This year the Graham Foundation has announced 36 international organizations as recipients of this year's grants. According to the foundation, selected projects were chosen thanks to their ability to "respond to today's challenges, foster new connections across disciplines, and expand the field of architecture."

The annual Graham Foundation grant announcements provide individuals and organizations the opportunity to pursue and investigate an array of architectural topics. This year's grant recipients include editorial projects from publications and student-led journals like UCLA's Architecture and Urban Design student publication, POOL, and RICE University's student-led publication, PLAT, amongst others. Exhibitions, public programs, and media projects like the Architecture Lobby's JustDesign initiative, which Archinect has partnered on, were also selected as grant recipients. 

The foundation shares, "Together, these organizations support the work of eminent and emerging architects, artists, designers, critics, curators, scholars, and others, to explore new possibilities for the field and engage practitioners and publics worldwide. The new grantees join a global network of individuals and institutions that the Graham Foundation has supported through the award of more than $40.3 million for 4,730 grants over the past 64 years."

Below are the 2020 Grant Organization Recipients

EXHIBITIONS

• Acute Angles (Chicago, IL) - Space p11: Interior Landscape Residencies and Exhibitions, 2021
• Black Reconstruction Collective  (New York, NY) - Black Reconstruction Collective Manifesting Textile
• Chicago Architecture Biennial (Chicago, IL) - The Available City, 2021
• Cranbrook Art Museum  (Bloomfield Hills, MI) - Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock
• Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (Istanbul, Turkey) - Empathy Revisited: designs for more than one, 5th Istanbul Design Biennial
• The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) - Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America
• Prospect New Orleans  (New Orleans, LA) - Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow
• Queens Museum (New York, NY) - After the Plaster Foundation, or, "Where can we live?"
• The Renaissance Society  (Chicago, IL) - Haig Aivazian: All of the Light
• Serpentine Galleries  (London, United Kingdom) - Serpentine Pavilion 2020–21 designed by Counterspace
• Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, NY) - Building Cycles 2
• University of Chicago  (Chicago, IL) - YOU BE MY ALLY
• University of Pennsylvania—Institute of Contemporary Art  (Philadelphia, PA) - Jessica Vaughn: Our Primary Focus Is To Be Successful

FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS

• The Architecture Lobby (Shaker Heights, OH) - JustDesign
• Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Chicago, IL) - The Sky Was Different

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

• Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL) - 2020 Design Matters Conference: Radical Transformations
• Open Architecture Chicago & The Trust for Public Land  (Chicago, IL) - The Urban Hack

PUBLICATIONS

• Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal, Canada) - CCA Singles
• Concordia University Press (Montreal, Canada) - Clara Porset: Living Design
• Dalhousie Architectural Press  (Halifax, Canada) - Design Matters series: “Colonization Through Design" and "Situated Practices in Architecture and Politics”
• Fenester (Prague, Czech Republic) - Private Views: A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan
• The Funambulist  (Paris, France) - The Funambulist Correspondents
• Juan de la Cosa / John of the Thing  (Mexico City, Mexico) - Notebooks Series
• Minerva Projects  (Pine Plains, NY) - Project 4: Rey Akdogan
• NTU Centre for Contemporary Art  (Singapore) - World of Variation, 1970/2020 — Revisiting the i Press Series on the Human Environment
• Places Journal  (San Francisco, CA) - Critics-in-Residence in Architecture and Landscape Architecture
• The Richard H. Driehaus Museum  (Chicago, IL) - Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism
• The Royal College of Art  (London, United Kingdom) - Offsetted
• Society of Architectural Historians  (Chicago, IL) - Twenty Historically Contested Sites: Race and Ethnicity Shaping the Built Environment
• University of Utah—School of Architecture  (Salt Lake City, UT) - Dialectic VIII: Subverting – Unmaking Architecture?

STUDENT-LED PUBLICATIONS

• Harvard University—Graduate School of Design  (Cambridge, MA) - New Geographies 12: Common
• Paprika!  (New Haven, CT) - Paprika! Volume VI
• Rice University—School of Architecture  (Houston, TX) - PLAT 10.0: Behold
• University of California, Berkeley—Architecture Department (Berkeley, CA) - Room One Thousand: Issue 9
• University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design  (Los Angeles, CA) - POOL, Issue No. 06
• The University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts  (Chicago, IL) - Fresh Meat Journal Issue XII: Finding Agency in Uncertainty

The full set of winners is highlighted below and on the Graham Foundation website.