Graham Foundation awards 56 individual grants for 2024

The Graham Foundation’s 2024 Grants for Individuals recipients have been announced in Chicago. A field of 56 architectural researchers, artists, filmmakers, and other design scholars was given the prestigious annual grants for various projects that support and foster the exchange of ideas about architecture. The 68th edition includes 11 exhibitions, 21 publications, 16 research projects, six films, a podcast, and one new media endeavor from 84 individuals to total some $519,500 in grant funding overall.

The Graham Foundation says it has now awarded over $44 million through the individual grants program since 1956. The 2024 grants to organizations recipients and Carter Manny Award winner will be announced later this summer. 

This year's individual grantees are:

EXHIBITIONS

• Carmen Amengual - A Non-Coincidental Mirror
• Germane Barnes - Columnar Disorder
• Dream The Combine - Pyramidion
• Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Chen Zhan, and Mengfan Wang - Ripple Ripple Rippling
• Gustavo Caboco, Ana María Durán Calisto, Brunno Douat, Romelia Angelica Papue Mayancha, and Manuela Omari Ima - Dien Dien: To Feel the Other and Weave a Territory
• Assaf Evron - Collage for the Edith Farnsworth House
• Dahlia Nduom - Tourism, Tropicalization, and the Architectural Image
• Albert Pope and Brittany Utting - The Sixth Sphere
• Juana Salcedo - Jaguar Lens
• Lobna Sana - Recognized
• Craig L. Wilkins - if history were told as stories it'd never be forgotten...

FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS

• Mark Bennett, Geronimo Inutiq, and Rafico Ruiz - Ikiaqqijjut [Travelling through Layers]: A Field Guide to Infrastructural Literacy and Northern Connection
• Molly M Brandt and Kevin Weil - Inventory of a Building’s Reuse and a Landscape’s Redesign
• Samira Daneshvar and Adam Longebach - Shahr-e Ghesseh [City of Tales]
• Mariam Ghani - An Incident
• Jess Myers - Here There Be Dragons, Season Four: Odes[s]a
• Julia Phillips - Pentasomnia
• Fred Schmidt-Arenales - IT IS A GOOD PROJECT AND SHOULD BE BUILT
• Elizabeth M. Webb - Artificial Horizon

PUBLICATIONS

• Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat - A Territory in Conflict: Eras of Development and Urban Architecture in Gaza
• Menna Agha and Sara Salem - Disembodied Territories
• Caitlin Blanchfield, Nina Kolowratnik, and Ophelia Rivas - Significant Impact: Contesting Surveillance Infrastructure on Indigenous Lands
• Simon Boudvin - Commune, Communism, Commons: A Walk Through Ivry-sur-Seine
• Civil Architecture: Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Ismail Karimi - Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History
• Aaron Cayer - From A to AECOM: Architecture Practice at the Twilight of Professional Tradition
• Michelle JaJa Chang - Also Known As
• Beatriz Colomina with Nick Axel and Guillermo S. Arsuaga - Sick Architecture
• Eva Díaz - After Spaceship Earth
• Every Ocean Hughes - Every Ocean Hughes: Alive Side
• Suzanne Lettieri and Anya Sirota - Junior Architects
• Neil Levine - Architecture for Reading in Public: Henri Labrouste's Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
• Jeremy Lybarger - Midnight Tremor: The Life and Art of Roger Brown
• Anežka Minaříková - Clara Istlerová, A Life Among Letters
• Elizabeth J. Petcu - The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation
• Ari Seligmann - The Photographic Construction of Japanese Architecture
• Angelika Stepken - Life after Architecture: The Writings of Gian Piero Frassinelli (Superstudio) 1966–2022
• Stefaan Vervoort - Marcel Broodthaers—The Architect is Absent
• Ines Weizman - Joséphine Baker and the Colonial Modern
• Amber N. Wiley  - Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation's Capital University
• Sara Zewde - Finding Frederick Law Olmsted in Cotton’s Kingdom

RESEARCH

• Shivangi Mariam Raj - Shadow Thresholds: Architectures of Ruin in India
• Verda Alexander and Maya Bird-Murphy - Envisioning New Futures through Alternative Practice
• Pedro Aparicio-Llorente - Payao: Trans-Pacific Sardine House
• Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns - Women Architects and Global Solidarity Across the Cold War Divide: The International Union of Women Architects, 1963–1993
• Alice Bucknell - Staring at the Sun
• Alice Buoli, Popi Iacovou, and Socrates Stratis - Everyday Commoning: Living Diaries for Nicosia's Transnational Spaces
• Arthur J. Clement and Emily G. Makaš - Philip G. Freelon: An Architect of Relationships and Stories
• Yasmine El Rashidi - Monograph: Ali Labib Gabr and the Decolonization of Architecture
• Christine Gaspar and Liz Ogbu - Engaging Grief and Healing in Design
• Annie Howard - From Diva's to the Pyramid
• Elise Misao Hunchuck - An Incomplete Atlas of Stones
• Yakin Kinger - Contesting Cultural Territory: Rereading Colonial Transformations of India’s Baghs
• Sydney Rose Maubert - Queen of the Swamp: The Saltwater Railroad
• Hylozoic/Desires: Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser - The Hedge of Halomancy
• Anthony K. Wako - Tracing the Footprints of Entangled Narratives
• James Wines, Suzan Wines, and Phillip Denny - What Else Could It Mean? Writings and Drawings by James Wines, 1972–2022

The deadline for next year's Grants to Individuals inquiries is September 15th. Applications will be available after July 15th.