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The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 71 new grants to individuals exploring innovative design ideas that expand contemporary understanding of architecture. Selected from an open call that resulted in nearly 700 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 113 individuals, including established and emerging architects, artists, curators, filmmakers, historians, and photographers, based in cities such as Ahmedabad, India; Milan, Italy; Mexico City, Mexico; Durban, South Africa; and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The new grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 65 years. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than 41 million dollars in direct support to over 4,800 projects by individuals and organizations.
Learn more about each project by clicking the links below to explore a dedicated project page on our website.
Exhibitions and public programs
Juliana Rowen Barton, Michelle Millar Fisher, Zoë Greggs, Gabriella Nelson, and Amber Winick (Croton on Hudson, NY; Edgartown, MA; Philadelphia; and Providence, RI)
Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births
Marissa Lee Benedict, Daniel de Paula, and David Rueter (Amsterdam and Ann Arbor, MI)
deposition
Parsons & Charlesworth: Jessica Charlesworth and Tim Parsons (Chicago)
Catalog for the Post-Human
Stanley Cho, Elisa Iturbe, and Alican Taylan (New York)
Confronting Carbon Form
Gabriel Cira and James Heard (Cambridge and Somerville, MA)
The Architects Collaborative 1945–1995: Tracing a Diffuse Architectural Authorship
Felecia Davis, Marcella Del Signore, Sheryl Tucker de Vazquez, and William D. Williams (Cincinnati, OH; Houston; New York; and University Park, PA)
Hair Salon: Translating Black Hair Practices for Architecture Using Computational Methods
Kevin Hernandez-Rosa, Nicholas Serrambana, Arien Wilkerson, and Marisa Williamson (New Haven, CT; Philadelphia; and South Orange, NJ)
Vault
Sean Lally (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Shaped Touches
Farzin Lotfi-Jam and Mark Wasiuta (New York)
The Machine at the Heart of Man: Doxiadis’ Informational Modernism
Vernelle A. A. Noel (Gainesville, FL)
Design and Making in the Trinidad Carnival: Histories, Re-imaginations, and Speculations of Computational Design Futures
Constance Owl (Palo Alto, CA)
ᎠᏂᎩᏚᏩᎩ / Anigaduwagi / People of Creator’s Land
Elisa Silva (Caracas, Venezuela)
Nothing Out of the Ordinary: a space for the arts, celebration, acknowledgement and sancocho in the barrio La Palomera
Kelly Walters (New York)
With a Cast of Colored Stars
Film, video, and new media projects
Can Altay (Istanbul)
Ahali Conversations with Can Altay: A Podcast on the Future of Cultural Production and its Spaces (Season 3)
Adil Dalbai and Livingstone Mukasa (Berlin and Rensselaer, NY)
Africa Architecture Network
Russel Hlongwane and Sumayya Vally (Durban and Pretoria, South Africa)
Amaxiwa | Embodied Archives
Brockett Horne, Briar Levit, and Louise Sandhaus (Baltimore; Ojai, CA; and Portland, OR)
The People’s Graphic Design Archive
David Huber (Urbana, IL)
Entangled: Shorelines
John Lin (Hong Kong)
Renovation Toolbox: A guided tour of innovative houses by self-builders in rural China
Sharon Lockhart (Los Angeles)
Baumettes
Jamila Moore Pewu (Fullerton, CA)
Art of the Matter
Regner Ramos and Kleanthis Kyriakou (London and San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Coloso: A Factory of Queer, Digital Monuments for Puerto Rico
Fred Scharmen (Baltimore)
How to Make and Un-Make a World; an Incomplete Catalog of Questions and Answers
Publications
Noam Andrews (Ghent, Belgium)
The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century
Pierre Bélanger and Pablo Escudero (Cambridge, MA and Quito, Ecuador)
The Quino Treaty: Renewing Territorial Relations with the Cinchona Plant at the Center of the World by Decolonizing Quinine and the Global Discourse on Conservation
Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Mark El-khatib, and Bushra Mohamed (London)
The Course of Empire: A Compound House Typology
Stefano Boeri Architetti: Stefano Boeri, Fiamma Invernizzi, Maria Lucrezia de Marco, Simone Marchetti, Sofia Paoli, Maria Chiara Pastore, Luis Pimentel, and Livia Shamir (Milan)
Green Obsession
Susan Buck-Morss, Kevin McCaughey, and Adam Michaels (Ithaca and Ridgewood, NY; Los Angeles)
Architectures of Thought: Imagining Philosophy / Not Philosophizing Images
Susana Caló and Godofredo Pereira (London)
CERFI: Militant Analysis, Institutional Programming and Collective Equipment
Anthony Carfello (Los Angeles)
La città capitalista (The Capitalist City)
Katherine L. Carroll (Delmar, NY)
Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician
Peter H. Christensen (Rochester, NY)
Materialized: German Steel in Global Ecology
Patricio del Real (Cambridge, MA)
Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art
Gareth Doherty (Cambridge, MA)
Landscape Fieldwork
Giulia Foscari (Hamburg, Germany)
Antarctic Resolution
Pedro Gadanho (Lisbon)
Climax Change! Architecture’s Paradigm Shift After the Ecological Crisis
Kersten Geers, Stefano Graziani, Joris Kritis, and Jelena Pancevac (Brussels; Paris; and Trieste, Italy)
The Urban Fact: A Reference Book on Aldo Rossi
Vanessa Grossman (Delft, the Netherlands)
A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France
Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi Segal (Brookline, MA and New York)
What is Ours: Art and Architecture Towards Mutualism
Tim Johnson (Marfa, TX)
Al Rio/To the River
Steffen Kunkel (Wiesthal, Germany)
Gottfried Böhm and the Pilgrimage Church Mary, Queen of Peace
Paulo Moreira (Porto, Portugal)
Critical Neighborhoods: The Architecture of Contested Communities
Adriana Salazar (Mexico City)
Water Spells
David Schalliol (Minneapolis, MN)
Social Landscapes
Mindy Seu (New York)
Cyberfeminism Catalog
Pier Paolo Tamburelli (Milan)
On Bramante: Forty-three Theses
Marc Treib (Berkeley, CA)
The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design
Research projects
Anahi Alviso-Marino and Neïl Beloufa (Paris)
Monument Stories: Cities of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula through Monument Biographies
Adjoa Armah (Cape Coast, Ghana and London)
In our language the word for the sea means “the spirit that returns”
Shantel Blakely (St. Louis, MO)
Charles E. Fleming, Architect
Jerald “Coop” Cooper (Cincinnati, OH)
Architectures of Abolition
Felicia Francine Dean (Knoxville, TN)
Perception of Misconceptions: Intersecting Stone and Fabric Material Identities
Farhana Ferdous (Washington, DC)
The (pathogenic)-CITY: A Segregated Landscape of Urbanization, Urbanicity, and Wellbeing in American Landscape (the 1900s to present)
Gabriel Fuentes (Union, NJ)
White Gold / Black Energy: Architecture, Sugar, and Oil During Revolutionary Cuba’s Gray Period
Meredith J. Gaglio (Baton Rouge, LA)
Life Arks: Science, Spirituality, and Survival in the Work of the New Alchemy Institute
James Graham (Alameda, CA)
The Household Modernism of Paulette Bernège
Sara Jacobs (Vancouver)
Landscapes of Racial Formation: Warren Manning in Atlanta, Georgia and Birmingham, Alabama
Ishita Jain and Ankita Trivedi (Ahmedabad and Sonipat, India)
Sites of Indie-Futurisms: Traditional Board Games of India
Theodore S. Jojola and Lynn Paxson (Albuquerque, NM and Ames, IA)
Contemporary Indigenous Architecture–The Pueblo Worldview
Ladi’Sasha Jones (New York)
Black Interior Spatial Thought
Elizabeth M. Keslacy (Oxford, OH)
Concrete Leisure: Design and Public Space in the Wake of Urban Renewal
Wanda Katja Liebermann (Oakland Park, FL)
Architecture’s Problem with Disability
Thandi Loewenson (London)
Lumumba in Space: African Space Programs and the Project of Liberation
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury (Wellington, New Zealand)
Veblen’s Chicago: The Urban Origins of the Leisure Class
Joe Namy (London)
Songs for a Set
Enrique Ramirez (New York)
Lines of Least Resistance: Architecture, Aeronautics, and Other Airs of Modernity
T. F. Tierney (Berkeley, CA)
Racializing Risk: The History of Ladera Housing Cooperative
Nick Tobier (Ann Arbor, MI)
Small(er) Building Types
Amanda Russhell Wallace (New London, CT)
The East Texas Oilfield as an Architecture of Memento Mori
Charisse Pearlina Weston (New York)
(Riot) Through: The Fold, The Shatter
Kiyan Williams (New York)
Unearthing: Toward a Black Feminist Ecology in Contemporary Earth Art
Upcoming grant application deadlines
2022 grants to individuals: application available July 15, due September 15, 2021
2022 Carter Manny award: application available September 15, due November 15, 2021
For more information about the Graham Foundation’s grants, and to learn if your project is eligible for funding, visit grahamfoundation.org.
About the Graham Foundation
Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. For updates on our programming and grantees, join our mailing list.
