Graham Foundation awards 2017 Individual Grants to 72 projects

The Graham Foundation granted a total of $560,000 to support 72 projects by designers investigating original architectural ideas. From exhibitions to publications to live performances, the winning projects were distinguished for their potential to fuel creative experimentation and critical dialogue, advance new scholarship, and expand new opportunities for public engagement with architecture.

“Many of our grantees this year are exploring the agency of design,” Graham Foundation director Sarah Herda said in a statement. “They are testing the limits of conventional practice to make new work that directly engages the social and political dimensions of the designed environment.”

Out of almost 700 submissions from around the globe, here are this year's grantees below.

Exhibitions

Marcelo Araya, Andrés Garcés, Iván Ivelic & Manuel Sanfuentes
Daniel Cardoso
Assaf Evron
Nathan Friedman
Anna Halprin
Suzanne Harris-Brandts & Angela Wheeler
Rick Lowe
Zahra Malkani & Shahana Rajani
Senam Awo Okudzeto
Maxi Spina
Martine Syms

Film/Video/New Media Projects 

Josef Asteinza & Mariano Ros
TOMA: Leandro Cappetto, Mathias Klenner, Eduardo Pérez, Ignacio Rivas & Ignacio Saavedra
Aggie Ebrahimi, Oscar Molina, Brenda Isabel Steinecke Soto, Catalina Ortiz & Sandra Tabares-Duque
Daniel Eisenberg
Sean Lally
Liam Young

Public Program 

Seán Curran & David Skidmore, with Diana Balmori 

Publications

Kunlé Adeyemi & Suzanne Lettieri
Esra Akcan
Barry Bergdoll & Jonathan Massey
Caitlin Berrigan
Michael Carriere & David Schalliol
Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II & Mabel O. Wilson
Alison J. Clarke
Francesco Dal Co
Roberto Damiani
Martha Deese 

Publications, continued

Teresa Fankhänel
Leonardo Finotti
Reto Geiser
Design Earth: Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy
Cristina Goberna & Urtzi Grau
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Maria Gough
Helen Gyger
Aimi Hamraie
Rory Hyde
Office for Political Innovation: Andrés Jaque
Omar Kholeif
Tiffany Lambert
Paolo Nicoloso
Conor O’Shea
Itohan I. Osayimwese

Publications, continued

Kyong Park
Angelo Plessas
Mil M2: Fernando Portal
Anders Herwald Ruhwald
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
Elisa Silva
Christopher Sims
Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin
Molly Wright Steenson
Paulo Tavares
Allyson Vieira

Research

Michelle Moore Apotsos
Tulay Atak
Lee Azus
Andrea Bagnato 
Eva Díaz
WAI Think Tank: Nathalie Frankowski & Cruz Garcia
Miyuki Aoki Girardelli
Virginia Hanusik
Sophie Debiasi Hochhäusl

Research, continued

Branden W. Joseph, Felicity D. Scott & Mark Wasiuta
Jeffrey Mansfield
Rebecca O’Neal Dagg
Jason Oddy
MK Smaby & Carolyn Wheeler
Irene V. Small
Despina Stratigakos
Chat Travieso