The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts has announced 2020 Grants to Individuals. A total of 52 new grants will support critical projects that tackle contemporary issues, broaden historical perspectives, and explore the future of architecture and the designed environment. They are awarded for research, exhibitions, publications, films, and digital initiatives, among other formats.
The 2020 grants support emerging and established architects, scholars, writers, artists, designers, curators, filmmakers, and other innovators working worldwide on urgent issues that further the contemporary understanding of the built environment. This cohort was selected from the annual open call for ideas that resulted in over 600 submissions last fall.
“Now more than ever, support for challenging ideas is essential to realize change,” noted Graham director Sarah Herda. “The Graham Foundation invests in people working to reimagine and push the boundaries of architecture. From addressing issues such as systemic racism and injustice; to the impacts of colonialism, geopolitics, and climate change; and raising awareness of under recognized figures and bodies of work, the 2020 grantees demonstrate new possibilities for the field.”
In conjunction with the 2020 grantee announcement, the Foundation is pleased to also share that the 2021 international open call for applications is now live on grahamfoundation.org. Individuals are invited to apply by submitting an Inquiry Form by September 15, 2020.
List of Graham Foundation's 2020 Individual Grantees
Exhibitions
- Cathy Hsiao (Chicago, IL) | Mother’s House 孃家 | Architecture for Water Cannon Blue 水砲藍
- Prem Krishnamurthy (New York, NY) | ‘Future of Futures’ (Scene 1: Nottingham Contemporary)
- Figure: James Leng and Jennifer Ly (San Francisco, CA) | Veil Craft
- Zoe Leonard (New York, NY) | Al Rio/The River
- Future Firm: Ann Lui and Craig Reschke (Chicago, IL) | The Night Gallery: Wonderland
- Alex Martínez Suárez (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) | Jaragua no cae
Film, Video, and New Media Projects
- Miriam Hillawi Abraham (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) | Abyssinian Cyber Vernaculus
- Rossella Biscotti (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) | The City
- Jay Cephas (Dorchester, MA) | Black Architects Archive
- Killian Doherty and Edward Lawrenson (Edinburgh and London, United Kingdom) | Salone Drift
- Maxwell Mutanda (Cape Town, South Africa) | (In)Voluntary Mutations
- Jess Myers (New York, NY) | Here There Be Dragons, Season Three: Stockholm
- Fred Schmidt-Arenales (
Philadelphia, PA) | Committee of Six - Clarissa Tossin (Los Angeles, CA) | Mojo’q che b’ixan ri ixkanulab’/Antes de que los Volcanes Canten/Before the Volcanoes Sing
Publications
- Stan Allen (Elizaville, NY) | Situated Objects
- Julie Ault (New York, NY) | Hidden in Plain Sight: Selected Writings of Karin Higa
- Shiben Banerji (Chicago, IL) | Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy
- Besler & Sons: Erin Besler and Ian Besler (Hopewell, NJ) | Best Practices
- Greg Castillo and Lee Stickells (Berkeley, CA and Sydney, Australia) | Design Radicals: Spaces of Bay Area Counterculture
- Lawrence Chua (Syracuse, NY) | Bangkok Utopia: Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910–1973
- Joseph L. Clarke (Toronto, Canada) | Echo's Chambers: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space
- Stephanie Cristello (Chicago, IL) | Barbara Kasten: Architecture & Film (2015–2020)
- Neven Fuchs, Stefano Graziani, and Aleksandra Ognjanov (Oslo, Norway and Trieste, Italy) | Sverre Fehn Architecture
- Aglaya K. Glebova (Berkeley, CA) | Aleksandr Rodchenko and Photography in the Age of Stalin
- Nicolas Grospierre (Warsaw, Poland) | A House for Culture
- Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani (London, United Kingdom and Neuchâtel, Switzerland) | Agitated Waters: Migration, Borders, and Activism in the Wake of the Mediterranean Spring
- Nana Last (Charlottesville, VA) | Archive Matrix Assembly: The Photography of Thomas Struth
- Roberta Marcaccio (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) | The Hero of Doubt
- Sarah M. Miller (Oakland, CA) | Documentary in Dispute: The Original Manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland
- Catherine Seavitt Nordenson (New York, NY) | The Miasmist: George E. Waring, Jr. and the Sanitary Landscape
- John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog (London, United Kingdom) | Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation
- Spyros Papapetros and Gerd Zillner (New York, NY and Vienna, Austria) | Frederick Kiesler's Magic Architecture: The Story of Human Housing
- Christina Schwenkel (Riverside, CA) | Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Design in Urban Vietnam
- Delia Duong Ba Wendel (Cambridge, MA) | Rwanda's Genocide Heritage: Between Memory and Sovereignty
Research Projects
- Pak Khawateen Painting Club: Malika Abbas, Saulat Ajmal, Amna Hashmi, Saba Khan, Natasha Malik, Zohreen Murtaza, and Emaan Shaikh (Lahore, Pakistan) | Barrages and the Fragmentation of the River Indus
- Anthony Acciavatti (New York, NY) | Building a Republic of Villages
- Christina E. Crawford (Atlanta, GA) | Atlanta Housing Interplay: Expanding the Interwar Housing Map
- Ghazal Jafari (Charlottesville, VA) | Rivers of Power
- Andrés Jaque and Bart-Jan Polman (New York, NY) | OFFSHORECRACY: A Study of How Offshore Regimes Act Architecturally
- Gelare Khoshgozaran (Los Angeles, CA) | Inviolable Exteriors
- Jorge L. Lizardi Pollock (San Juan, Puerto Rico) | Wicked Colonial Nostalgias: Power, Tragedy, and Heritage-Making in Caribbean Cities
- Kera Lovell (Incheon, South Korea) | The People’s Park: Work, the Body, and the Built Environment in Radical Postwar Placemaking
- Jessica Lynne (Newport News, VA) | Drafts for an Epic
- Geoff Manaugh (Los Angeles, CA) | Invisible Cities: Architecture's Geophysical Turn
- Kareem Rabie (Washington, DC) | Everywhere in the World there is a Chinatown; in China there is a Khaliltown
- Juana Salcedo (Bogotá, Colombia) | A Cartography of Interconnection: Jaguars, Humans, and the Redesign of Urbanscapes in the Americas
- Beatriz A. Santos (Orlando, FL) | The “Race Colony:” An Architectural Threshold to the Realization of Freedom
- Ishita Shah (Bengaluru, India) | Revisiting India’s Architectural History: Tracing the Women Practitioners of Twentieth Century India
- Kirsten Swenson (Lowell, MA) | Public Works: Land Art and Urban Redevelopment
- Jina Valentine (Chicago, IL) | The Exhibit of American Negroes, Revisited
- Oliver Wainwright (London, United Kingdom) | The New Utopias
- Ed Wall (London, United Kingdom) | Expanding Architectural Operations
The descriptions of the awarded projects can be found online.
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