It’s that time of year again. The Graham Foundation announced this morning the names of 38 organizations receiving funding to “explore different issues, methods, and platforms of contemporary architecture discourse” made by “architects, archivists, artists, curators, designers, educators, and other professionals,” according to a press release. In total, $501,500 will be distributed to organizations ranging from Beirut, Los Angeles, Richmond, Tijuana, and Chicago, among other international locations.

This year’s Graham Foundation organizational grantees includes some of architecture’s rising stars and most accomplished interlocutors. It features Dark Matter U; LOUDREADERS, a free education platform by Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski; the Cleveland-studio SPACES; artist Olalekan Jeyifous; The Chicago Architecture Biennial; historian Charles L. Davis for a forthcoming installation at UT Austin; the historic Soho a83 gallery; New York–based gallery Citygroup; the African American Student Union at Harvard GSD; among many others. Graham Foundation also announced that it will support student publications such as Rice’s PLAT Journal, UCLA’s POOL, Yale’s Paprika, and SPACE, USC’s student magazine. 

Since its founding in 1956, the Graham Foundation has awarded “$43 million in direct support to over 5,000 projects by organizations and individuals.” The historic Chicago-based organization’s mission is to “convene audiences and collaborators around current and historic ideas across architecture, design, and education.” The full list of 2023 Graham Foundation organizational grantees and their respective awards projects are listed below, and more information about each recipient can be found here. 

Exhibitions

ArchiteXX (Syracuse, New York)
Spatializing Reproductive Justice

Art Omi (Ghent, New York)
Olalekan Jeyifous: Even in Arcadia…

Chicago Architecture Biennial (Chicago)
CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial

Chicago Architecture Center (Chicago)
OUR CHANGING DOWNTOWN: International Residency with ChartierDalix, Paris

Citygroup (New York)
Citygroup Exhibition Program, 2023

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York)
Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial

Del Vaz Projects (Los Angeles)
Alma Allen & Su Wu: Site Repair

Dia Art Foundation (New York)
Cameron Rowland at Dia Beacon

Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, Illinois)
A Love Supreme

Landmark Columbus Foundation (Columbus, Indiana)
Public by Design, 2023 Exhibit Columbus

The Renaissance Society (Chicago)
Dala Nasser

SPACES (Cleveland)
Everlasting Plastics, US Pavilion, 18th International Architecture Exhibition

University of Texas at Austin—School of Architecture (Austin)
The Black Home as Public Art

Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation (Richmond, Virginia)
Dear Mazie,

Film, Video, and New Media Projects

Architectural Association School of Architecture (London)
Entangled Archive: a digital framework for collecting and sharing the dispersed legacy of the AA Department of Tropical Architecture

The School of Architecture (Scottsdale, Arizona)
Seabreeze Bop City

Public Programs

Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago)
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, Massachusetts)
The Black Home, Black in Design Conference 2023

SALAA (Tijuana, Mexico)
Rethinking Architecture Education in Latin America

The World Around (New York)
The World Around Summit 2024

Publications

a83 (New York)
Architectural Image-Making in 1980s New York: The John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers Collection

Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal)
AP205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the Archive by Studio Muoto, Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Dark Matter U (Philadelphia)
Challenging Patterns of Supremacy: Provocations from Collective Pedagogy, Practice, and Organizing

Dongola (Beirut, Lebanon)
Provoking the Territory: Bernard Khoury

i press (Boston)
Revisiting the i press Series on the Human Environment by Mary Otis Stevens

LIGA—Space for Architecture (Mexico City)
The missing architect

Loudreaders (Ames, Iowa)
The LOUDREADER

New York Review of Architecture (New York)
Los Angeles Review of Architecture

Soberscove Press (Chicago)
In the Horizontal Plane: taisha paggett performance works

University of Illinois at Chicago—School of Architecture (Chicago)
The UIC/SoArch Journal

Victoria and Albert Museum (London)
Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa and South Asia

Student-Led Publications

Paprika! (New Haven, Connecticut)
Paprika! Volume IX

Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston)
PLAT 13

Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto)
SPACE FOR FREE

University of California, Berkeley—Architecture Department (Berkeley, California)
Arkisnak

University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles)
POOL, Issue No. 09

University of Southern California—School of Architecture (Los Angeles)
SPACE, Vol. 1: Delirium