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The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the award of 56 new grants to individuals. Selected from nearly 600 submissions made at the Foundation’s annual application deadline in September 2023, the funded projects include publications, research, exhibitions, films, site-specific installations, and digital initiatives that expand contemporary ideas of architecture through innovative rigorous interdisciplinary work on design and the built environment. The projects are led by 84 individuals that include established and emerging architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, historians, and writers, based in cities such as Beijing; Bogotá; Cairo; Delhi; Houston; Kampala; London; Los Angeles; Melbourne; New York; Paris; Washington, DC; and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based.
The 2024 grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 68 years. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than 44 million dollars in direct support to over 5,100 projects by individuals and organizations around the world. Learn more about each project by clicking the links below.
Exhibitions
Carmen Amengual (Los Angeles)
A Non-Coincidental Mirror
Germane Barnes (Miami)
Columnar Disorder
Gustavo Caboco, Brunno Douat, Ana María Durán Calisto, Manuela Omari Ima, and Romelia Angelica Papue Mayancha (Brasilia, Brazil; New Haven, CT; New York; Shell Mera, Ecuador; Tepapade, Ecuador)
Dien Dien: To Feel the Other and Weave a Territory
Dream The Combine: Tom Carruthers and Jennifer Newsom (Ithaca, NY)
Pyramidion
Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Mengfan Wang, and Chen Zhan (Beijing and London)
Ripple Ripple Rippling
Assaf Evron (Chicago)
Collage for the Edith Farnsworth House
Dahlia Nduom (Washington, DC)
Tourism, Tropicalization, and the Architectural Image
Albert Pope and Brittany Utting (Houston)
The Sixth Sphere
Juana Salcedo (Austin, TX)
Jaguar Lens
Lobna Sana (Be’er-Sheva City, Israel)
Recognized
Craig L. Wilkins (Detroit, MI)
if history were told as stories it'd never be forgotten...
Film, Video, and New Media Projects
Mark Bennett, Geronimo Inutiq, and Rafico Ruiz (Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto)
Ikiaqqijjut [Travelling through Layers]: A Field Guide to Infrastructural Literacy and Northern Connection
Molly M Brandt and Kevin Weil (Chicago and New York)
Inventory of a Building’s Reuse and a Landscape’s Redesign
Samira Daneshvar and Adam Longenbach (Cambridge, MA)
Shahr-e Ghesseh [City of Tales]
Mariam Ghani (New York)
An Incident
Jess Myers (New York and Syracuse, NY)
Here There Be Dragons, Season Four: Odes[s]a
Julia Phillips (Berlin and Chicago)
Pentasomnia
Fred Schmidt-Arenales (New York)
IT IS A GOOD PROJECT AND SHOULD BE BUILT
Elizabeth M. Webb (Atlanta)
Artificial Horizon
Publications
Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat (Haifa, Israel)
A Territory in Conflict: Eras of Development and Urban Architecture in Gaza
Menna Agha and Sara Salem (London and Ottawa, Canada)
Disembodied Territories
Caitlin Blanchfield, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik, and Ophelia Rivas (Ali Jegk, Tohono O'odham Nation; Ithaca, NY; and Vienna, Austria)
Significant Impact: Contesting Surveillance Infrastructure on Indigenous Lands
Simon Boudvin (Paris)
Commune, Communism, Commons: A Walk Through Ivry-sur-Seine
Civil Architecture: Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Ismail Karimi (Kuwait City, Kuwait and Muharraq, Bahrain)
Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History
Aaron Cayer (Los Angeles)
From A to AECOM: Architecture Practice at the Twilight of Professional Tradition
Michelle JaJa Chang (Boston, MA)
Also Known As
Beatriz Colomina with Nick Axel and Guillermo S. Arsuaga (Amsterdam, London, and New York)
Sick Architecture
Eva Díaz (New York)
After Spaceship Earth
Every Ocean Hughes (New York)
Every Ocean Hughes: Alive Side
Suzanne Lettieri and Anya Sirota (Ann Arbor, MI and Ithaca, NY)
Junior Architects
Neil Levine (Cambridge, MA)
Architecture for Reading in Public: Henri Labrouste's Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
Jeremy Lybarger (Chicago)
Midnight Tremor: The Life and Art of Roger Brown
Anežka Minaříková (New York)
Clara Istlerová, A Life Among Letters
Elizabeth J. Petcu (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation
Ari Seligmann (Melbourne, Australia)
The Photographic Construction of Japanese Architecture
Angelika Stepken (Berlin)
Life after Architecture: The Writings of Gian Piero Frassinelli (Superstudio) 1966–2022
Stefaan Vervoort (Ghent, Belgium)
Marcel Broodthaers—The Architect is Absent
Ines Weizman (London)
Joséphine Baker and the Colonial Modern
Amber N. Wiley (Philadelphia)
Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation's Capital
Sara Zewde (New York)
Finding Frederick Law Olmsted in Cotton's Kingdom
Research Projects
Verda Alexander and Maya Bird-Murphy (Chicago and San Francisco)
Envisioning New Futures through Alternative Practice
Pedro Aparicio-Llorente (Bogotá, Colombia)
Payao: Trans-Pacific Sardine House
Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns (Syracuse, NY and Melbourne, Australia)
Women Architects and Global Solidarity Across the Cold War Divide: The International Union of Women Architects, 1963–1993
Alice Bucknell (Los Angeles)
Staring at the Sun
Alice Buoli, Popi Iacovou, and Socrates Stratis (Milan and Nicosia, Cyprus)
Everyday Commoning: Living Diaries for Nicosia's Transnational Spaces
Arthur J. Clement and Emily G. Makaš (Atlanta and Charlotte, NC)
Philip G. Freelon: An Architect of Relationships and Stories
Yasmine El Rashidi (Cairo, Egypt)
Monograph: Ali Labib Gabr and the Decolonization of Architecture
Christine Gaspar and Liz Ogbu (New York and Oakland, CA)
Engaging Grief and Healing in Design
Annie Howard (Chicago)
From Diva's to the Pyramid
Elise Misao Hunchuck (Berlin)
An Incomplete Atlas of Stones
Yakin Kinger (Nashik, India)
Contesting Cultural Territory: Rereading Colonial Transformations of India’s Baghs
Sydney Rose Maubert (Miami)
Queen of the Swamp: The Saltwater Railroad
Shivangi Mariam Raj (Delhi and Paris)
Shadow Thresholds: Architectures of Ruin in India
Hylozoic/Desires: Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser (Delhi and London)
The Hedge of Halomancy
Anthony K. Wako (Kampala, Uganda)
Tracing the Footprints of Entangled Narratives
James Wines, Suzan Wines, and Phillip Denny (New York)
What Else Could It Mean? Writings and Drawings by James Wines, 1972–2022
Upcoming grant application deadlines
2025 grants to individuals: application available July 15, due September 15, 2024. 2025 Carter Manny award: application available September 15, due November 15, 2024.
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.
