2006 G R A N T S TO I N D I V I D U A L S
In 2006, the Graham Foundation awarded 107 grants, totaling $1,026,490. Additional support for architectural research in the amount of $47,500 was offered through the Carter Manny Award Competition.
12 DUFFIELD: THE GLEN SEATOR FOUNDATION
Publication: Glen Seator: Making Things Moving Places
$10,000
JOHN ALEXANDER
Research: Borromeo's Early Architectural Patronage
$4,250
SEAN S. ANDERSON
Research: The Fourth Shore: Modern Italian Architecture in Libya
$10,000
ARCHIMEDIA WORKSHOP NFP
Media: "Daniel Hudson Burnham Documentary Film"
$25,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Research: Building Ideals: Practical Utopias from New Towns to New Urbanism
$10,000
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
Media: Ryerson and Burnham Libraries Architecture Collections Presentation on the Web
$25,000
ARTISTS SPACE
Exhibition: Cecil Balmond + the Advanced Geometry Unit (AGU): Not Knots
$10,000
AUSTIN FILM SOCIETY
Media: "Location, Location"
$5,000
BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
Research: SmartScrap Digital Design Fabrication System: Digitally Cataloging Building Industry Waste for Reuse through Parametric Modeling
$9,500
DAVID BENJAMIN & SOO-IN YANG
Research: Living Room: A New Responsive Kinetic Structure with Material Actuators by the Living Architecture Lab
$6,000
SUSAN BENJAMIN & STUART COHEN
Research: Great Houses of Chicago, 1890-1940
$5,000
BERKELEY ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE ASSOCIATION
Media: Beautiful Simplicity: Arts and Crafts Architecture in Northern California
$12,000
MICHAEL B. CALDWELL
Publication: Strange Details
$5,400
AZIZA CHAOUNI
Publication: Detailing Moroccan Modernism: The Architecture of Jean-Francois Zevaco
$13,700
CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION
Exhibition: "Open: New Designs for Public Space"
$10,000
CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION
Public Programming: Association of Architecture Organizations
$15,000
CHICAGO FILMMAKERS/CAREY LUNDIN
Media: Jens Jensen Harmonious World
$10,000
CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM
Media: "Louis Sullivan at 150" Celebration Web site
$12,000
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
Public Programming: Peace and War: Facing Human Conflict
$10,000
CHICAGO PUBLIC ART GROUP
Public Programming: Forty Years of Place-Making Public Art: From Picasso to Peoples Art
$10,000
CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK
Exhibition: "Ineffable: Math, Mythos, and Meaning in Contemporary Architecture"
$5,000
CITY OF CHICAGO
Research: Driehaus-Graham Fellowship for Civic Service
$30,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Journal: Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation History, Theory and Criticism
$10,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Exhibition: Nancy Holt - Sightlines
$7,500
MARK COTTLE
Research: Chromotopia: Essays on Color in Modern and Contemporary Architecture
$5,500
ROBERTA DEGNORE
Media: The Sense of Home: Landmark Work of Leanne Rivlin
$15,000
DRAWING CENTER, INC.
Exhibition: Yona Friedman
$5,000
CLIFTON ELLIS & REBECCA GINSBURG
Publication: Slave Spaces: Landscapes of North American Slavery
$9,000
DANIELA FABRICIUS
Publication: Informal Cities: The Favelas of Brazil
$7,000
GAIL FENSKE
Publication: The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern
$6,000
FRESNO METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Exhibition: Buildings, Houses, and Living Units: An Investigation of Physical and Social Space
$15,000
ANTHONY GERBINO, MARCO PANZA, & MARIO CARPO
Lecture/Symposium: "Geometrical Objects: Architectural Practice and the Mathematical Sciences, 1400-1800"
$6,000
MARWAN GHANDOUR
Research: Spatial Representation and the Transformation of the Landscape
$5,000
DALE ALLEN GYURE
Publication: The Chicago Schoolhouse, 1856-2006: High School Architecture and Educational
$7,500
HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC.
Exhibition: "John Lautner: Master of Space"a
$15,000
JERILOU HAMMETT & KINGSLEY HAMMETT
Publication: Contributing Writers Fund
$15,000
LAURA HARRISON
Media: "ANT"
$7,500
WILBERT R. HASBROUCK
Research: Dwight Heald Perkins and the Search for an American Architecture
$5,000
HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS
Exhibition: Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff
$15,000
HOUSTON MOD
Exhibition: "Beauty, Grace and Poise: The Houses of Harwood Taylor, 1955-1960"
$5,000
INTREPID SEA, AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM
Exhibition: "Naval Architectural Archaeology: A Creative Photographic Documentation of the USS Intrepid"
$8,000
ALISON ISENBERG
Research: Second-Hand Cities: Dynamic Renewal at the Margins of the Modern Metropolis
$10,000
SANDY ISENSTADT & KISHWAR RIZVI
Publication: Modernism and the Middle East: Politics of the Built Environment
$10,000
ISLAND PRESS
Publication: The Designers' Atlas of Sustainability
$10,000
JANE KAMENSKY
Research: The Exchange Artist: A Story of Paper, Bricks, and Ash in Early National America
$5,000
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
Research: The Genealogy of Cities
$10,000
BECHIR KENZARI
Publication: Architecture and Violence
$10,000
RICHARD KNIGHT
Publication: Saarinen’s Quest: The Memoir of a Minion
$14,800
BRANKO KOLAREVIC
Research: Surface Effects: Ornament in Contemporary Architecture
$2,500
SANFORD KWINTER
Publication: Far From Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture
$15,000
LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS
Media: Restoration Resources Guide
$15,000
LAXART
Exhibition: Florencia Pita: Alice (Algorithmic Landscape)
$15,000
DOMINIC LEONG, BRIAN PRICE, & JONATHAN LOTT
Publication: Paratheses: Current Trajectories in Architectural Research
$5,000
JENNIFER W. LEUNG
Research: Casus Belli: Architecture and Its Discontents
$3,500
PATSY PITTMAN LIGHT
Research: Trabajo Rustico: The Cement Art of Dionicio Rodriguez
$7,500
SARAH E. LORENZEN & DAVID HARTWELL
Media: "Documenting the Los Angeles River Project"
$10,000
LOST AND FOUND PRODUCTIONS
Media: "Greentowns U.S.A. - A New Deal"
$6,000
CHRISTOPHER MACDONALD & KEVIN ALTER
Publication: Judith Chafee: Unreconstructed Modern
$8,000
MAK CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Exhibition: The Gen(H)ome Project
$10,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Lecture/Symposium: Just Jerusalem: Visions for a Place of Peace
$20,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Publication: Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile
$12,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Lecture/Symposium: "Deus Ex Historia"
$11,400
STANLEY MATHEWS
Publication: From Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price
$9,100
SMILJA MILOVANOVIC-BERTRAM
Research: "Lessons from Rome: The Work of Thomas Phifer, Tod Williams and Paul Lewis"
$4,000
SUSAN MORGAN
Research: Esther McCoy: Eye on Modern Living
$6,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Exhibition: "Sustainable Architecture in Chicago"
$10,000
NORTH ATLANTIC RIM RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE
Research: Landscape: Form and Settlement
$10,000
THERESE POLETTI
Research: ZigZag: The Architecture of Timothy L. Pflueger
$10,000
PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW ORLEANS
Journal: Preservation in Print
$10,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Exhibition: "The Architecture of Little Magazines: 1961 to 1979"
$10,000
PROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACES, INC.
Research: A User Friendly Guide to Public Space Research
$5,000
CHAD GARRETT RANDL
Research: Revolutionary Architecture: A History of Buildings That Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot
$10,000
NINA RAPPAPORT
Research: Engineering Culture, Innovative Engineers and Collaboration
$10,000
RENAISSANCE SOCIETY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Exhibition: Katharina Grosse Exhibition
$15,000
RIVER DISTRICT ASSOCIATION
Research: The Architecture and History of the Rockford River District
$4,500
NASHEET RUMY
Research: The Voice of the Modern Bengali: Architect Muzharul Islam in Bangladesh
$5,340
MICHELANGELO SABATINO & DENISE BRATTON
Publication: Ordinary Things: Italian Modernism, Folk Art, and Vernacular Architecture (1900-1960)
$7,500
OREN SAFDIE
Related Arts: "Private Jokes, Public Spaces"
$5,000
ELIZABETH B. SMITH
Research: The Design and Construction of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
$10,000
MICHAEL SORKIN
Research: New York City (Steady) State: A Plan for the City of New York
$7,500
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE
Publication: 5 Year/25 Installations
$15,000
DARIUS A. SPIETH
Publication: Napoleon's Sorcerers: The Sophisians
$5,000
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Lecture/Symposium: 1. Intersections: Architecture Plus Journalism/Film/Theory/Culture
2. Albany Architects
$5,000
HADAS A. STEINER
Publication: Beyond Archigram: The Structure of Circulation
$8,500
KIM STRINGFELLOW
Publication: Jackrabbit Homestead: The Derelict Cabins of Twentynine Palms, California
$8,700
JOHN H. STUBBS
Research: Time Honored: A Global View of Architectural Conservation
$7,000
TERRY TATUM
Publication: Autobiography of Irving Pond
$5,000
TRINITY UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication: "Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime" by Kenneth I. Helphand
$6,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
Research: City Park System Valuation Project
$10,000
TULANE UNIVERSITY
Media: New Orleans Virtual Archive
$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Media: The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome: Printing and Collecting the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
$13,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
Media: 60 in ‘06: A History of Teaching in the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Architecture and the Arts
$5,800
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
Public Programming: A City at the Crossroads
$12,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Lecture/Symposium: Evasions of Power
$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Publication: Ethics and Aesthetics In Architecture and Art
$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON LIBRARIES
Media: The Roland Terry Architectural Drawing Collection Project
$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Publication: "Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts + Crafts to Modern Architecture" by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner
$5,000
CATHERINE VEIKOS
Publication: Intricacy Papers
$6,000
JAMES VENTURI, EDWARD MARRITZ, JONATHAN OPPENHEIM, & SIMON EGLETON
Media: "Learning from Bob and Denise"
$10,000
VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE FORUM
Journal: The Vernacular Architecture Forum's Twenty-fifth Anniversary Issue of "Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture: An Evaluation of the State of the Field and Directions for the Future"
$5,000
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Publication: Lost Communities of Virginia
$5,000
SASHA WATERS
Media: This American Gothic
$10,000
ROBERT WEDDLE
Research: The Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Emergence of the Architecte-Urbaniste, 1919-1939
$5,000
SAUNDRA WEDDLE
Research: Florentine Convent Architecture in Its Ritual Context During the Renaissance
$5,500
WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Exhibitions: Le Corbusier + Oubrerie: Towards a New Church
$15,000
WILLIAM STOUT PUBLISHERS
Publication: California Houses of Gordon Drake
$10,000
YALE UNIVERSITY
Publication: Philip Johnson and the Constancy of Change
$15,000