The Graham Foundation awards a total of $501,500 to 38 projects that are 'expanding the discussion and understanding of architecture and design'

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.

Exhibitions

• ArchiteXX - Spatializing Reproductive Justice
• Art Omi - Olalekan Jeyifous: Even in Arcadia...
• Chicago Architecture Biennial - CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial
• Chicago Architecture Center - Our Changing Downtown: International Residency with ChartierDalix, Paris 
• Citygroup - Citygroup Exhibition Program, 2023
• Cooper Hewitt - Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial
• Del Vaz Projects - Alma Allen & Su Wu: Site Repair
• Dia Art Foundation - Cameron Rowland at Dia Beacon
• Elmhurst Art Foundation - A Love Supreme
• Landmark Columbus Foundation - Public by Design, 2023 Exhibit Columbus
• The Renaissance Society - Dala Nasser
• SPACES - Everlasting Plastics, US Pavilion, 18th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice
• University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture - The Black Home as Public Art
• Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation - Dear Mazie,

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

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

Public Programs

• Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL) - 2024 Design Matters Conference
• Geoffrey Bawa Trust (Colombo, Sri Lanka) - On Gardens: Contemplating the Relative in Space, Time, and Life
• Harvard University Graduate School of Design African American Student Union (Cambridge, MA) - The Black Home, Black in Design Conference 2023
• SALAA (Tijuana, MX) - Rethinking Architecture Education in Latin America
• The World Around (New York, NY) - The World Around Summit 2024

Film, Video, and New Media Projects

• Architectural Association School of Architecture (London, UK) - Entangled Archive: a digital framework for collecting and sharing the dispersed legacy of the AA Department of Tropical Architecture 
• The School of Architecture (Scottsdale, AZ) - Seabreeze Bop City

Learn more about the Graham Foundation and this year's grantees here.