Nifemi Marcus-Bello, “Waf Kiosk (temporary installation),” 2022. Photograph. Courtesy nmbello Studio, Lagos, Nigeria. Photo: Jide Ayeni. From the 2022 individual grant to Nifemi Marcus-Bello for “Africa—A Design Utopia”
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 and narrative focus. They were joined by the group saay/yaas’ website her(e), otherwise, films from Helen Kazan and Leila Kazmi, and a robust slate of research projects to round out one of the largest grant classes in recent memory.
To date, the Foundation has awarded some $42 million in funding to a long list of architects, academics, institutions, and design professionals, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, and one of last year’s grant winners, now an incoming Cornell University doctoral candidate, Alican Taylan.
Next year’s application cycle officially begins on July 15th. Submissions are due by September 15th. The complete list of 2022 grantees can be viewed below.
Student Shelter, "PAAF Studio (Programa Académico de Asistencia Federal), project: Borrachia (thesis director), and students, Alvarez, Brautigam, Guerra, Iannaci, Lagues, Pinheiro, Tomalino, Velazquez, Escuela Superior de Arquitectura y Diseño, Universidad de Morón," 2017 (Design-Build studio project in San Miguel de los Colorados, Jujuy, Argentina). Photo: UM ESAD. From the 2022 individual grant to Gustavo Diéguez, Felipe Mesa and Ana Valderrama for “Design-Build Studios in Latin America: Teaching through a Social Agenda”
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, “Shop,” Ifo camp, Dadaab, Kenya, 2011. Courtesy the author. From the 2022 individual grant to Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi for “Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement”
Marshall Brown, "The Principle of Inconsistency," 2019. Photo collage on paper, 17.5 x 23 in. Private collection, Chicago. From the 2022 individual grant to Marshall Brown for “The Architecture of Collage”
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