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The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the award of 42 new grants to individuals. Selected from nearly 600 submissions made at the Foundation’s annual application deadline in September 2024, the funded projects include exhibitions, films, publications, research, site-specific installations, and digital initiatives that contribute new interdisciplinary ideas on architecture and design to publics around the world. The projects are led by 64 individuals that include established and emerging architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, historians, scholars, and writers, from locations such as Athens; Berlin; Edinburgh; Lagos; Mexico City; Paris; Quito, Ecuador; London; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; São Paulo; Toronto; and Warri, Nigeria and from cities across the United States including Charlottesville, Virginia; Columbus, Ohio; Honolulu, Hawaii; Hopewell, New Jersey; Houston; Knoxville, Tennessee; Lexington, Kentucky; Los Angeles; Miami; New Orleans; New York; and Chicago where the Graham Foundation is based.
The 2025 grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 69 years. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than 45 million dollars in direct support to over 5,200 projects by individuals and organizations.
Learn more about each project by visiting the links below:
Exhibitions
Tülay Atak (New York)
Making Energy Visible
Erin Besler (Hopewell, New Jersey)
Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts (Part 2)
Carlos H. Blanco (New York)
Casas de Cartón—Rural Memories of the Dry Corridor
Jason Campbell (Chicago)
The Society for Care and Maintenance
Maria Fernanda Cartagena, Paula Izurieta, Eduardo Kohn, Fabiano Kueva, Gabriel Moyer-Perez, and Manari Ushigua (Montreal; New York; and Quito, Ecuador)
Animismo Animado
Thuto Durkac-Somo, Jonathan González, and Mario Gooden (New York)
Black Holes Ain't So Black
Richard-Allen Foster, Benjamin Pollak, and John L. Sanders (Knoxville, Tennessee)
The Seeds of Regionalism in the South: An Investigation into the Work of Alfred Clauss and Jane West Clauss in Knoxville, Tennessee
Departamento del Distrito: Nathan Friedman and Francisco Quiñones (Mexico City)
Light Gauge
Films
Alice Arnold and Sharon Zukin (New York)
SoHo in Flux: Art, Real Estate and the Housing Crisis
Malcolm St-Pierre (Montreal)
Mr. Adams
Publications
Olivia Abrahão and Carla Juaçaba (Paris and São Paulo)
Infinite Because It Mirrors [Infinito Porque Espelha]
KJ Abudu (New York)
Traces of Ecstasy: Modelling Decolonial, Queer, and Anarchic African futures for the 21st Century
Richard Anderson (Edinburgh)
El Lissitzky: Writings on Architecture and the City
Shantel Blakely (Houston)
Appartamento Aperto: At Home with Marco Zanuso
Thomas J. Campanella (Ithaca, New York)
Designing the American Century: The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915–1965
Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley (New York)
We the Bacteria: Notes Towards Biotic Architecture
Sheila Crane (Charlottesville, Virginia)
The City in the Shadow of the Shantytown: A Critical History of the Bidonville
Victor Deupi (Miami)
Crossroads of the Americas: A History of Cuban Architecture
Kevin Harrington and Michelangelo Sabatino (Chicago)
Building, Breaking, Rebuilding: The Illinois Institute of Technology Campus and Chicago’s South Side
Nifemi Marcus-Bello (Lagos, Nigeria)
Oríkì Design Series
Mary Miss (New York)
City as Living Laboratory: Artists + Scientists + Communities Creating a Resilient and Equitable Public Realm
Farshid Moussavi (London)
Architecture as an Instruction-Based Art
Mohamad Nahleh (Columbus, Ohio)
Nightrise
Ilaria Palmieri and Georgina Pantazopoulou (Amsterdam and Athens)
They asked me to design a house, I asked them to design a home
Łukasz Stanek (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives
Camilo José Vergara (New York)
Tracking Newark, N.J., 1977–2024
James Wines, Suzan Wines, and Phillip Denny (New York)
What Else Could It Mean? Drawings and Writings by James Wines/SITE
Research Projects
Anna Nnenna Abengowe (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Africaland! Surface of Massive Change
Farah Alkhoury and Ameneh Solati (New York and Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Against the Denial of Wetland: Environmental Stewardship in the Hawizeh Marsh
Rebecca Choi (New Orleans)
Black Architectures: Race, Pedagogy, and Practice, 1957–68
Sean Connelly (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Building Native Liberation: Advancing Architecture and Geography with King Kalākaua, 1874–1887
Jareh Das (Warri, Nigeria)
Niger Consultants and Modern Architecture in Nigeria
La Liga de la Madera: Karina Flores, Mecky Reuss, Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo, and Jachen Schleich (Mexico City)
A Forest, a Tree, a Log, a Building
Kandis Friesen (Berlin)
Karaganda, Karaganda
Noah Gotlib (Toronto)
Crumbling Land
Leen Katrib (Lexington, Kentucky)
From Denver to Chicago: Racial Geographies and the Enduring Underside of Miesian Modernism
Hamed Khosravi (London)
The Architecture of Dreams: The Work of Rita Wolff
Hojung Kim and Ha Nguyen (Hanoi, Vietnam and Knoxville, Tennessee)
Dichotomy of Heritage and Industrialization in Mang Thít’s Sustainable Development
Ayala Levin (Los Angeles)
How to be Rural? American Planning in Africa and the Global Project of Modern Rurality, 1960s–1970s
Noritaka Minami (Chicago)
Aesthetics of Disappearance: Concrete Pillboxes of Hokkaido
Olga Touloumi (Tivoli, NY)
Building Worlds: A Feminist Biography of Postwar Architecture
Padmini Unni (New York)
Dams as Temples: The Spatial Politics of Infrastructure Sacralization in India
Upcoming grant application deadlines
2026 grants to individuals: application available July 15, due September 15, 2025. 2026 Carter Manny award: application available September 15, due November 15, 2025.
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.
