Subject: 2003 Carter Manny Award Competition
Sent on: 7/10/2003

The Graham Foundation's Carter Manny Award supports research for academic dissertations by scholars who are presently candidates for a doctoral degree and whose dissertations focus on topics directly concerned with architecture or with other arts that are immediately contributive to the study of architecture.

The Foundation is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2003 Carter Manny Award is:

Michael J. Rawson of the Department of History, University of Wisconsin at Madison. The award, worth $15,000, will support the completion of Mr. Rawson's dissertation, "Nature and the City: Class, Power, and the Creation of Metropolitan Boston, 1820-1920."

The Board of Trustees also awarded two Trustees' Merit Citations and $10,000 each to the following doctoral students:

Eric MacDonald, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison, for his thesis, "The Art which Mends Nature: The Native Landscape Movement in American Environmental Design, 1890-1950"

David Salomon, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California at Los Angeles, working on the project "One Thing or Another: The World Trade Center and the Implosion of Modernism."

Citations of Special Recognition, acknowledged by awards of $2,000, were given to the following twelve doctoral students:

Esra Akcan, Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University, "Modernity in Translation: German-Turkish Exchanges in Land Settlement and Residential Culture, 1923-1955"

Manish Chalana, Dept. of Planning and Design, University of Colorado at Denver, "Cultural Landscape Preservation in the National Parks: The Illustrative Case of Rocky Mountain National Park"

Omur Harmansah, Dept. of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, "New Urban Foundations in the Iron Age Ancient Near East: Social Representations and Physical Transformations of Landscape, Production of Urban Space, and the Architectonic Culture"

Anne Heath, Dept. of the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, "Ritual and Identity in the Cathedral of Saint-Etienne and the Abbey of Saint-Germain in Auxerre, France"

Wei-Cheng Lin, Dept. of Art History, University of Chicago, "Building a Buddhist Sacred Mountain: Monastic Architecture in Mt. Wutai during the Tang Dynasty (CE. 618-907)"

Kirsten E. Lombard, Dept. of Environment, Textiles, and Design, University of Wisconsin at Madison, "Growing Meaning: Cultural Memory in the Petit Trianon Gardens of Louis XV"

Eric Lutz, History of Art and Architecture Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, "The Architect's Eye: R.M. Schindler and His Photography"

Sara A. Morasch, Dept. of the History of Art, Bryn Mawr College, "Dominican Architecture in Colonial Oaxaca"

Kelly Quinn, Dept. of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, "Making Modern Homes: A History of Langston Terrace, A New Deal Housing Program"

Mehmet Bengu Uluenginm, Dept. of Community and Regional Planning, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, "Preservation under the Crescent and the Star: Using Neglected Voices to Develop a Normative Model for Urban Preservation in Istanbul"

Thaisa Way, Dept. of Architecture, Cornell University, "Women Landscape Architects, 1890-1940: A Different History of the Profession and the Art"

Claire Zimmerman, Dept. of Art History, City University of New York, "Photographic Construction in the German Work of Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, 1925-1931"

For further information on the Carter Manny Award, please visit the Graham Foundation Web site at www.grahamfoundation.org or call 312-787-4071, ext. 224.