Graham Foundation announces nearly $560,000 worth of grants to individuals

The Graham Foundation has announced 64 projects as part of its 2023 grants for individuals cohort in recognition of each’s capacity to challenge and expand the fields of architecture and design. This year's total grant value awarded equaled $559,100. Overall, a total of 14 exhibitions won grants this year, with 7 film, video, and new media projects, 23 publications, 18 research projects, and 2 public programs. The Foundation shared that this year's awardees were selected from approximately 500 total submissions. Of the 93 individual winners, a selection of these projects will be featured at the year’s Venice Architecture Biennale.

Cleveland-based SPACES, who will design the official United States pavilion in Venice, was awarded for their contribution, which includes the exhibition Everlasting Plastics curated by Xavi Laida Aguirre, Simon Anton, Ang Li, Norman Teague, and Lauren Yeager. They will also be joined by fellow 2023 grantees Thandi Loewenson, Felecia Davis, J. Yolande Daniels, Huda Tayob, Giovanni Bellotti, Alessandra Covini, Adelita Husni-Bey, Nahyun Hwang, and David Moon. 

View the complete list of 2023 grantees can be accessed below.

EXHIBITIONS

• KJ Abudu (Traces of Ecstasy)
• Giovanni Bellotti, Alessandra Covini and Adelita Husni-Bey (La Casa Tappeto)
• Radhi Ben Hadid, Meriem Chabani & John Edom (Muqarnas—Sacred Grounds)
• Gabriel Cira, James Heard, and Julian Phillips (Stull & Lee: Black Architecture Vision for an Infrastructural City)
• J. Yolande Daniels (Black City Astrolabe)
• Felecia Davis (TEXTURAL THRESHOLD HAIR SALON: Dreadlock)
• enFOLD Collective: Megan Echols & Dana McKinney (Black—Still)
• N H D M: Nahyun Hwang & David Moon Artists (Migrating Futures)
• Chandra M. Laborde (Transecological (Re)Imaginations in the Tenderloin)
• Thandi Loewenson (The Uhuru Catalogues)
• Andrea Molina Cuadro (Geo-Fantasies: A Space Race on Planet Earth)
• Marco Piscitelli (Rust on a Razor Blade: Mickey Muennig in Big Sur, 1970–2000)
• Tivon Rice (A Pattern Language for Spatial Adjacencies)
• Huda Tayob (Index of Edges)

FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS

• Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn (Design Emergency)
• Becky Beamer and Jori Erdman (Witness: Design of the Tougaloo Center for Racial Justice and Equity)
• Joseph Bedford (Attention Audio Journal, Issues 8, 9, and 10)
• Kenny Cupers, Makau Kitata, Chao Tayiana Maina (Kamirithu Theatre: An Architecture for Decolonization)
• Maria Gaspar (I Believe in the Things You Cannot See)
• Ana Miljački (I Would Prefer Not To)
• Vaissnavi Shukl (Architecture Off-Centre)

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

• Isabel Duarte, Maya Ober, and Nina Paim (Etceteras: feminist festival of design and publishing)
• Liz Gálvez and José Ibarra (Latinx Coalition Chats)

RESEARCH

• Gouled Ahmed and Asmaa Jama (Together we fled a realm)
• Toby Altman (Prairie School)
• Camren Amengual (A Non-Coincidental Mirror)
• Tutin Aryanti (Women’s Prayer Space: The Politics of Sex Segregation)
• Minnie Atairu (The Menstrual Isolation Room is a Spa!)
• Bruno Borgna, Mauricio Corbalán, and Pío Torroja (Giving Voice to the Río de La Plata Basin)
• Stephanie Choi (Twilight Requiem)
• Yasmina El Chami (Building “International Goodwill”: American Campuses in the “Near East,” 1919–1964)
• Design Earth: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy (Elephant in the Room, and Other Fables)
• Curry J. Hackett (Drylongso: Imaging the Black Landscape)
• Suzy Halajian and Noah Simblist (Cracks in the Edifice: Niemeyer’s futuristic fairground in Tripoli)
• Nusaibah Khan (Productive Landscapes in Srinagar—A Case of Floating Gardens and Hanji Settlements of Dal Lake)
• Sharon Leung (An Ode to Basement Workshop 1971–86)
• Paula Koeler Lira and Tatiana Pinto (Entangled Ecologies)
• Camila Palomino and Sean Vegezzi (Civic Gaze)
• Deepa Ramaswamy (Reclaimed Lands: The Ecological Legacies of Colonial Bombay’s Coasts)
• Alex Strada (House of D)
• Feifei Zhou (Between Land and Water— Architecture of Porosity)

PUBLICATIONS

• Carla Aramouny and Sandra Frem (Shifting Grounds [the ground between form and practice in Beirut])
• Anna Bokov (From Method to Style: Elements of Spatial Composition and Architectural Pedagogy after Vkhutemas)
• Kofi Boone and M. Elen Deming (Empty Pedestals: Narratives on History, Race and Public Design)
• Craig Buckley (The Street and the Screen: Architectures of Spectatorship in the Age of Cinema)
• Íñigo Cornago Bonal, Vishwanath Kashikar, and Christoph Lueder (How to Build with Time? Learning from Bimanagar, Ahmedabad, India)
• Alexander Eisenschmidt (Félix Candela from Mexico City to Chicago: Rise and Fall of Experimentation in Concrete)
• Makram El Kadi and Ziad Jamaleddine (From the Mountain to the Sea: Architectural Excursions in the Lebanese Landscape and Beyond)
• Yun Fu (Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground)
• Arnika Fuhrmann (In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City)
• Anna Goodman (Citizen Architects: How Hands-on Building in Architectural Education Shaped a Nation)

PUBLICATIONS (CONT.)

• Elisavet Hasa (Building Solidarity Architectures: Social Movements, Welfare Crisis and State Abandonment)
• Lydia Kallipoliti and Areti Markopoulou (EDIBLE; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism)
• John Kennen (Tony Smith Architecture Catalogue Raisonné)
• Gili Merin (Analogous Jerusalem)
• Faiza Moatasim (Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad)
• Léa Namer (Chacarita Moderna: The Brutalist Necropolis of Buenos Aires by the Architect Itala Fulvia Villa)
• Anjulie Rao (Weathered, Season 2)
• Judith Raum (Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture)
• Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió (Inland Empire: Settler Colonialism, Modern Architecture, and the Rise of American Hegemony)
• Davide Spina (Roman Leviathan: Architecture and Capitalism in Postwar Italy)
• Oscar Tuazon (Los Angeles Water School)
• Stathis Yeros (Queering Urbanism: Architecture, Embodiment, and Queer Citizenship)
• Claire Zimmerman (Albert Kahn, Inc. and the Architecture of Capitalism, 1905–1961)

For the last 67 years, the Graham Foundation has now supported over 5,000 projects and awarded over $43 million dollars to grantees. Past individual grant winners include Steven Holl, Charles Moore, and Robert Venturi among others.

Next year’s application cycle officially begins on July 15th. Submissions are due by the 15th of September.