Graham Foundation announced this week the 2024 Grants to Individuals. The sum of $519,500 will be distributed among 56 recipients from domestic and international cities including Beijing; Cairo; Delhi; and Kampala, Uganda.
In total, 84 individuals were selected from a pool of nearly 600 submissions. The funded projects include publications, research, exhibitions, films, site-specific installations, and digital initiatives that expand contemporary ideas of architecture through innovative rigorous interdisciplinary work on design and the built environment, the Graham Foundation shared in a statement.
Among this year’s winners are Germane Barnes, Ines Weizman, Jess Myers, Sara Zewde, James Wines, and others familiar to AN readers. Topics that the grant money will support include Frederick Law Olmsted, Bedouin communities in Palestine, and Cold War international networks of solidarity between women in architecture.
Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.
The full list of 2024 Graham Foundation individual grantees and their respective awards projects are listed below, and more information about each recipient and their respective project concept can be found here.
Exhibitions
Carmen Amengual (Los Angeles)
A Non-Coincidental Mirror
Germane Barnes (Miami)
Columnar Disorder
Dream The Combine: Tom Carruthers and Jennifer Newsom (Ithaca, New York)
Pyramidion
Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Mengfan Wang, and Chen Zhan (Beijing and London)
Ripple Ripple Rippling
Gustavo Caboco, Brunno Douat, Ana María Durán Calisto, Manuela Omari Ima, and Romelia Angelica Papue Mayancha (Brasilia, Brazil; New Haven, Connecticut; New York City; Shell Mera, Ecuador; Tepapade, Ecuador)
Dien Dien: To Feel the Other and Weave a Territory
Assaf Evron (Chicago)
Collage for the Edith Farnsworth House
Dahlia Nduom (Washington, D.C.)
Tourism, Tropicalization, and the Architectural Image
Albert Pope and Brittany Utting (Houston)
The Sixth Sphere
Juana Salcedo (Austin, Texas)
Jaguar Lens
Lobna Sana (Be’er-Sheva City, Israel)
Recognized
Craig L. Wilkins (Detroit)
if history were told as stories it’d never be forgotten…
Film, Video, and New Media Projects
Mark Bennett, Geronimo Inutiq, and Rafico Ruiz (Montreal and Toronto)
Ikiaqqijjut [Travelling through Layers]: A Field Guide to Infrastructural Literacy and Northern Connection
Molly M Brandt and Kevin Weil (Chicago and New York)
Inventory of a Building’s Reuse and a Landscape’s Redesign
Samira Daneshvar and Adam Longenbach (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Shahr-e Ghesseh [City of Tales]
Mariam Ghani (New York)
An Incident
Jess Myers (New York and Syracuse, New York)
Here There Be Dragons, Season Four: Odes[s]a
Julia Phillips (Berlin and Chicago)
Pentasomnia
Fred Schmidt-Arenales (New York)
IT IS A GOOD PROJECT AND SHOULD BE BUILT
Elizabeth M. Webb (Atlanta)
Artificial Horizon
Publications
Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat (Haifa, Israel)
A Territory in Conflict: Eras of Development and Urban Architecture in Gaza
Menna Agha and Sara Salem (London and Ottawa, Canada)
Disembodied Territories
Caitlin Blanchfield, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik, and Ophelia Rivas (Ali Jegk, Tohono O’odham Nation; Ithaca, New York; and Vienna, Austria)
Significant Impact: Contesting Surveillance Infrastructure on Indigenous Lands
Simon Boudvin (Paris)
Commune, Communism, Commons: A Walk Through Ivry-sur-Seine
Civil Architecture: Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Ismail Karimi (Kuwait City, Kuwait, and Muharraq, Bahrain)
Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History
Aaron Cayer (Los Angeles)
From A to AECOM: Architecture Practice at the Twilight of Professional Tradition
Michelle JaJa Chang (Boston)
Also Known As
Beatriz Colomina with Nick Axel and Guillermo S. Arsuaga (Amsterdam, London, and New York)
Sick Architecture
Eva Díaz (New York)
After Spaceship Earth
Every Ocean Hughes (New York)
Every Ocean Hughes: Alive Side
Suzanne Lettieri and Anya Sirota (Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Ithaca, New York)
Junior Architects
Neil Levine (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Architecture for Reading in Public: Henri Labrouste’s Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
Jeremy Lybarger (Chicago)
Midnight Tremor: The Life and Art of Roger Brown
Anežka Minaříková (New York)
Clara Istlerová, A Life Among Letters
Elizabeth J. Petcu (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation
Ari Seligmann (Melbourne, Australia)
The Photographic Construction of Japanese Architecture
Angelika Stepken (Berlin)
Life after Architecture: The Writings of Gian Piero Frassinelli (Superstudio) 1966–2022
Stefaan Vervoort (Ghent, Belgium)
Marcel Broodthaers—The Architect is Absent
Ines Weizman (London)
Joséphine Baker and the Colonial Modern
Amber N. Wiley (Philadelphia)
Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital
Sara Zewde (New York)
Finding Frederick Law Olmsted in Cotton’s Kingdom
Research
Verda Alexander and Maya Bird-Murphy (Chicago and San Francisco)
Envisioning New Futures through Alternative Practice
Pedro Aparicio-Llorente (Bogotá, Colombia)
Payao: Trans-Pacific Sardine House
Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns (Syracuse, New York, and Melbourne, Australia)
Women Architects and Global Solidarity Across the Cold War Divide: The International Union of Women Architects, 1963–1993
Alice Bucknell (Los Angeles)
Staring at the Sun
Alice Buoli, Popi Iacovou, and Socrates Stratis (Milan and Nicosia, Cyprus)
Everyday Commoning: Living Diaries for Nicosia’s Transnational Spaces
Arthur J. Clement and Emily G. Makaš (Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina)
Philip G. Freelon: An Architect of Relationships and Stories
Yasmine El Rashidi (Cairo, Egypt)
Monograph: Ali Labib Gabr and the Decolonization of Architecture
Christine Gaspar and Liz Ogbu (New York and Oakland, California)
Engaging Grief and Healing in Design
Annie Howard (Chicago)
From Diva’s to the Pyramid
Elise Misao Hunchuck (Berlin)
An Incomplete Atlas of Stones
Yakin Kinger (Nashik, India)
Contesting Cultural Territory: Rereading Colonial Transformations of India’s Baghs
Sydney Rose Maubert (Miami)
Queen of the Swamp: The Saltwater Railroad
Shivangi Mariam Raj (Delhi, India, and Paris)
Shadow Thresholds: Architectures of Ruin in India
Hylozoic/Desires: Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser (Delhi, India, and London)
The Hedge of Halomancy
Anthony K. Wako (Kampala, Uganda)
Tracing the Footprints of Entangled Narratives
James Wines, Suzan Wines, and Phillip Denny (New York)
What Else Could It Mean? Writings and Drawings by James Wines, 1972–2022
