Atelier Masomi and Studio Chahar, "Hikma" Religious and Secular Complex in Dandaji, Niger, 2018. Courtesy Atelier Masomi. Photo: James Wang From the 2021 individual grant to Adil Dalbai and Livingstone Mukasa for "Africa Architecture Network"
The Graham Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2021 Grants to Individuals, awarding $585,000 to people exploring innovative design ideas that expand our contemporary understanding of architecture. The 71 grants were awarded to individuals around the world, selected from nearly 700 proposals. The funded projects include research, exhibitions, publications, films, digital initiatives, and other formats that promote rigorous, critical discourse in architecture.
The recipients of the 2021 funds are based in cities such as Ahmedabad, Milan, Mexico City, Durban, South Africa, and San Juan. Topics of exploration include the living legacy of under-recognized Black architect Charles E. Fleming, a book calling for action on climate change, architectural histories of heritage sites across Africa, and an exhibition that transports and transforms the last pit floor from the Chicago Board of Trade to Oscar Niemeyer’s Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion for the 2021 São Paulo Biennial.
“This year, as the pandemic forced communities, cities, and countries to close down, the inequities of design and the built environment only intensified,” said Graham Foundation director Sarah Herda. “Through this dynamic grantee cohort, the Graham continues its 65-year commitment to supporting individuals to realize ideas that have the power to change the field of architecture.”
The full set of grand recipients is highlighted below and on the Graham Foundation website.
Kaiser Permanente Hospital, "Baby Drawer," ca. 1950s. (A nurse tending to a sleeping infant in a mobile bassinet at a Kaiser Permanente Hospital, California, 1950s.) Courtesy Kaiser Permanente Heritage Resources From the 2021 individual grant to Juliana Rowen Barton, Michelle Millar Fisher, Zoë Greggs, Gabriella Nelson, and Amber Winick for "Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births"
John Lin, "The Seasonal House," 2019. ShangriLa, Yunnan, China. Photo: Rural Urban Framework From the 2021 individual grant to John Lin for "Renovation Toolbox: A guided tour of innovative houses by self-builders in rural China"
Thandi Loewenson, "Studies of the Zambian Space Programme: A Taxonomy of Flight. The Flag," 2020. Graphite on paper. Courtesy the artist From the 2021 individual grant to Thandi Loewenson for "Lumumba in Space: African Space Programs and the Project of Liberation"
Gottfried Böhm, The Pilgrimage Church Mary Queen of Peace, 1963–72. Photo: Steffen Kunkel, 2015 From the 2021 individual grant to Steffen Kunkel for "Gottfried Böhm and the Pilgrimage Church Mary, Queen of Peace"
Stefano Boeri Architetti: Stefano Boeri, Fiamma Invernizzi, Maria Lucrezia de Marco, Simone Marchetti, Sofia Paoli, Maria Chiara Pastore, Luis Pimentel, and Livia Shamir (Green Obsession)
Elizabeth Suina (Cochiti) of Suina Design + Architecture (Formerly Garret Smith Ltd), Valle Vista Elementary School, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Courtesy Suina Design + Architecture? From the 2021 individual grant to Theodore S. Jojola and Lynn Paxson for "Contemporary Indigenous Architecture–The Pueblo Worldview"
Adriana Salazar, View of River La Compañía, Chalco Valley, Mexico, 2019. Photo: Adriana Salazar From the 2021 individual grant to Adriana Salazar for "Water Spells"
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