Graham Foundation announces $507,500 in grants to individuals working to advance the global discourse on architecture

2022-05-24T14:47:00-04:00

The annual round of Graham Foundation individual grants has been announced today in Chicago.

A total of $507,500 was given to 56 different projects, publications, exhibitions, films, and other intellectual endeavors from around the world that expand contemporary understandings of architecture, according to the Foundation.

This year’s projects offered a range of different voices utilizing a variety of new media. Catalina Mejía Moreno and Huda Tayob’s podcast “Architectures of the South: Bruising, Remembering, Repairing” was included along with publications like Lee Bey and Blair Kamin’s excellent new title Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago, and Marina Otero Verzier’s Evanescent Institutions: On the Politics of Temporary Architecture, among others.

Albert Brenchat-Aguilar’s exhibition “'As Hardly Found' in the Art of Tropical Architecture” for the Architectural Association in London was one of seven to receive recognition for their incisive an...

Graham Foundation announces the 2016 grantee projects

2016-05-12T13:54:00-04:00

It's award season at The Graham Foundation. Not long after revealing the Carter Manny doctorate student winners, the Foundation recently announced 59 projects that will receive the 2016 individual grants, totaling at $491,500. The grants fund an array of inventive projects that are based on original ideas within the realm of architecture, whether through film, site-specific exhibitions, performances, research, or publications. The competition is open to not just architects and designers, but also to visual artists, writers, filmmakers, curators and the like. Last year, the Foundation awarded $496,500 to 49 projects.

As usual, competition is fierce. 2016 reeled in 640 submissions representing 42 countries. A few familiar names from this year's winners include Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, Alexandra Lange, Beatriz Colomina, Point Supreme, and Allan Wexler — among other talented individuals and groups to keep an eye on in the field.

Check out the full list of grantees:

Quynh Vantu, Within the ...

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Graham Foundation announces $507,500 in grants to individuals working to advance the global discourse on architecture

Graham Foundation announces the 2016 grantee projects