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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.
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 USD 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; and New York)
Traces of Ecstasy
Giovanni Bellotti, Alessandra Covini, and Adelita Husni-Bey (New York; and Rotterdam, Netherlands)
La Casa Tappeto
Radhi Ben Hadid, Meriem Chabani, and John Edom (Paris)
Muqarnas—Sacred Grounds
Gabriel Cira, James Heard, and Julian Phillips (Boston, Massachusetts)
Stull & Lee: Black Architecture Vision for an Infrastructural City
J. Yolande Daniels (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Black City Astrolabe
Felecia Davis (State College, Pennsylvania)
TEXTURAL THRESHOLD HAIR SALON: Dreadlock
Megan Echols and Dana McKinney (Miami and Washington, DC)
Black—Still
N H D M: Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon (New York)
Migrating Futures
Chandra M. Laborde (San Francisco)
Transecological (Re)Imaginations in the Tenderloin
Thandi Loewenson (London)
The Uhuru Catalogues
Andrea Molina Cuadro (New York)
Geo-Fantasies: A Space Race on Planet Earth
Marco Piscitelli (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
Rust on a Razor Blade: Mickey Muennig in Big Sur, 1970–2000
Tivon Rice (Seattle, Washington)
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 and New York)
Design Emergency
Becky Beamer and Jori Erdman (Charlottesville, Virginia and Oslo, Norway)
Witness: Design of the Tougaloo Center for Racial Justice and Equity
Joseph Bedford (Blacksburg, Virginia)
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)
I Believe in the Things You Cannot See
Ana Miljački (Boston)
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, Colorado and New York)
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)
From Method to Style: “Elements of Spatial Composition” and Architectural Pedagogy after Vkhutemas
Kofi Boone and M. Elen Deming (Durham and Raleigh, North Carolina)
Empty Pedestals: Narratives on History, Race and Public Design
Craig Buckley (New York)
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)
How to Build with Time? Learning from Bimanagar, Ahmedabad, India
Alexander Eisenschmidt (Chicago)
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)
From the Mountain to the Sea: Architectural Excursions in the Lebanese Landscape and Beyond
Yun Fu (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground
Arnika Fuhrmann (Ithaca, New York)
In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City
Anna Goodman (Portland, Oregon)
Citizen Architects: How Hands-on Building in Architectural Education Shaped a Nation
Elisavet Hasa (London)
Building Solidarity Architectures: Social Movements, Welfare Crisis and State Abandonment
Lydia Kallipoliti and Areti Markopoulou (Barcelona, Spain and New York)
EDIBLE; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism
John Keenen (New York)
Tony Smith Architecture Catalogue Raisonné
Gili Merin (Vienna, Austria)
Analogous Jerusalem
Faiza Moatasim (Los Angeles)
Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad
Léa Namer (Paris)
Chacarita Moderna: The Brutalist Necropolis of Buenos Aires by the Architect Itala Fulvia Villa
Anjulie Rao (Chicago)
Weathered, Season 2
Judith Raum (Berlin)
Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió (San Diego, California)
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)
Los Angeles Water School
Stathis G. Yeros (Gainesville, Florida)
Queering Urbanism: Architecture, Embodiment, and Queer Citizenship
Claire Zimmerman (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
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)
Prairie School
Carmen Amengual (Los Angeles)
A Non-Coincidental Mirror
Tutin Aryanti (Bandung, Indonesia)
Women’s Prayer Space: The Politics of Sex Segregation
Minne Atairu (New York)
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)
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, Massachusetts)
Elephant in the Room, and Other Fables
Curry J. Hackett (Boston, Massachusetts)
Drylongso: Imaging the Black Landscape
Suzy Halajian and Noah Simblist (Los Angeles and Richmond, Virginia)
Cracks in the Edifice: Niemeyer’s Futuristic Fairground in Tripoli
Nusaibah Khan (Portland, Oregon)
Productive Landscapes in Srinagar—A Case of Floating Gardens and Hanji Settlements of Dal Lake
Sharon Leung (Los Angeles)
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)
Civic Gaze
Deepa Ramaswamy (Houston)
Reclaimed Lands: The Ecological Legacies of Colonial Bombay’s Coasts
Alex Strada (New York)
House of D
Feifei Zhou (New York)
Between Land and Water—Architecture of Porosity
Upcoming grant application deadlines
2023 grants to individuals: application available July 15, due September 15, 2023. 2023 Carter Manny award: application available September 15, due November 15, 2023.
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.
*Image above: From the 2023 grant to Megan Echols and Dana McKinney for the exhibition Black—Still, opening at Craft Contemporary and Materials & Applications, Los Angeles on May 28.
