Aerial view, Pamplona Encounters, Pamplona, 1972. Copyright José Miguel de Prada Poole. Courtesy the author. From the 2022 Graham Foundation grant to MAS Context for the publication MAS Context 34: AIR
The Graham Foundation has announced its annual list of organizational grants featuring a total of 36 recipients from around the world whose work furthers institutional goals to support the development and exchange of ideas about architecture and design.
This year's class included projects from a variety of organizations located in Buenos Aires, Colombo, London, New York, St. Louis, Toronto, Chicago, and elsewhere. Podcasts from the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation and the Society of Architectural Historians’ Race and Architectural History Affiliate Group were awarded alongside public presentations, exhibitions, and publications like Lucy Sante’s engrossing Nineteen Reservoirs and the forthcoming Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds from Concordia University Press.
New organizations such as Lesley Lokko’s African Futures Institute (the publishers of FOLIO), The Lower East Side’s a83 gallery, and the Buenos Aires-based Disponible were also included in a total allotment that equaled $338,000. The Graham Foundation shares that it has now awarded some $42 million to individuals and organizations since its inception in 1956, adding that the majority of the recipients from this year’s class were founded in the last 15 years or less. In a press statement, they said: “This continues the commitment of the Graham Foundation to support emerging organizations that take risks to engage new ideas and audiences.”
Below are the 2022 Grant Organization Recipients:
Geoffrey Bawa, Yala Sand Dune Scheme, Elevation, 1968. Ink on paper. Drawing by Nihal Amarasinghe (attributed). Courtesy Geoffrey Bawa Trust. From the 2022 Graham Foundation grant to Geoffrey Bawa Trust for the publication Drawing from the Geoffrey Bawa Archives
EXHIBITIONS
a83 (New York, NY) - Architectural Image-Making in 1980s New York: The John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers Collection
Anyone Corporation (New York, NY) - Model Behavior
The Arts Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL) - Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City, CA) - Harper's Ferry: An Interpretive Epicenter
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Sketch plan for North Shore Neighborhood House Playground, Vancouver, British Columbia. 1968. Drawing in ink with graphite on translucent paper, 54 × 62 cm. Courtesy Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds, Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) Collection. ARCH401910. Gift of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander. Photo: CCA. From the 2022 Graham Foundation grant to Concordia University Press for the publication Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds
Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta, GA) - Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip—Hop Architecture
Floating Museum, Concept sketch for "Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats," 2022. Courtesy Floating Museum. From the 2022 Graham Foundation grant to Floating Museum for the exhibition Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats
Queens Museum (Queens, NY) - Charisse Pearlina Weston: of [a] tomorrow: lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust
Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL) - Echo, 10th Anniversary Ragdale Ring: Reconnecting to Our Roots
Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH) - Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective
Floating Museum (Chicago, IL) - Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats
Ronald (“Ron”) Edward Galella, "Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) protests at the World’s Fair, opening day," 1964 (printed 1994). Vintage silver gelatin print. Courtesy the Queens Museum. From the 2022 Graham Foundation grant to Queens Museum for the exhibition of Charisse Pearlina Weston: [a] tomorrow: lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust.
FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS
The Architectural League of New York (New York, NY) - Seeing the Whole: Design for Climate, Biodiversity, and Justice in a Complex and Dynamic World
Society of Architectural Historians—Race and Architectural History Affiliate Group (Chicago, IL) - Pity the Countries: Comparative Spatial Histories of Settler Colonialism, Race & Podcast
The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Clingmans Dome overlook at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina, 2006. Courtesy The Center for Land Use Interpretation. Photo: Center for Land Use Interpretation. From the 2022 Graham Foundation grant to The Center for Land Use Interpretation for the exhibition Harpers Ferry: An Interpretive Epicenter
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL) - 2022 Design Matters Conference
Mobile Makers Chicago (Chicago, IL) - Interdisciplinary and Intergenerational Design Summit
Makola Market, 2022, Accra. Photo: Festus Jackson-Davis. From the 2022 Graham Foundation grant to African Futures Institute for the publication FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, Volume 3: 19.8
PUBLICATIONS
African Futures Institute (Accra, Ghana) - FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, Volume 3: 19.8
Concordia University Press (Montreal, QC) - Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds
The Experiment (New York, NY) - Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City
Written by author Lucy Sante
Carol Newhouse, Scrapbook page, 1974. Mixed media. Courtesy the artist. From the 2022 Graham Foundation grant to Wexner Center for the Arts for the exhibition Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective
Faktur (University Park, PA) - Faktur: Documents and Architecture, Issues No. 4 and 5
Geoffrey Bawa Trust (Colombo, Sri Lanka) - Drawing from the Geoffrey Bawa Archives
Goldsmiths College, London University—Centre for Research Architecture (London, UK) - Research Architecture: Provocations, Practices, and Propositions
Manifest Institute of the Americas (New York, NY) - Manifest: A Journal of the Americas, Issues 4–5
New York Review of Architecture (New York NY) - New York Review of Architecture, 2022
Onnis Luque, Heroico Colegio Militar, Mexico City, 2022. Courtesy LIGA—Space for Architecture. From the 2022 Graham Foundation grant to LIGA—Space for Architecture for the exhibition Arquitectura Para Dioses (Architecture for Gods)
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