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 Horizon, 2015–16.

EXHIBITION

• Chelsea Culprit, Ben Foch, Jaffer Kolb, Ian Quate & Colleen Tuite
• François Dallegret
• Rear View (Projects): Jennifer L. Davis & Su-Ying Lee
• José Esparza Chong Cuy & Guillermo Ruiz De Teresa
• Adelita Husni-Bey Farzin
• Lotfi-Jam & V. Mitch McEwen
• Anders Ruhwald
• Quynh Vantu
• Fo (Folayemi) Wilson

François Dallegret, Palais Métro, 1967.

FILM/VIDEO/NEW MEDIA

• Sebastian Alvarez, Andrew Benz, Yoni Goldstein & Meredith Zielke
• Esther Figueroa & Mimi Sheller
• LoVid: Tali Hinkis & Kyle Lapidus
• Prudence Katze & William Lehman
• Andrea Lewis & Maura Lucking
• Rob Mazurek & Lee Anne Schmitt
• Masha Panteleyeva, Svetlana Strelnikova & Nazli Kaya
• Juan Alfonso Zapata

Adelita Husni-Bey, video still from Ard in the exhibition White Paper: The Land, Chapter I, 2014.

PUBLIC PROGRAM 

• Joshua Frankel
• Aaron Landsman, Mallory Catlett & Jim Findlay

PUBLICATION

• Michael Abel & Mina Hanna
• Mai Abu ElDahab & Benjamin Seror
• Zeynep Çelik Alexander
• Daniel A. Barber
• Pierre Bélanger & Nina-Marie Lister
• Michael Boyd
• Neil Brenner & Nikos Katsikis
• Maristella Casciato
• Benedict Clouette & Marlisa Wise
• Beatriz Colomina
• John Comazzi
• Dale Allen Gyure
• Leslie Hewitt & Bradford Young
• Sean Keller
• Léopold Lambert

Leslie Hewitt, in collaboration with Bradford Young, location shot of Untitled (Structures), 2012.

PUBLICATION (continued)

• Alexandra Lange
• Amanda Reeser Lawrence & Ana Miljački
• Jennifer Mack
• Julian Raxworthy
• Gabriel Ruiz-Larrea
• Martino Stierli
• James Trainor
• Lori Waxman
• Allan Wexler
• Mary N. Woods
• De Peter Yi
• Jon Yoder

Allan Wexler, "Hat Roof," 1994.

RESEARCH 

• Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: Tatiana Bilbao, Gabriela Álvarez, Nuria Benítez, & Alba Cortés
• Isabelle Doucet
• Charlie Hailey & Donovan Wylie
• Simon Herron & Mark Morris
• Heinrich Jaeger & Dan Peterman
• Parsa Khalili & Shima Mohajeri

Fo (Foyalemi) Wilson, cabin model for Eliza’s Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities, 2015.

RESEARCH (continued)

• Azadeh Mashayekhi
• Mariana Mogilevich
• Yasufumi Nakamori
• Point Supreme: Konstantinos Pantazis & Marianna Rentzou
• Damon Rich & Jae Shin
• Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
• Filip Tejchman

La Cambre students, "Projet d’aménagement de la vallée du Maelbeek," 1971–73.

Find out more about the 2016 grantee projects here.

Previously on Archinect:

Exclusive: Graham Foundation announces winners of 2015 Grants to Organizations