CURRENT EXHIBITION
CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal
Curated by Floating Museum 
Through Jan 27, 2024

GALLERY AND BOOKSHOP HOURS
Wednesday–Saturday, 12–5 p.m.
Free admission, no reservations required

CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal at the Graham features work by: 
Cecil McDonald, Jr.
Dream The Combine
interim studio (Nora Akawi and Eduardo Rega Calvo) with Jumanah Abbas; Salim al-Kadi, Khaled Malas, Alfred Tarazi, and Jana Traboulsi (Sigil Collective); Taesha Aurora; Jeankarlos Cruz; Muna Dajani; Nadine Fattaleh; Martina Duque Gonzalez; Haitham Haddad (Studio Mnjnk); Aamer Ibraheem; Mapping Memories of Resistance project (Birzeit University, London School of Economics, Al-Marsad Arab Center for Human Rights in the Golan); Emad Madah; Rami Nakhle; Daniel Ruiz; Frederick Rapp; and Holly Nicole Smithberger
Larissa Fassler

Curated by the interdisciplinary arts collective the Floating Museum, CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal features the work of more than 80 local and global participants in exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Architecture Center, Graham Foundation, the James R. Thompson Center, and other sites across the city.

For more information on the exhibition, CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, click here.

The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the 2023 Carter Manny Awards for doctoral dissertations and research by emerging scholars. Through this annual program the Graham supports work that contributes to new narratives in contemporary understanding of architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

The winner of the 2023 Carter Manny Writing Award is Aaron Tobey and the winner of the 2023 Carter Manny Research Award is Jia Weng. Both are history and theory of architecture doctoral candidates at Yale University School of Architecture. These projects, along with eight citations of special recognition, were selected by an external panel of scholars.

Tobey’s dissertation, “Drawing Management: Corporate Organization, International Practice, and the Making of Computer Aided Design,” details how computer aided design software and practices common today were coconstructed with transformations in the internal organization and international geography of architectural production at several large American architectural firms around information management and the design of design processes from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s.

Weng’s dissertation, “Environmental Conduits in China: Pipe Politics, Fluid Management, and the Rise of the Global Airscape,” investigates the evolution of heating and cooling conduits in China through three episodes in the twentieth century and examines how information-controlled material flows gave rise to a global airscape that generated thermal inequalities between kinetic elites and migrant workers through architecture.

The Carter Manny Award program—named for architect Carter H. Manny (1918–2017) in recognition of his contributions to the Graham Foundation, as founding trustee in 1956, director from 1971–93, and as director emeritus—has granted 45 awards and 139 citations representing over $1 million in support of this important student work since its establishment in 1996.

The 2023 Carter Many Awards panel included: Eva Díaz (Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, Pratt); Ginger Nolan (Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Southern California); and Adedoyin Teriba (Assistant Professor of Art History, Dartmouth).

Below is the full list of the 2023 Carter Manny Award winners and citations of special recognition. Learn more about the history of the award and browse a selection of past winners on the Foundation’s website.

2023 CARTER MANNY WRITING AWARD

Aaron Tobey

Drawing Management: Corporate Organization, International Practice, and the Making of Computer Aided Design
Yale University, School of Architecture

2023 CARTER MANNY RESEARCH AWARD



Jia Weng
Environmental Conduits in China: Pipe Politics, Fluid Management, and the Rise of the Global Airscape
Yale University, School of Architecture

2023 CARTER MANNY WRITING AWARD CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

An Tairan
The Incidental Artifactuality of the Observational Sciences in Italy, c. 1840–1880
Princeton University, School of Architecture
This project investigates the erratic media byproducts and unintended artifactual consequences both triggered and revealed by a group of research institutions established for the scientific observation of nature in mid-to-late nineteenth-century Italy.

Deepthi Bathala
Famine crops, Plantations, and Environmental Imaginaries: Botanical gardens in colonial and contemporary India
University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
The genealogy of the earliest colonial botanical gardens in India illustrates a contingent colonial project of improvement, that of constructing regional climate imaginaries corresponding to ephemeral agricultural landscapes, contested, mediated and negotiated by human and non-human actors.

Michael Moynihan
Aggregative Expertise: A Global History of Housing, Information Science, and the Deprofessionalization of the Architect, 1973–82
Cornell University, Department of Architecture
This dissertation focuses on three projects funded by national governments (Mexico, Argentina, and Spain) to demonstrate that in the 1970s, expertise related to housing shifted from professional architects to aggregate experts working in entrepreneurial/consultancy groups, governmental research institutions, and international development aid agencies.

Chelsea Spencer
The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building, 1870–1930
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning
At once a media history of the construction industry and a shadow history of modern architecture, this dissertation traces the rise of general contracting in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Sylvia Wu
Mosques on the Edge: Tale and Survival of Muslim Monuments in Coastal China
University of Chicago, Department of Art History
The dissertation is a close study of the Qingjing Mosque complex in Quanzhou, China, whose medieval and contemporary sections have distinct histories but are made to conform to a coherent historical narrative that subsequently allows the site's newly constructed architectural profile to eclipse that of its premodern past.

2022 CARTER MANNY RESEARCH AWARD CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Angelika Joseph
Red Power Takeover: Native American Activists, Colonial Landscapes, and the Design of Sovereignty
Princeton University, Humanities Council and School of Architecture
This dissertation examines the strategies by which Red Power Movement activists designed social, cultural, and political transformations, weaponizing landscapes shaped by their oppressors against the state and creating new worlds within old architectural forms.

Adam Longenbach
Stagecraft / Warcraft: The Rise of the Military Mock Village in the American West, 1942–1953
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
This dissertation investigates the mid-twentieth century rise of the military "mock village," experimental sites where novel ways of seeing and constructing architecture coincided with the production of new forms of violence and destruction.

Qiran Shang
“It’s Only Dancing…”: Urban Spaces, Pleasure, and Resistance in Berlin, San Francisco, and Shanghai, 1924–1989
University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design
Analyzing how people have historically made spaces of popular dance into sites of resistance, this dissertation illuminates gay and lesbian dance venues in 1920s Berlin, countercultural landscapes of dance in 1960s San Francisco, and students’ spontaneous dance parties and queer ballrooms in 1980s Shanghai by studying rare films and photographs, memoirs, oral testimonies, as well as maps and building plans.

UPCOMING GRANT DEADLINES
2024 Grants to Individuals: application due September 15, 2023
2024 Carter Manny Award: application available September 15; due November 15, 2023
2024 Grants to Organizations: application available January 15, 2024; due February 25, 2024

Images: [1] Screen photograph of the interface of DRAW3D displaying a three-dimensional wireframe model of Chicago's "loop" district compiled using several other graphic and non-graphic programs created at SOM for DEC mainframe computers and Tektronix Graphics Terminals by the beginning of the 1980s, 1980, Chicago. Courtesy SOM / Copyright SOM
[2] Thomas T. K. Zung and Shoji Sadao, China International Trade Center, Tianjin or Beijing, China, 1986–89. From Thomas T. K. Zung, ed., "Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the Millennium," (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 2014). Courtesy Thomas T. K. Zung

2024 grants to individuals inquiry form, due September 15, 2023

Supporting individuals is at the core of the Graham Foundation’s mission to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The original grantmaking program of the Foundation was designed to provide direct support to individuals.

Since its founding in 1956, the Graham Foundation has awarded over 5,000 grants—with over 2,800 grants awarded to individuals, representing an investment of more than 20 million USD. Such support has gone to emerging and established architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, scholars, writers, and other individuals working in the field of architecture.

As one of the few funders of individuals in the field of architecture, the Foundation's grants provide important support for individuals to conduct research, and produce exhibitions, publications, and other projects that engage ideas across contemporary architecture discourse. Through its annual open call—a two-stage application process—the Graham Foundation offers two types of grants to individuals: Research and Production + Presentation grants.

The first stage inquiry form for 2024 is now available online and is due September 15, 2023. For more information about the Graham Foundation grantmaking programs and eligibility requirements—and to explore hundreds of funded projects from the last decade—visit grahamfoundation.org.

Upcoming grant application deadlines
2024 grants to individuals: inquiry form available, due September 15, 2023
2024 Carter Manny award: application available September 15, due November 15, 2023
2024 grants to organizations: inquiry form available January 13, 2024, due February 25, 2024

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

Huda Tayob, "Index of Edges," 2023. Archival college. Courtesy Huda Tayob. From the 2023 grant to Huda Tayob for the installation Index of Edges, opening in The Laboratory of the Future, 18th International Architecture Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia 

The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the award of 64 new grants to individuals working to realize innovative and interdisciplinary ideas that contribute critical perspectives on architecture and design. Selected from approximately 500 submissions, the funded projects include publications, research, exhibitions, films, podcasts, digital initiatives, public programs and other formats that further ideas, discussions, and new understandings of architecture. The funded projects are led by 92 individuals that include established and emerging architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, historians, and writers, based in cities such as Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Ahmedabad, India; Bandung, Indonesia; Beirut, Lebanon; Buenos Aires, Argentina; New York, NY; Paris, France; Oklahoma City, OK; Porto, Portugal; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and Chicago, IL where the Graham Foundation is based.

Among the funded projects in the 2023 award cycle are several installations that open in the 18th International Architecture Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia, Venice this week. Projects presented in the main exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future, curated by Graham Foundation grantee Lesley Lokko include: The Uhuru Catalogues by Thandi Loewenson; TEXTURAL THRESHOLD HAIR SALON: Dreadlock by Felecia Davis; Black City Astrolabe by J. Yolande Daniels; and Index of Edges by Huda Tayob. In national pavilions, 2023 individual grantee projects include: La Casa Tappeto by Giovanni Bellotti, Alessandra Covini, and Adelita Husni-Bey in the Italian Pavilion curated by Fosbury Architecture; and Labor (Un)settlement and Migration Futures by N H D M: Nahyun Hwang and David Moon in the Korean Pavilion curated by artistic directors Soik Jung and Kyong Park.

The Graham Foundation also made a special grant to Cleveland-based SPACES, for their commission of the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year. The pavilion features the exhibition, Everlasting Plastics, curated by Tizziana Baldenebro and Lauren Leving, with the artists Xavi Laida Aguirre, Simon Anton, Ang Li, Norman Teague, and Lauren Yeager.

The 2023 grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 67 years. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than $43 million dollars in direct support to over 5,000 projects by individuals and organizations around the world. Learn more about each project by clicking the links below.

EXHIBITIONS

KJ Abudu (Lagos, Nigeria; London, United Kingdom; and New York, NY)
Traces of Ecstasy

Giovanni Bellotti, Alessandra Covini, and Adelita Husni-Bey (New York, NY, and Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
La Casa Tappeto

Radhi Ben Hadid, Meriem Chabani, and John Edom (Paris, France)
Muqarnas—Sacred Grounds

Gabriel Cira, James Heard, and Julian Phillips (Boston, MA)
Stull & Lee: Black Architecture Vision for an Infrastructural City

J. Yolande Daniels (Cambridge, MA)
Black City Astrolabe

Felecia Davis (State College, PA)
TEXTURAL THRESHOLD HAIR SALON: Dreadlock

Megan Echols and Dana McKinney (Miami, FL and Washington, DC)
Black—Still

N H D M: Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon (New York, NY)
Migrating Futures

Chandra M. Laborde (San Francisco, CA)
Transecological (Re)Imaginations in the Tenderloin

Thandi Loewenson (London, United Kingdom)
The Uhuru Catalogues

Andrea Molina Cuadro (New York, NY)
Geo-Fantasies: A Space Race on Planet Earth

Marco Piscitelli (Oklahoma City, OK)
Rust on a Razor Blade: Mickey Muennig in Big Sur, 1970–2000

Tivon Rice (Seattle, WA)
A Pattern Language for Spatial Adjacencies

Huda Tayob (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Index of Edges

FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS

Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn (London, United Kingdom and New York, NY)
Design Emergency

Becky Beamer and Jori Erdman (Charlottesville, VA and Oslo, Norway)
Witness: Design of the Tougaloo Center for Racial Justice and Equity

Joseph Bedford (Blacksburg, VA)
Attention Audio Journal, Issues 8, 9, and 10

Kenny Cupers, Makau Kitata, and Chao Tayiana Maina (Basel, Switzerland and Nairobi, Kenya)
Kamirithu Theatre: An Architecture for Decolonization

Maria Gaspar (Chicago, IL)
I Believe in the Things You Cannot See

Ana Miljački (Boston, MA)
I Would Prefer Not To

Vaissnavi Shukl (Ahmedabad, India)
Architecture Off-Centre

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Isabel Duarte, Maya Ober, and Nina Paim (Basel, Switzerland and Porto, Portugal)
Etceteras: feminist festival of design and publishing

Liz Gálvez and José Ibarra (Denver, CO and New York, NY)
Latinx Coalition Chats

PUBLICATIONS

Carla Aramouny and Sandra Frem (Beirut, Lebanon)
Shifting Grounds [the ground between form and practice in Beirut]

Anna Bokov (New York, NY)
From Method to Style: “Elements of Spatial Composition” and Architectural Pedagogy after Vkhutemas

Kofi Boone and M. Elen Deming (Durham and Raleigh, NC)
Empty Pedestals: Narratives on History, Race and Public Design

Craig Buckley (New York, NY)
The Street and the Screen: Architectures of Spectatorship in the Age of Cinema

Íñigo Cornago Bonal, Vishwanath Kashikar, and Christoph Lueder (Ahmedabad, India and London, United Kingdom)
How to Build with Time? Learning from Bimanagar, Ahmedabad, India

Alexander Eisenschmidt (Chicago, IL)
Félix Candela from Mexico City to Chicago: Rise and Fall of Experimentation in Concrete

Makram el Kadi and Ziad Jamaleddine (Beirut, Lebanon and New York, NY)
From the Mountain to the Sea: Architectural Excursions in the Lebanese Landscape and Beyond

Yun Fu (Cambridge, MA)
Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground

Arnika Fuhrmann (Ithaca, NY)
In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City

Anna Goodman (Portland, OR)
Citizen Architects: How Hands-on Building in Architectural Education Shaped a Nation

Elisavet Hasa (London, United Kingdom)
Building Solidarity Architectures: Social Movements, Welfare Crisis and State Abandonment

Lydia Kallipoliti and Areti Markopoulou (Barcelona, Spain and New York, NY)
EDIBLE; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism

John Keenen (New York, NY)
Tony Smith Architecture Catalogue Raisonné

Gili Merin (Vienna, Austria)
Analogous Jerusalem

Faiza Moatasim (Los Angeles, CA)
Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad

Léa Namer (Paris, France)
Chacarita Moderna: The Brutalist Necropolis of Buenos Aires by the Architect Itala Fulvia Villa

Anjulie Rao (Chicago, IL)
Weathered, Season 2

Judith Raum (Berlin, Germany)
Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture

Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió (San Diego, CA)
Inland Empire: Settler Colonialism, Modern Architecture, and the Rise of American Hegemony

Davide Spina (Zurich, Switzerland)
Roman Leviathan: Architecture and Capitalism in Postwar Italy

Oscar Tuazon (Los Angeles, CA)
Los Angeles Water School

Stathis G. Yeros (Gainesville, FL)
Queering Urbanism: Architecture, Embodiment, and Queer Citizenship

Claire Zimmerman (Ann Arbor, MI)
Albert Kahn, Inc. and the Architecture of Capitalism, 1905–1961

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Gouled Ahmed and Asmaa Jama (Bristol, United Kingdom and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Together we fled a realm

Toby Altman (Chicago, IL)
Prairie School

Carmen Amengual (Los Angeles, CA)
A Non-Coincidental Mirror

Tutin Aryanti (Bandung, Indonesia)
Women’s Prayer Space: The Politics of Sex Segregation

Minne Atairu (New York, NY)
The Menstrual Isolation Room is a Spa!

Bruno Borgna, Mauricio Corbalán, and Pío Torroja (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Giving Voice to the Río de La Plata Basin

Stephanie Choi (New York, NY)
Twilight Requiem

Yasmina El Chami (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Building “International Goodwill”: American Campuses in the “Near East,” 1919–1964

Design Earth: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy (Cambridge, MA)
Elephant in the Room, and Other Fables

Curry J. Hackett (Boston, MA)
Drylongso: Imaging the Black Landscape

Suzy Halajian and Noah Simblist (Los Angeles, CA and Richmond, VA)
Cracks in the Edifice: Niemeyer’s Futuristic Fairground in Tripoli

Nusaibah Khan (Portland, OR)
Productive Landscapes in Srinagar—A Case of Floating Gardens and Hanji Settlements of Dal Lake

Sharon Leung (Los Angeles, CA)
An Ode to Basement Workshop 1971–86

Paula Koeler Lira and Tatiana Pinto (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Stockholm, Sweden)
Entangled Ecologies

Camila Palomino and Sean Vegezzi (New York, NY)
Civic Gaze

Deepa Ramaswamy (Houston, TX)
Reclaimed Lands: The Ecological Legacies of Colonial Bombay’s Coasts

Alex Strada (New York, NY)
House of D

Feifei Zhou (New York, NY)
Between Land and Water—Architecture of Porosity

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce Katherine Simóne Reynolds as a Graham Foundation Fellow. Synthesizing the Foundation’s grantmaking and exhibition programs, the program acknowledges the investment and resources required to produce an exhibition and invites an artist to create new work that engages the mission of the Graham Foundation—to explore ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. Providing space, support, and financial resources for the production of new work, the Fellowship enables the Fellow to experiment with production techniques and, often, to create work at a new scale. The Fellowship culminates with an exhibition at the Foundation’s Madlener House galleries in Chicago.

As a Graham Foundation Fellow, Reynolds is working in residence at the Madlener House and will make a new body of work for the exhibition, A different kind of tender and the practice of overhealing, opening in spring 2023 at the Graham Foundation. Continuing her exploration of overhealing from trauma, Reynolds references the creation of a keloid, or hypertropic scar tissue, as an outward representation of healing—a site sensitive to recovery and repair in tandem. As a part of her Graham Fellowship, Reynolds looks at the Rust Belt as a kind of keloidal landscape—places in Illinois such as Cairo and Brooklyn, also known as Lovejoy, the first town incorporated by African Americans in the United States in 1873—to reflect on relationships between perceptions of abandonment and fertility, Black female imagination, and different manifestations of healing.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Katherine Simóne Reynolds practice investigates emotional dialects and psychogeographies of Blackness, and the importance of “anti-excellence.” Her work physicalizes emotions and experiences by constructing pieces that include portrait photography, video works, choreography, sculpture, and installation. Taking cues from the midwestern post-industrial melancholic landscape having grown up in the metro east area of Saint Louis, she formed an obsessive curiosity around the practices of healing as well as around a societal notion of progress spurning from a time of industrial success. Utilizing Black embodiment and affect alongside her own personal narrative as a place of departure has made her question her own navigation of ownership, inclusion, and authenticity within a contemporary gaze. She draws inspiration from Black glamour and beauty while interrogating the notion of “authentic care.” Her practice generally deals in Blackness from her own perspective, and she continuously searches for what it means to produce “Black Work.”

Reynolds has exhibited and performed work within many spaces and institutions including the Pulitzer Arts Foundation; The Museum of Modern Art; and SculptureCenter. She has exhibited in national and international group and solo shows, has spoken at the Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Black Midwest Initiative Symposium at University of Minnesota. Alongside her visual art practice, she has embarked on curatorial projects at The Luminary; SculptureCenter; and upcoming exhibitions for Stanley Museum of Art as well as Clyfford Still Museum.

ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP
The Fellowship program extends the legacy of the Foundation’s first awards, made in 1957, and continues the tradition of support to individuals to explore innovative perspectives on spatial practices in design culture. These initial fellowships provided a diverse group of practitioners a platform to pursue innovative ideas in the field, and they included alumni such as experimental architect Frederick J. Kiesler, painter Wilfredo Lam, Pritzker Prize winning architects Balkrishna V. Doshi and Fumihiko Maki, designer Harry Bertoia, photographer Harry M. Callahan, and sculptor Eduardo Chillida, among others.

Artist David Hartt piloted the contemporary Fellow program with his new body of work in the forest, which premiered at the Graham in the fall of 2017. Click below to learn more about other Graham Foundation Fellows and their work at the Madlener House:

Brendan Fernandes, The Master and Form installation in collaboration with Norman Kelley (2018)
Torkwase Dyson, Wynter-Wells School (2018)
Martine Syms, Incense Sweaters & Ice (2018–19)
Nelly Agassi, Spirit of the Waves (2019)
Tatiana Bilbao, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: Unraveling Modern Living (2019–20)
Sergio Prego, Poured Architecture: Sergio Prego on Miguel Fisac (2020)
Anna Martine Whitehead, FORCE! an opera in three acts (2020–21)
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Exits Exist (2022–23)
Mark Wasiuta (forthcoming)

Image: Katherine Simóne Reynolds, Self Portrait in front of McGuiness Grocery Store, Cairo, IL, 2022.
Digital photograph. Courtesy the artist

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the 2022 Carter Manny Awards for outstanding doctoral dissertations on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

The winner of the 2022 Carter Manny Writing Award is Dicle Taskin, a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan’s A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. The winner of the 2022 Carter Manny Research Award is Robin Hartanto Honggare, a doctoral candidate at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. These projects, along with seven citations of special recognition, were selected by an external panel of scholars.

Taskin’s dissertation, “The Pan-American Highway Project: Imageries, Infrastructures, and Landscapes of Hemispheric (Dis)Integration, 1923–70,” traces the contested promise of hemispheric integration through the Pan-American Highway project, and questions how the uneven power dynamics of Pan-Americanism were negotiated through the representation, planning, and construction of this large-scale infrastructure project and its imprint in the built environment.

Hartanto Honggare’s dissertation, “Building Commodities: Environments of the Colonial Plantation in East Sumatra, 1869–1942,” studies the conversion of native land into plantation fields and the creation of an extensive network of buildings sustaining commodity production in East Sumatra.

Since its establishment in 1996, the Carter Manny Award program has granted 43 awards and 129 citations totaling $978,000. The program—named for architect Carter H. Manny (1918–2017) in recognition of his contributions to the Graham Foundation, as founding trustee in 1956, director from 1971–93, and as director emeritus—is the only predoctoral award dedicated to architectural scholarship and supports projects that are poised to impact how architecture is studied and practiced.

Panelists for the 2022 awards included: Lawrence Chua (Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Syracuse University); Pamela Karimi (Professor of Art History and Interim Chair, College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth); and Jamila Moore Pewu (Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and New Media in History, Department of History, California State University, Fullerton).

Below is the full list of the 2022 Carter Manny Award winners and citations of special recognition. Learn more about the history of the award and browse a selection of past winners on the Foundation’s website.

 

2022 CARTER MANNY WRITING AWARD

Dicle Taskin
University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
“The Pan-American Highway Project: Imageries, Infrastructures, and Landscapes of Hemispheric (Dis)Integration, 1923–70”

2022 CARTER MANNY RESEARCH AWARD

Robin Hartanto Honggare
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
“Building Commodities: Environments of the Colonial Plantation in East Sumatra, 1869–1942”


2022 CARTER MANNY WRITING AWARD CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Giulia Amoresano
University of California Los Angeles, Department of Architecture and Urban Design
“Cultivating the Italian Empire: Architecture and the Origins of the Global South, 1861–1914”
This project examines the spatial politics that directed the modernization of the newly constituted nation-state of Italy as transnational practices focused on agrarianism and performed by architects, politicians, and subjects traditionally defined as colonized to expand traditional notions of the relation between architecture, coloniality, and processes of nation-state building.

Ana Gisele Ozaki
Cornell University, History of Architecture and Urban Development
“New Brazils in Africa: Transatlantic Tropical Futurities, Racial Miscegenation, and Plantation Legacies, 1910–74”
An exploration of “new Brazils” ideals of architectural futurity, where legacies of the colonial plantation stand as a model of tropical adaptation, hybridity, and racial miscegenation for frameworks of territory, nation, colony, and self in architectural exchanges between Brazil, West Africa, and Southern Africa.

Elliott Sturtevant
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
“Empire’s Stores: Graphic Methods, Corporate Architecture, and Entrepôt Urbanism in America, 1876–1939”
Looking to understand the landscapes, architectures, and visual cultures of American business as key sites and agents of the corporate-led, turn-of-the-century territorial and economic expansion in the US, this dissertation studies four firms that straddled US borders.

Taylor Van Doorne
University of California, Santa Barbara, History of Art and Architecture
“Ephemeral Monuments, the Modern French State, and the Parisian Public, 1789–1848”
A diachronic study of the strategies of affective persuasion by which the ephemeral monuments and their print mediations of state-sponsored festivals in Paris sought to build and reinforce consensus in favor of a series of ideologically convergent political regimes between 1789 and 1848.

2022 CARTER MANNY RESEARCH AWARD CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Jessica L. Puff
University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
“Settler Colonialism and the National Historic Preservation Act: Preserving History and Historic Preservation Policy in the Pacific Islands”
An analysis of how settler colonialization establishes racial and cultural bias within the historic preservation field, informs public policy and professional practice, and influences what is determined historic and worthy of preservation to explore avenues for decolonization and reform.

Caroline Filice Smith
Harvard University, History of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning
“Planning Participation: Urban Design, Black Power, and the Struggle for Community Control During the American Century”
By exploring the role of conservative philanthropic foundations, the US government, and the Black Power movement in defining the limits of this now dominant paradigm, this dissertation traces a genealogy of Participatory Planning from the 1920s through the 1970s.

Y. L. Lucy Wang
Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology
“Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894–1949”
Studying building codes in Hong Kong, hospital construction in Manchuria and Beijing, and modernist Chinese gardens in Shanghai, this dissertation asks how the merging of medical and architectural expertise shaped the project of modernity in the Sinosphere.


Upcoming Grant Application Deadlines

2023 Carter Manny Award: application available September 15, 2022; due November 15, 2022
2023 Grants to Organizations: application available January 13, 2023; due February 25, 2023


Image: War Department Corps of Engineers, Chart that illustrates the status of construction of the Inter-American Highway at the termination of wartime collaboration in 1943 between Honduras and Nicaragua, 1944. Courtesy Edwin Warley James Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. From the 2022 Carter Manny Writing Award dissertation, “The Pan-American Highway Project: Imageries, Infrastructures, and Landscapes of Hemispheric (Dis)Integration, 1923–70,” by Dicle Taskin (University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning)

Himali Singh Soin, "an affirmation," 2022. Video still. Courtesy the artist 

Furthering its mission to support the development and exchange of ideas about architecture and design, the Graham Foundation announces the award of 36 grants to organizations. These projects include exhibitions, publications, digital initiatives, and other public presentations led by organizations based in cities such as Accra, Buenos Aires, Colombo, London, New York, St. Louis, Toronto, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based. Together, these organizations support the work of architects, artists, designers, critics, curators, scholars, and others, to explore new possibilities for the field and engage practitioners and publics worldwide.

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 $42 million in direct support to nearly 5,000 projects by organizations and individuals.

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

EXHIBITIONS

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

Anyone Corporation (New York, NY)
Model Behavior

Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Himali Singh Soin: Static Range

The Arts Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures

The Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City, CA)
Harpers Ferry: An Interpretive Epicenter

Counterpublic (St. Louis, MO)
Counterpublic 2023

Disponible (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Making Architecture Available, 2022–23 Program

Floating Museum (Chicago, IL)
Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats

LIGA—Space for Architecture (Mexico City, Mexico)
Arquitectura Para Dioses (Architecture for Gods)

MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, at the Schindler House (West Hollywood, CA)
Seeking Zohn

Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip—Hop Architecture

Queens Museum (New York, NY)
Charisse Pearlina Weston: of [a] tomorrow: lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust.

Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL)
Echo, 10th Anniversary Ragdale Ring: Reconnecting to Our Roots

Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, NY)
On The Ground

Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH)
Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective


FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS

The Architectural League of New York (New York, NY)
Seeing the Whole: Design for Climate, Biodiversity, and Justice in a Complex and Dynamic World

Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (New York, NY)
New Angle: Voice

Society of Architectural Historians—Race and Architectural History Affiliate Group (Chicago, IL)
I Pity the Countries: Comparative Spatial Histories of Settler Colonialism, Race & Podcast


PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL)
2022 Design Matters Conference

Mobile Makers Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Interdisciplinary and Intergenerational Design Summit


PUBLICATIONS

African Futures Institute (Accra, Ghana)
FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, Volume 3: 19.8

Bracket (Toronto, Canada)
Bracket [On Sharing]

California College of the Arts—Architecture Division (San Francisco, CA)
Reviewing Design Book Review

Concordia University Press (Montreal, Canada)
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds

The Experiment (New York, NY)
Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City

Faktur (University Park, PA)
Faktur: Documents and Architecture, Issues No. 4 and 5

Geoffrey Bawa Trust (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Drawing from the Geoffrey Bawa Archives

Goldsmiths College, London University—Centre for Research Architecture (London, United Kingdom)
Research Architecture: Provocations, Practices, and Propositions

Manifest Institute of the Americas (New York, NY)
Manifest: A Journal of the Americas, Issues 4–5

MAS Context (Chicago, IL)
MAS Context 34: AIR

New York Review of Architecture (New York, NY)
New York Review of Architecture, 2022


STUDENT-LED PUBLICATIONS

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

Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston, TX)
PLAT 12.0

Texas Tech University—College of Architecture (Lubbock, TX)
CROP 10: YIELD

University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles, CA)
POOL, Issue No. 08

University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (Chicago, IL)
Fresh Meat Journal 14

Upcoming Grant Application Deadlines

2023 Grants to Individuals: September 15, 2022
2023 Carter Manny Award: application available September 15, 2022; due November 15, 2022
2023 Grants to Organizations: application available January 13, 2023; due February 25, 2023

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 56 new grants to individuals exploring new ideas—across disciplines—that expand contemporary understandings of architecture. Selected from an open call that resulted in nearly 500 submissions, the funded projects include research, exhibitions, publications, films, podcasts, digital initiatives, and other inventive formats that promote rigorous scholarship, stimulate experimentation, and foster critical discourse in architecture. The funded projects are led by 81 individuals, including established and emerging architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, historians, and photographers, based in cities such as Buenos Aires, Argentina; Beijing, China; Buffalo, NY; Cape Town, South Africa; Kathmandu, Nepal; Lagos, Nigeria; New York, NY; Porto, Portugal; Praia, Cabo Verde; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based.

The new grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported since 1956. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than 42 million dollars in direct support to almost 5,000 projects by individuals and organizations. Learn more about each grantee project by clicking the links below.

EXHIBITIONS 

Albert Brenchat-Aguilar (London, United Kingdom)
“As Hardly Found” in the Art of Tropical Architecture

Imani Jacqueline Brown (London, United Kingdom)
What remains at the ends of the earth?

Sarah Hearne (Los Angeles, CA)
Print Ready Drawings

Sophie Leddick and Edgar Orlaineta (Los Angeles, CA and Mexico City, Mexico)
Sack, mask and stick

Temitayo Ogunbiyi (Gwynedd, PA) 
You will wonder if we would have been friends

Ala Tannir (New York, NY)
The Small Old House by the Sea

Krista Thompson (Evanston, IL)
Antonius Roberts: Art, Ecology, and Sacred Space


FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS 

saay/yaas: Anna Nnenna Abengowe, Patricia Anahory, and Mawena Yehouessi (Abuja, Nigeria; New York, NY; Paris, France; Praia, Cabo Verde)
her(e), otherwise

Helene Kazan (London, United Kingdom)
Frame of Accountability

Laila Kazmi (Elk Grove, CA)
Reaching New Heights: Fazlur Rahman Khan and The Skyscraper

Catalina Mejía Moreno and Huda Tayob (Cape Town, South Africa; Hove, United Kingdom)
Architectures of the South: Bruising, Remembering, Repairing

Mona Minkara (Boston, MA)
Planes, Trains, and Canes


PUBLICATIONS

Emanuel Admassu and Anita N. Bateman (Houston, TX and New York, NY)
Where is Africa

Ashley Bigham (Columbus, OH)
Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire

Marshall Brown (Princeton, NJ)
The Architecture of Collage

Louise Emily Carver and Angela Rui (Berlin, Germany and Milan, Italy)
Aquaria. Or the Illusion of a Boxed Sea

Jean-Louis Cohen (New York, NY)
Russia's Architecture 1861–1991: Poetics and Politics

Gustavo Diéguez, Felipe Mesa, and Ana Valderrama (Buenos Aires, Argentina; Champaign, IL; and Phoenix, AZ)
Design-Build Studios in Latin America: Teaching through a Social Agenda

Chris Dingwall, David Hartt, and Daniel Schulman (Chicago, IL; Hamtramck, MI; and Philadelphia, PA)
Black Designers in Chicago

David Escudero (Madrid, Spain)
Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy

Oxana Gourinovitch (Berlin, Germany)
National Theatre: Architecture of Soviet Modernism and Nation Building

Freyja Hartzell (New York, NY)
Richard Riemerschmid's Extraordinary Living Things

Renata Hejduk, Steven Hillyer, Kim Shkapich, and Jim Williamson (Lubbock, TX; New York, NY; Scottsdale, AZ; and Wellfleet, MA)
The Ethical Mirror: Architecture, Dissidence, and the Radical Imagination

Blair Kamin and Lee Bey (Chicago, IL)
Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago

Pamela Karimi (New Bedford, MA)
Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice

Indra Kagis McEwen (Montreal, Canada)
All the King's Horses: Vitruvius in an Age of Princes

Marina Otero Verzier (Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Evanescent Institutions: On the Politics of Temporary Architecture

Adair Rounthwaite (Seattle, WA)
This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb

Ozayr Saloojee and Jamie Vanucchi (Ithaca, NY and Ottawa, Canada)
Design Research for Uncertain Futures

Joel Sanders (New York, NY)
Stalled!: Inclusive Public Restrooms

Robin Schuldenfrei (London, United Kingdom)
Objects in Exile: Modernism across Borders, 1930–1960

Mark Shepard (Buffalo, NY)
There Are No Facts: Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (New York, NY)
Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement

Susan Slyomovics (Los Angeles, CA)
Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage

Gregor Stemmrich (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Dan Graham—Some Rockin’

Jo-ey Tang (San Francisco, CA)
arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified

André Tavares (Porto, Portugal)
Architecture Follows Fish

Beth Weinstein (Tucson, AZ)
Architecture + Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space, and Time


RESEARCH PROJECTS

Riff Studio: Rekha Auguste-Nelson, Farnoosh Rafaie, and Isabel Strauss (Cambridge, MA; New York, NY; and Northridge, CA)
Architecture of Reparations—Case Study House

Michelle Barrett and Chris Daemmrich (Kansas City, MO and New Orleans, LA)
Emergent Grounds for Design Education

Kimberly Juanita Brown (Manchester, CT)
Black Elegies

Fernanda Canales (Mexico City, Mexico)
If Women Made Cities: Expanding Coexistence

Dane Carlson, Sonam Lama, and Yungdrung Tsewang (Elsah, IL; Jomsom and Kathmandu, Nepal)
Landscape is Change: Doing the Work of Making Landscape across Time

Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Mengfan Wang, and Chen Zhan (Beijing, China and London, United Kingdom)
Ripple Ripple Rippling

Tonia Sing Chi (Oakland, CA)
Storytelling Spaces of Solidarity in the Asian Diaspora

Coleman Collins (New York, NY)
The (De)Ontological Oblique

Sharmyn Cruz Rivera and Danny Giles (Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Josephine's

Aria Dean (New York, NY)
Abattoir, U.S.A!

Marco Ferrari and Elise Misao Hunchuck (Milan, Italy)
Sky River

Joseph Giovannini (New York, NY)
Zaha: A Biography

Joseph R. Hartman (San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Eye of the Hurricane: Politics of Art, Architecture, and Climate in the Modern Caribbean

Sara Hendren (Cambridge, MA)
The “Ideas Team” at Cherry Road: Day Centers, Cognitive Disability, and Reimagining the Art Therapy Encounter

Kelley Lemon (Champaign, IL)
Connections through the Black Agricultural Landscape

Nifemi Marcus-Bello (Lagos, Nigeria)
Africa—A Designer's Utopia

Sonal Mithal and Arul Paul (Ahmedabad and Mangalore, India)
Queering Nawabi Lucknow: Architecture and the Colonial Archive

Dahlia Nduom (Washington, DC)
Tourism, Tropicalization and the Architectural Image

Image: Yungdrung Tsewang, "Silt Deposits and Floodwaters in Lubra," 2022. Photograph, 3 x 5 in. Courtesy Yungdrung Tsewang From the 2022 individual grant to Dane Carlson, Sonam Lama, and Yungdrung Tsewang for "Landscape is Change: Doing the Work of Making Landscape across Time"

 

As 2021 comes to a close, we have been taking stock of all of the amazing work Graham Foundation grantees have continued to produce during these challenging times. As our grantees push the boundaries in almost every direction imaginable to introduce new stories and perspectives on architecture and design, we are extremely grateful for their intelligence, fortitude, and courage to change the field.  

Their work comes in all forms: research, exhibitions, films, performances, publications, and new experimental modes of inquiry. As a sample of the abundance of projects produced by our grantees, we want to share the 100+ publications published by Graham grantees over the course of the last two years. To explore these titles visit our home page: grahamfoundation.org. We hope that they inspire you, provoke conversation, and spark even more ideas. 

From everyone at the Graham Foundation we wish you a safe and happy new year and we look forward to sharing more grantee news with you in 2022.

Join us in congratulating the grantees that released new publications in 2020 and 2021:  Stan Allen; Anyone Corporation; ar/ge kunst; The Architectural League of New York; Iwan Baan and Silvia Benedito; Daniel A. Barber; Bard Graduate Center Gallery; Juliana Rowen Barton, Michelle Millar Fisher, Zoë Greggs, Gabriella Nelson, and Amber Winick; Erin and Ian Besler; Anna Bokov; Andrea Branzi and Elisa C. Cattaneo; Larry D. Busbea; Canadian Centre for Architecture; Sara Jensen Carr; Michael Carriere and David Schalliol; Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, and Mabel O. Wilson; Lawrence Chua; Alison J. Clarke; Joseph L. Clarke; Columbia University—Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Kenny Cupers, Catharina Gabrielsson, and Helena Mattsson; Roberto Damiani; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum; Teresa Fankhänel; Fenester; Flat Out Inc.; Giulia Foscari; The Funambulist; Kersten Geers, Stefano Graziani, Joris Kritis, and Jelena Pancevac; Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, and Niloufar Tajeri; Prem Krishnamurthy with Céline Condorelli, Femke Herregraven, Grace Ndiritu, and Liz Jensen; Joseph Giovannini; The Green Lantern Press; Janina Gosseye, Naomi Stead, and Deborah van der Plaat; Vanessa Grossman and Ciro Miguel; Harvard University—Graduate School of Design; Haus der Kulturen der Welt; Jane King Hession; Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff; Ron Hunt, Matthew Stuart, and Andrew Walsh-Lister; Infranet Lab; Sharon Irish; Matthew Kennedy and Pep Avilés; Seng Kuan; Lampo; Lars Müller Publishers; Nana Last; Johana Londoño; Manifest; Alex Martínez Suárez; MAS Context; Brian McGrath and Sereypagna Pen; MIT Future Heritage Lab; Sarah M. Miller; The Museum of Modern Art; New York Review of Architecture; Office for Political Innovation (Andrés Jaque); Paprika!; Places Journal; Vikramaditya Prakash; Pricegore (Dingle Price and Alex Gore) and Yinka llori; Primary Information; Todd Reisz; Rice University—School of Architecture; The Richard H. Driehaus Museum; David K. Ross; Erin Eckhold Sassin; The School of Architecture; Christina Schwenkel; Steve Seid; Elisa Silva; Giovanna Silva; Katherine Smith; Society of Architectural Historians; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Penny Sparke; Standpunkte; Despina Stratigakos; Candacy Taylor; Thames & Hudson; Neyran Turan; University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design; University of Florida—Graduate School of Architecture; University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts; University of Maryland, College Park—School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; University of Miami—School of Architecture; University of Toronto—John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design; University of Utah—School of Architecture; Jessica Vaughn; WAI Architecture Think Tank (Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia); Folayemi Wilson 

You can also learn more about a decade of grantee projects—nearly 1,000 projects—on their dedicated grantee pages by going to grantee projects in the menu on grahamfoundation.org

 

We are pleased to highlight a number of exhibitions currently open around the world that are supported by the Graham Foundation:

Alvaro Urbano: The Great Ruins of Saturn
On view at Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York) through February 26, 2022

The Architects Collaborative 1945–1995: Tracing a Diffuse Architectural Authorship
On view at pinkcomma (Boston) through February, 2022

Counter Gravity: The Films of Heinz Emigholz
On view at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) through December 20, 2021

DAAR Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti: Stateless Heritage
On view at The Mosaic Rooms (London) through January 30, 2022

The Design of Carpets That Design Us
On view at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal) through February 20, 2022

Florian Hecker: Resynthesizers
Organized by Equitable Vitrines and on view at Fitzpatrick-Leland House, MAK Center for Art and Architecture (Los Angeles) through March 13, 2022

Heather Hart: Afrotecture (Re)Collection
On view at The University at Buffalo Art Galleries (Buffalo) through May 21, 2022

Interior Landscape Residency: Twin Projects, Can I Hug You?
On view at Space P11 (Chicago) through February 28, 2022

Justice is Beauty: The Work of MASS Design Group
On view at National Building Museum (Washington, DC) through September 25, 2022

Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock
On view at Cranbrook Art Museum (Detroit) through March 20, 2022

Our Silver City, 2094
On view at Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham) through April 18, 2022

Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow
On view in New Orleans through January 23, 2022

SAY IT LOUD: NOMA 50th Exhibition
Organized by the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and on view at Detroit Historical Society (Detroit) through January 9, 2022


Image: Heather Hart, Sweet Lorraine, 2021, installation view, Heather Hart: Afrotecture (Re)Collection, 2021, University at Buffalo Art Galleries. Courtesy of the artist and Davidson Gallery. Photo: Nando Alvarez-Perez

 

Awarding innovative doctoral dissertation writing and research by emerging scholars of architecture and design

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the 2021–22 Carter Manny Awards for outstanding doctoral dissertations on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. Caroline E. Murphy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning; History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art) is the recipient of the Carter Manny Writing Award, and Danya Epstein (Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts; Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture) is honored with the Carter Manny Research Award. These projects were selected by an external panel of scholars in addition to six citations of special recognition.

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Carter Manny Award program which has awarded 41 awards, 122 citations, and $936,000 since its establishment in 1996. The program—named for architect Carter H. Manny (1918–2017) and his contributions to the Graham Foundation, as founding trustee 1956, director 1993–71, and director emeritus—is the only pre-doctoral award dedicated to architectural scholarship and supports projects that are poised to impact how architecture is studied and practiced.

Panelists for the 2021–22 awards included: Jiat-Hwee Chang (Associate Professor and Deputy Head, Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore); Ateya A. Khorakiwala (Assistant Professor, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation); and Stephanie Whitlock (Executive Director, Architectural Heritage Center).

Below is the full list of the 2021–22 Carter Manny Award recipients and citations of special recognition. Learn more about the history of the award and browse a list of past winners here.

Upcoming Deadline

2022–23 Carter Manny Award: November 15, 2021

 

Image: Gherardo Mechini, Map of the Chio Valley in Castiglion Fiorentino showing the Celone and Vingone Rivers, ca. 1580–1620. Ink and watercolor on paper, 345 x 470 mm. Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Piante dei Capitani di Parte Guelfa, Cartoni, XX/20. Courtesy the Ministero della Cultura, Archivio di Stato di Firenze. From the 2021–22 Carter Manny Writing Award dissertation, “Waters and Wealth: Rivers, Infrastructure, and the Territorial Imagination in Grand Ducal Tuscany, ca. 1549–1609,” by Caroline E. Murphy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning, Department of Architecture)