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The Graham Foundation awards a total of $501,500 to 38 projects that are 'expanding the discussion and understanding of architecture and design'
Students of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Architecture, constructing a geodesic dome, under tutorage of John Lloyd and Keith Critchlow, 1964. Courtesy AA Archives. Photo: Keith Critchlow. Courtesy of the Graham Foundation.
The Graham Foundation has announced a total of $501,500 worth of funding as part of the 2023-24 Grants to Organizations cycle, which this year honors some 38 projects from the United States and five other countries.
This fall’s upcoming Chicago Architecture Biennial and Exhibit Columbus are examples of 11 highlighted exhibitions developed by organizations and institutions recognized in this year's award circle. Groups such as the Cooper Hewitt, Dia Art Foundation, Landmark Columbus Foundation, and Chicago Architecture Center are a reflection of the Graham Foundation’s aim to “foster the development and exchange of ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.”
Publications such as those led by Dark Matter U, a83, and the New York Review of Architecturewere also recognized alongside student-led publications from schools such as UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, USC School of Architecture, and Rice University School of Architecture, to name a few. Organizations such as the African
American Student Union of Harvard University Graduate School of Design and other entities like the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Geoffrey Bawa Trust were also recognized for their impactful public programming.
The Graham Foundation shares it has now awarded a total of $43 million worth of grants to groups and individuals since its founding in 1956. Below is the full list of organizational grantees for the 2023 cycle.
taisha paggett, Installation view of i believe in echoes, Audio Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver 2018. Courtesy taisha paggett. Photo: Blaine
Campbell. From the 2023 grant to Soberscove Press for the publication In the Horizontal Plane: taisha paggett performance works. Courtesy of the Graham Foundation.
Amaza Lee Meredith Scrapbook, Azurest South (Negative), n.d. Photograph, 4 x 6 in. Courtesy Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia. From the 2023 grant to Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation for the exhibition Dear Mazie,. Courtesy of the Graham Foundation.
Publications
- a83 (New York, NY) - Architectural Image-Making in 1980s New York: The John Nichols Printmakers & PublishersCollection
- Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal, Canada) - AP205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the Archive by Studio Muoto, Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von
Ellrichshausen
- Dark Matter U (Philadelphia, PA) - Challenging Patterns of Supremacy: Provocations from Collective Pedagogy, Practice, and
Organizing
- Dongola (Beirut, Lebanon) - Provoking the Territory: Bernard Khoury
- i press (Boston, MA) - Revisiting the i press Series on the Human Environment by Mary Otis Stevens
- LIGA—Space for Architecture (Mexico City, MA) - The missing architect
- Loudreaders (Ames, IA) - The LOUDREADER
- New York Review of Architecture (New York, NY) - Los Angeles Review of Architecture
- Soberscove Press (Chicago, IL) - In the Horizontal Plane: taisha paggett performance works
- University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture (Chicago, IL) - The UIC/SoArch Journal
- Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK) - Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa and South Asia
Olalekan Jeyifous, Street Marsh, 2023. Digital collage. Courtesy the artist. From the 2023 grant to Art Omi for the exhibition "Olalekan Jeyifous: Even in Arcadia..." Courtesy of the Graham Foundation.
Student-led Publications
- Paprika! (New Haven, CT) - Paprika! Volume IX
- Rice University School of Architecture (Houston, TX) - PLAT 13
- Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, Canada) - SPACE FOR FREE
- University of California, Berkeley Architecture Department (Berkeley, CA) - ArkisnakA qu
- University of California, Los Angeles Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles, CA) - POOL, Issue No. 09
- University of Southern California School of Architecture (Los Angeles, CA) - SPACE, Vol. 1: Delirium
Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO, Designed by the Public, 2023. Digital rendering. Courtesy Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO / Exhibit Columbus. From the 2023 grant to Landmark Columbus Foundation for the exhibition Public by Design: 2023 Exhibit Columbus. Courtesy of the Graham Foundation.
Public Programs
Film, Video, and New Media Projects
Learn more about the Graham Foundation and this year's grantees here.
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