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The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the award of 54 new grants to individuals. Selected from over 600 submissions made at the Foundation’s annual application deadline in September 2025, 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 86 individuals that include established and emerging architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, historians, scholars, and writers, from locations such as Beijing, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Ho Chi Minh City, Lagos, London, Mexico City, Prague, Rotterdam, Santo Domingo, Stockholm, and Zurich and from cities across the United States including Albuquerque, Atlanta, El Cerrito, Ithaca, Los Angeles, Lubbock, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, Princeton, Santa Fe, Somerville, Tucson, Tulsa, and Chicago where the Graham Foundation is based.
The 2026 grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 70 years. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than 46 million dollars in direct support to over 5,300 projects by individuals and organizations.
Exhibitions
Juan Carlos Espinosa, Carlos A. Segura, and Tania Tovar (San José, Costa Rica and Mexico City, Mexico)
Procesos Salvajes [Wild Processes]
Liz Gálvez (Berkeley, CA)
Earthen Comforts: Airing Earth
Gerard & Kelly: Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly (New York, NY and Paris, France)
Saints at a Disco
Suzy Halajian and Noah Simblist (Los Angeles, CA and Richmond, VA)
Cracks in the Edifice: The Fairground as Constellation
Nikolaus Hirsch and Jorge Otero-Pailos (Brussels, Belgium and New York, NY)
Becoming Monument
Drawing Architecture Studio: Yan Hu, Han Li, and Xintong Zhang (Beijing, China and New York, NY)
The Death and Life of an Apartment Building
Future Firm: Ann Lui and Craig Reschke (Chicago, IL)
The Stork's Stair
MOS: Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample (New York, NY)
A Stop
Sarah Oppenheimer (New York, NY and Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
N-06
Adriana Salazar Vélez (Mexico City, Mexico)
Weaving Nets for Water Worlds
David Taylor (Tucson, AZ)
COMPLEX
Norman Teague and Bernard Williams (Chicago, IL)
If Architecture Could Dance
Film & New Media Projects
Jay Cephas (Princeton, NJ)
Brick by Brick: Black Builders and the American Landscape
Crystal Kayiza (New York, NY)
The Gardeners
Adam James Smith (Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY)
Nighthawk
Publications
Jana Ndiaye Berankova (Prague, Czech Republic)
Karel Teige's Theory and Criticism: Reflections on Architecture, Art, and Society
Marta Bertazzoni, Elisa C. Cattaneo, Simona Cesana, and Ugo La Pietra (Brescia and Milan, Italy)
Ugo La Pietra. Interior/Exterior: The Unbalancing Experiments
Santiago Bonilla Hastings, Daniella Camarena, Lucas Hoops, and James O'Brien (Mexico City, Mexico)
Ediciones Eje, Issues 04 and 05
Lori A. Brown and Sarah Rafson (Cambridge, MA and Syracuse, NY)
Now What?! A Call for Advocacy, Activism, and Alliances in US Architecture
Arthur J. Clement and Emily G. Makaš (Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC)
Philip G. Freelon: Artist, Architect and Griot
Christina E. Crawford (Atlanta, GA)
Model Housing: Atlanta and the Foundation of American Public Housing Architecture
Ilaria Di Carlo and Daria Ricchi (London and Oxford, United Kingdom)
Sympoietic Architecture. Making With Lina Ghotmeh
Emilio Distretti, Sandi Hilal, and Alessandro Petti (Beit Sahour, Palestine; London, United Kingdom; and Stockholm, Sweden)
Entity of Decolonization. The Afterlives of Colonial–Fascist Architecture
Sonja Dümpelmann (Munich, Germany)
Knowing Trees: A History of Public Health
Yasmina El Chami (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Collective Colonialism: Missionary Competition and Architectural Contestation in Ottoman Lebanon
Matthew Gandy (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Urban refugia
María González Pendás (Ithaca, NY)
Holy Modern: Technocratic Fascism, Imperial Architectures, and Opus Dei
Christopher Hawthorne (New Haven, CT)
Punch List
Owen Hopkins, Kabage Karanja, Stella Mutegi, and Kathryn Yusoff (London and Newcastle, United Kingdom; and Nairobi, Kenya)
Architecture as an Earth practice
Lynne Horiuchi (El Cerrito, CA)
Dislocations: The Architecture, Planning and Building of Prison Cities for Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II
Kate Joyce (Santa Fe, NM)
Watt or Fall
Wilfried Kuehn, Simona Malvezzi, and Hubert Pelletier (Berlin, Germany and Montreal, Canada)
Designing the Insectarium
Ana María León (Somerville, MA)
Spatial Solidarities: Architecture and Resistance in 1970s Chile
Abigail Lucien (New York, NY)
Blood of the Earth
Alex Martínez Suárez (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
Concrete under the Sun: Brutalism in the Dominican Republic
Ciro Miguel (Zurich, Switzerland)
Brasília in 35mm: The New Capital through the Lens of Photojournalism, 1956–60
Guillaume Mojon and Veronika Spierenburg (Zurich, Switzerland)
Flora Ruchat-Roncati: The Mountain is the Wall
Leandro Villalba (Punta del Este, Uruguay)
The Architecture of Punta del Este 1948-1987
Research Projects
Olorunfemi Adewuyi (Lagos, Nigeria)
Remembering Memory: (In)formal Architectures of Resistance
Shane Ah-Siong (Mauritius and New York, NY)
Military Architectures of Displacement: Documenting Spatial Erasure in the Indian Ocean
Ibiye Camp (London, United Kingdom)
Layt De Kam
Re'al Christian (New York, NY)
A Study of Two Cities: Seville, Kansas City, and Social Aesthetics Across the African Atlantic
Adrienne Economos-Miller and M.C. Overholt (Milwaukee, WI and Philadelphia, PA)
Trans Reconstruction: Roberta Dickinson's Disobedient Archive
Alexander Garduño and Veronika Kudriashova (Mexico City, Mexico)
Assembling Wood in Mexico
Vanessa Grossman (Philadelphia, PA)
Between the Rust Belt and the Amazon: Extraction, Empire, and the Architecture of Vila Serra do Navio
José Ibarra (State College, PA)
Andean Ecologies, Cosmologies, and Fictions across Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador
Duc Le (London, United Kingdom)
Vietnamese Protean Modernism and the Architecture of Thuận Tiến Nguyễn
Le'Andra LeSeur (Tulsa, OK)
As the Basic Repository of Inextinguishable Desires
Jorge Francisco Liernur and Isabella Moretti (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Towards the Third Foundation of Buenos Aires: Facsimile Edition of Le Corbusier's Unpublished Plan (1929–1948)
Peter L'Official (New York, NY)
Invisible Plan: W. Joseph Black's Black Arts Movement
Alex Maymind, Lauren McQuistion, and David Turturo (Albuquerque, NM; Minneapolis, MN; and Lubbock, TX)
Skyline: Rereading an Architectural Tabloid
Jeremy Melvin (London, United Kingdom)
Jo Noero: South African Architecture, Politics and Spatial Justice
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (New York, NY)
The Proper Knowledge / The Proper Purpose
Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Future Tense – Queering the Third World Architecture
Upcoming grant application deadlines
2027 grants to individuals: application available July 15, due September 15, 2026.
2027 grants to organizations: application available January 15, due February 25, 2027. 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 the Graham Foundation mailing list.
