, and Social Aesthetics Across the African Atlantic
Re'al ChristianResearch -
Trans Reconstruction: Roberta Dickinson’s Disobedient Archive
Adrienne Economos-Miller & M.C. OverholtResearch -
Assembling Wood in Mexico
Alexander Garduño & Veronika KudriashovaResearch -
Between the Rust Belt and the Amazon: Extraction, Empire, and the Architecture of Vila Serra do Navio
Vanessa GrossmanResearch -
Andean Ecologies, Cosmologies, and Fictions across Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador
José IbarraResearch -
Vietnamese Protean Modernism and the Architecture of Thuận Tiến Nguyễn
Duc LeResearch -
As the Basic Repository of Inextinguishable Desires
Le'Andra LeSeurResearch -
Towards the Third Foundation of Buenos Aires: Facsimile Edition of Le Corbusier’s Unpublished Plan (1929–1948)
Jorge Francisco Liernur & Isabella MorettiResearch -
Invisible Plan: W. Joseph Black’s Black Arts Movement
Peter L'OfficialResearch -
Skyline: Rereading an Architectural Tabloid
Alex Maymind, Lauren McQuistion & David TurturoResearch -
The Proper Knowledge / The Proper Purpose
Sharifa Rhodes-PittsResearch -
Future Tense – Queering the Third World Architecture
Arlette Quynh-Anh TranResearch -
Brick by Brick: Black Builders and the American Landscape
Jay CephasVIDEO SERIES
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