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