The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce over $490,000 in new grants to individuals around the world to support 59 innovative projects engaging original ideas in architecture. Among the funded projects are exhibitions, publications, films, live performances, and site-specific installations. These diverse projects advance new scholarship, fuel creative experimentation and critical dialogue, and expand opportunities for public engagement with architecture and its role in contemporary society.

This year’s awarded projects were selected from a competitive pool of 640 submissions from individuals representing 42 countries. The funded projects are being undertaken by individuals and collaborative teams—94 individuals in total—who include architects, designers, curators, filmmakers, visual artists, musicians, and writers from around the world in cities such as Mexico City, Montreal, Athens, Brussels, Stockholm, Cape Town, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based. They join an international network of over 4,000 individuals and institutions that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 60 years in its role as one of the most significant funders in the field of architecture.

The full list of the 2016 grants to individuals follow below. To learn more about the new grants, click here.

2016 GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS

EXHIBITION (9 awards)
Chelsea Culprit, Ben Foch, Jaffer Kolb, Ian Quate & Colleen Tuite
François Dallegret
Rear View (Projects): Jennifer L. Davis & Su-Ying Lee
José Esparza Chong Cuy & Guillermo Ruiz De Teresa
Adelita Husni-Bey
Farzin Lotfi-Jam & V. Mitch McEwen
Anders Ruhwald
Quynh Vantu
Fo (Folayemi) Wilson

FILM/VIDEO/NEW MEDIA (8 awards)
Sebastian Alvarez, Andrew Benz, Yoni Goldstein & Meredith Zielke
Esther Figueroa & Mimi Sheller
LoVid: Tali Hinkis & Kyle Lapidus
Prudence Katze & William Lehman
Andrea Lewis & Maura Lucking
Rob Mazurek & Lee Anne Schmitt
Masha Panteleyeva, Svetlana Strelnikova & Nazli Kaya
Juan Alfonso Zapata

PUBLIC PROGRAM (2 awards)
Joshua Frankel
Aaron Landsman, Mallory Catlett & Jim Findlay

PUBLICATION (27 awards)
Michael Abel & Mina Hanna
Mai Abu ElDahab & Benjamin Seror
Zeynep Çelik Alexander
Daniel A. Barber
Pierre Bélanger & Nina-Marie Lister
Michael Boyd
Neil Brenner & Nikos Katsikis
Maristella Casciato
Benedict Clouette & Marlisa Wise
Beatriz Colomina
John Comazzi
Dale Allen Gyure
Leslie Hewitt & Bradford Young
Sean Keller
Léopold Lambert
Alexandra Lange
Amanda Reeser Lawrence & Ana Miljački
Jennifer Mack
Julian Raxworthy
Gabriel Ruiz-Larrea
Martino Stierli
James Trainor
Lori Waxman
Allan Wexler
Mary N. Woods
De Peter Yi
Jon Yoder

RESEARCH (13 awards)
Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: Tatiana Bilbao, Gabriela Álvarez, Nuria Benítez & Alba Cortés
Isabelle Doucet
Charlie Hailey & Donovan Wylie
Simon Herron & Mark Morris
Heinrich Jaeger & Dan Peterman
Parsa Khalili & Shima Mohajeri
Azadeh Mashayekhi
Mariana Mogilevich
Yasufumi Nakamori
Point Supreme: Konstantinos Pantazis & Marianna Rentzou
Damon Rich & Jae Shin
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
Filip Tejchman

Image: Allan Wexler, Hat Roof, 1994. Courtesy of the artist. From the 2016 Individual Grant to Allan Wexler for Absurd Thinking: Between Art and Design.

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Carter Manny Award. Since the establishment of this award in 1996, the Graham Foundation has awarded over $740,000 in recognition of promising doctoral students whose dissertation projects represent original and advanced scholarship in architecture and have the exciting potential to move the field in new directions. Two Carter Manny Awards are given each year, one for dissertation research and one for dissertation writing.

The winner of the 2016 Carter Manny Award for writing and a $20,000 award is Hollyamber Kennedy, a PhD candidate at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Kennedy’s dissertation, Welt bildend: Architectures of Security and Infrastructural Modernism in Germany and Beyond, 1848–1952, examines German architects, engineers, planners, and scientists across Central Europe and Africa, whose work on colonization projects, housing programs, and energy infrastructures gave rise to new forms of technical expertise and helped shape a modern image of the architect as an intervention-oriented planner.

The winner of the 2016 Carter Manny Award for research and a $15,000 award is Elisabeth Narkin, a PhD candidate in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, for her dissertation Rearing the Royals: Architecture and the Spatialization of Royal Childhood in France, 1499–1610. Narkin’s dissertation explores architecture’s relationship to conceptions of childhood and its role in the monarchy’s symbolic self-representation and evolving political strategies.

Additionally, eight students have been awarded Citations of Special Recognition for their dissertation projects. The list of citation winners follows below.

The award and citation winners were selected by an external panel after a competitive review of forty-eight applications from doctoral students throughout the U.S. and Canada who were nominated by their departments to apply for the award. This year’s review panelists were Daniel Abramson (Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Architectural Studies, Tufts University); Niall Atkinson (Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Chicago); and Alison Hirsch (Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Southern California).

The Graham Foundation offers this annual award in honor of Carter H. Manny and his long and distinguished service to the foundation since its inception in 1956, first as a Trustee, then as the Director from 1971, and since his retirement in 1993, as Director Emeritus.

Applications for the 2017 Carter Manny Award are due November 15, 2016. To learn more, see the award guidelines here.

2016 CARTER MANNY AWARD WINNERS

WRITING AWARD

Welt bildend: Architectures of Security and Infrastructural Modernism in Germany and Beyond, 1848–1952
HOLLYAMBER KENNEDY
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation


RESEARCH AWARD

Rearing the Royals: Architecture and the Spatialization of Royal Childhood in France, 1499–1610
ELISABETH NARKIN
Duke University, Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies


2016 CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

WRITING

At the Threshold of the Mediterranean: Architecture, Urbanism, and Identity in Early Modern Sicily
ELIZABETH KASSLER-TAUB
Harvard University, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Komp'iuter Architecture(s), 195X–198X
EVANGELOS KOTSIORIS
Princeton University, School of Architecture

Novel Buildings: Architectural and Narrative Form in Victorian Fiction
ASHLEY NADEAU
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of English

All Streets Lead to Temples: Mapping Monumental Histories in Kanchipuram, ca. 690–1199 CE
EMMA STEIN
Yale University, Department of the History of Art


RESEARCH

Circles of Artifice: Semi-public Interiors of Spectacle in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris
CRISTOBAL AMUNATEGUI
Princeton University, School of Architecture

Restoration, Displacement, Appropriation: Negotiating the Baroque Legacy in the National Fascist Party's Redesign of Rome 
ANNA MASCORELLA
Cornell University, Department of Architecture

Agritectures of the Green Revolution: Art, Architecture and the Agrilogistics of Transnational Aid from the United States to the Caribbean Region, 1930–1978 
NIKKI MOORE
Rice University, Department of Art History

The Architect's Knowledge: Images of History in American Architectural Education, 1800–1925 
BRYAN NORWOOD
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design



Image: Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Château of Blois, exterior façade of Louis XII wing and interior façade of Francis I wing, 1570. Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum.From the Graham Foundation's 2016 Carter Manny Award for doctoral dissertation research to Elisabeth Narkin for Rearing the Royals: Architecture and the Spatialization of Royal Childhood in France, 1499–1610.

On April 13, we will announce the winners of the 2016 Carter Manny Award. This annual award supports doctoral dissertation work by promising scholars whose projects have architecture as their primary focus and have the potential to shape contemporary discourse in the field of architecture. Two winners will be named, one for dissertation writing and one for dissertation research.

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You can also explore the projects supported through the foundation's 2015 Carter Manny Award and prior years.

The Graham Foundation is currently seeking undergraduate and graduate students of architecture, art, art education, history, design, and related programs interested in gaining experience at a non-profit arts organization, foundation, and/or cultural institution. Interns will learn through active participation in tasks related to the foundation’s exhibitions, public programs, and grant programs.

This internship requires a flexible commitment of 2 days per week (Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm) and regular evening events, with an immediate start date.

Please email a resume and cover letter to Meg Onli at monli[at]grahamfoundation.org. No phone calls please.

For more information, click here.

 

Application Deadline: February 25, 2016

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2016 Grants to Organizations. For sixty years, the Graham Foundation has provided project-based funding to individuals and organizations to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

The application for the organizational grant cycle is available online. Organizations with eligible projects are invited to apply for a Production and Presentation Grant for projects that begin after September 15, 2016.

For more information about our grant programs, to learn if a project is eligible for funding, and to access the application, please see our grant guidelines.

In 2015, the Graham Foundation awarded more than $495,000 to 49 organizations around the world. These grants provided direct support for the development and presentation of publications, exhibitions, films, and other public programs. You can browse these and other recently funded projects here.

 

Image: Superonda Sofa, Archizoom Associati, 1966 – Archive Centro Studi Poltronova. Courtesy Dario Bartolini (Archizoom Associati). From the 2015 Organizational Grant to the Walker Art Center for Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, on view through February 28, 2016.

The Graham Foundation galleries and bookshop will be closed Thursday, December 24, 2015 through January 2, 2016. Regular gallery and bookshop hours will resume the week of January 4, 2016 (Wed-Sat, 11am-6pm). Make sure to stop by and see our current exhibtion, Barbara Kasten: Stages, before it closes on Saturday, Jan. 9. 

The Graham Foundation offices will be closed: December 24, 25, 31, and Jan. 1, 2016.

The Graham Foundation galleries and bookshop will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 26-27, 2015, and will re-open on Saturday, November 28 with normal hours (Wed-Sat, 11am-6pm).

Our current exhibition, Barbara Kasten: Stages, is on view through January 9, 2016.

Photo: Jarrod Turner, Art Direction: Ria Roberts, Styling: Bettina Yung.  

The Graham Foundation Bookshop is pleased to participate in the third annual Medium Cool, a book fair and holiday gift shop taking place on November 21 and 22 at Prairie Production in Chicago. Free and open to the public, Medium Cool will feature a wide array of printed matter and designed objects from local and international publishers, distributors, artists, and designers.

The Graham Foundation will be exhibiting a variety of unique books, periodicals, and ephemera, including our original publication, Treatise, a collection of fourteen manifestos by emerging design offices from around the world, and Barbara Kasten: The Diazotypes, a new, limited-edition signed artist book co-published with D.A.P.

Stop by our table to browse our selection, learn more about the Graham Foundation's programs and upcoming events, or just say hello.

Medium Cool
Saturday, November 21, 12-6pm
Sunday, November 22, 11am-5pm

Prairie Production
1314 W. Randolph St
Chicago IL
medium-cool.com


The Graham Foundation Bookshop offers a variety of titles on architecture, art and related fields, ranging from recent Graham-funded projects to new, historically significant, and hard-to-find books and periodicals. Open Wednesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm, the bookshop is located in the Madlener House at 4 W. Burton Place.

 

We’ll be open this weekend, October 17-18, 2015, for Open House Chicago (OHC), the city’s annual architecture festival organized by the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

Since 1963 the Graham Foundation has been located in the Madlener House, a turn-of-the-century, Prairie-style mansion designed by architect Richard E. Schmidt and designer Hugh M. G. Garden. Restored in 1963 to become the Graham’s headquarters, the Madlener House features three floors of exhibition space, original art glass windows, and a courtyard garden that showcases our significant collection of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architectural fragments.

This Saturday and Sunday, come tour the Madlener House and visit our current exhibition Barbara Kasten: Stages, which includes a new, site-specific video installation by Barbara Kasten produced specifically in response to the architecture of the Madlener House.

Saturday, October 17, 11am-5pm
Sunday, October 18, 12pm-4pm

Admission to all Open House Chicago sites is free. For more information, visit: http://openhousechicago.org/.

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Carter Manny Award. Since the establishment of this award in 1996, the Graham Foundation has awarded over $700,000 to support promising scholars whose doctoral projects shape contemporary discourse about architecture and significantly impact the field. Two Carter Manny Awards are given each year, one for dissertation research and one for dissertation writing.

The winner of the 2015 Carter Manny Award for research and a $15,000 award is Jesse Lockard, a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago, for her dissertation A City Is Not A Picture: Yona Friedman, 1945–2015. Lockard’s dissertation examines the French architect’s pioneering theories of participatory design and architectural imagery, analyzing how tensions between Friedman’s theoretical and pictorial practices inspired his invention of pictographic languages and drove his experimentation with postwar technologies and new media in the 1960s and '70s.

The winner of the 2015 Carter Manny Award for writing and a $20,000 award is Vanessa Grossman, a PhD candidate at Princeton University’s School of Architecture. Grossman’s dissertation, A Concrete Alliance: Modernism, Communism, and the Design of Urban France, 1958–1981, unveils the powerful coalition that formed in the postwar era between architects and the French Communist Party, which served as a critical agent in the massive reshaping of French cities.

Additionally, five students have been awarded Citations of Special Recognition for their dissertation projects, which include: an examination of the design pedagogy at VKhUTEMAS (Higher Art and Technical Studios) in Moscow in the 1920s and '30s; an investigation of architects’ use of terra cotta to create fireproof buildings in the late 19th-century U.S.; research on the craftsmen and building culture that produced Richmond, Virginia’s colonial and antebellum urban landscape; a study of mechanical drawing and the relationship between body and machine at the dawn of America's Industrial Revolution; and an interpretation of architectural “miniatures” in medieval China.

The winners and citations were selected after a competitive panel review of 41 applications from doctoral students throughout the U.S. and Canada who were nominated by their departments for the award.

The Graham Foundation offers this annual award in honor of Carter H. Manny and his long and distinguished service to the foundation since its inception in 1956, first as a Trustee, then as the Director from 1971, and since his retirement in 1993, as Director Emeritus.

To read more about the 2015 Carter Manny Award winners, click here.


2015 CARTER MANNY AWARD WINNERS

RESEARCH AWARD

A City Is Not A Picture: Yona Friedman, 1945–2015
JESSE LOCKARD
University of Chicago, Department of Art History


WRITING AWARD

A Concrete Alliance: Modernism, Communism, and the Design of Urban France, 1958–1981
VANESSA GROSSMAN
Princeton University, School of Architecture


CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

RESEARCH

Teaching Architecture to the Masses: VKhUTEMAS, 1920–1930
ANNA BOKOV
Yale University, School of Architecture

"Cities Unburnable!" Terra Cotta and the Architecture of Fire Safety in America, 1871–1916
JOHNATHAN PUFF
University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

WRITING

The City at the Falls: Building Culture in Richmond, Virginia, 1730–1860
ELIZABETH COOK
College of William and Mary, Department of History

Drawing Machines: The Mechanics of Art in the Early Republic
ELIZABETH EAGER
Harvard University, Department of the History of Art and Architecture

A Grain of Sand: Yingzao Fashi and the Miniaturization of Chinese Architecture
DI LUO
University of Southern California, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Image: Yona Friedman, collage on a postcard visualizing a Spatial City over Paris, 1960, Paris. Collection of Centre Georges Pompidou. Courtesy of Adagp.

Iwan Baan, Chicago, 2014. 

Since our founding in 1956, the Graham Foundation has been committed to advancing the most innovative work in the field of architecture. As a Presenting Partner of the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial, we extend our support of the field with the introduction of this new international platform for groundbreaking architectural projects and spatial experiments that explore what the built environment should be in the 21st century.

The inaugural biennial takes its title, The State of the Art of Architecture, from a provocative 1977 conference organized by architect Stanley Tigerman, which invited leading American designers, such as Colin Rowe, Charles Jencks, John Hejduk, and Richard Meier, to the Graham Foundation in Chicago to discuss the current state of the field. The 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial expands the spirit and scope of this event and invites over 100 emerging and established practices from across the world to Chicago to demonstrate how advances in architectural design are tackling the most pressing issues of today.

Below are some of the many Graham-supported participants and public programs appearing in the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial:

Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative

Sebastian Alvarez, Andrew Benz, Yoni Goldstein & Meredith Zielke

Aranda\Lasch

Art Institute of Chicago

Iwan Baan

BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)

Santiago Borja

David Brown

Katarina Burin

Chicago Architecture Foundation

Chicago Design Museum

Chicago Humanities Festival

Teddy Cruz

Susannah Drake

Sarah Dunn & Martin Felsen (Urban Lab)

Elmhurst Art Museum

Experimental Sound Studio

Didier Faustino

Jeanne Gang

Kersten Geers

Chris Grimley & Mark Pasnik

Dianne Harris

Stewart Hicks & Allison Newmeyer (Design with Company)

Li Hu

Florian Idenburg (SO-IL)

Camille Lacadée & François Roche  (New-Territories/[elf/b^t/c])

Jimenez Lai (Bureau Spectacular)

Sean Lally (WEATHERS)

Armin Linke

MAS Context

Michael Meredith & Hilary Sample (MOS)

Museum of Contemporary Photography

National Trust for Historic Preservation–The Farnsworth House

Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society

Pedro Reyes

Bryony Roberts

Marcos Sanchez & Mark Wasiuta

David Schalliol

Lola Sheppard & Mason White (Lateral Office)

Deane Simpson

Marcelo Spina & Georgina Huljich (P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S)

Stanley Tigerman

Video Game Art Gallery

James Wines

Deadline: November 15, 2015

The Carter Manny Award supports dissertation research and writing by promising scholars whose projects have architecture as their primary concern and focus and have the potential to shape contemporary discourse about architecture and impact the field. Projects may be drawn from the various fields of inquiry supported by the Graham Foundation: architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; the visual arts; and other related fields. The award assists students enrolled in graduate programs in architecture, art history, the fine arts, humanities, and the social sciences working on architecture topics.

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2016 Carter Manny Award now through November 15, 2015. Students must be nominated by their department to apply for the Carter Manny Award. The award is open to students officially enrolled in schools in the U.S. and Canada, regardless of citizenship.

For the award guidelines, eligibility information, and application, click here.