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The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 45 grants to organizations around the world. These projects include exhibitions, publications, digital initiatives, and other public presentations led by organizations based in cities such as Atlanta, London, Mexico City, New Orleans, Phoenix, Washington, Seattle, and Chicago where the Graham Foundation is based. Together, these organizations support the work of eminent and emerging 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 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
Arizona State University Art Museum (Tempe, AZ)
A Country is not a House / Ronald Rael + Virginia San Fratello
Center for Architecture (New York, NY)
Reset: Towards a New Commons
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art—Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture (New York, NY)
Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, 1920–1930
The Drawing Center (New York, NY)
A New Grammar of Ornament
Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, IL)
Houses of Tomorrow
High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA)
Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place
Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, United Kingdom)
Christopher Kulendran Thomas: Another World
Landmark Columbus Foundation (Columbus, IN)
New Middles: From Main Street To Megalopolis, What Is The Future Of The Middle City?: 2021 Exhibition, Exhibit Columbus
LAXART (Los Angeles, CA)
Nikita Gale
The Mosaic Rooms (London, UK)
Stateless Heritage
The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
Modern Architecture in South Asia: The Project of Decolonization (1947–1985)
National Organization of Minority Architects (Washington, DC)
SAY IT LOUD— The National Organization of Minority Architecture (NOMA) 50th Anniversary Exhibition
Proyector (Mexico City, Mexico)
Casa Manifiesto
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA)
Nature X Humanity: Oxman Architects
The University at Buffalo Art Galleries (Buffalo, NY)
Heather Hart: Afrotecture (Re)Collection
University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (Chicago, IL)
American Framing: US Pavilion, 17th International Venice Architecture Biennale
Film, video, and new media projects
Design Trust Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Chicago Design Database Network
LIGA–Space for Architecture (Mexico City, Mexico)
LIGA–Archivos
Public programs
Arizona State University—Indigenous Design Collaborative (Phoenix, AZ)
Indigenous ways of being, knowing, doing and connecting in architecture, 2021–22 Lecture Series
Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL)
2021 Design Matters Conference
Harvard University—Graduate School of Design—African American Student Union (Cambridge, MA)
Black Matter: Celebrating Black Spatial Practices from the Magical to the Mundane, Black in Design Conference 2021
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, at the Schindler House (Los Angeles, CA)
Schindler House 1922–2022: an anthology of existences
Materials & Applications (Los Angeles, CA)
A Program of Complete Disordering
Publications
Anyone Corporation (New York, NY)
Log 50, 53, 54, 55
Architectural League of New York (New York, NY)
Cleaning Up?
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (Washington, DC)
JAE Fellows
The Black School (New Orleans, LA)
The Black Schoolhouse Manual
e-flux Architecture (New York, NY)
Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and the Media of Climate Change
Goldsmiths, University of London—Centre for Research Architecture (London, United Kingdom)
Research Architecture: Provocations, Practices, and Propositions
Lampo (Chicago, IL)
Lampo Folio
MAS Context (Chicago, IL)
Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio
Massachusetts Institute of Technology—School of Architecture and Planning (Cambridge, MA)
Thresholds 50: Before After
New York Review of Architecture (New York, NY)
The New York Review of Architecture, 2021
Northwest Architectural League (Seattle, WA)
ARCADE, Issue 39.1: Refraction
Places Journal (San Francisco, CA)
Repair Manual
Primary Information (New York, NY)
Dara Birnbaum’s Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On / Deal With)
Terreform (New York, NY)
South Side Stories
Urban Design Forum and the Architectural League of New York (New York, NY)
New City Critics
Yale University Press (New Haven, CT)
Gego: Weaving the Space In-Between. Art, Architecture, Design, and Craft at the Edge of Modernity
Student publications
Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston, TX)
PLAT 11.0
The School of Architecture (Scottsdale, AZ)
WASH Magazine
Texas Tech University—College of Architecture (Lubbock, TX)
CROP 09: Shed
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles, CA)
POOL, Issue No. 07
University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (Chicago, IL)
Fresh Meat 13: Isolated / Collective
University of Oklahoma—Gibbs College of Architecture (Norman, OK)
Telesis, Volume IV: Habitation and Volume V: Adaptive Practice
Upcoming grant application deadlines
2022 grants to individuals: 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.
