Today the Graham Foundation, a Chicago-based nonprofit dedicated to fostering “the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society,” revealed the names of 56 discipline-spanning, individual-led projects that will split more than $507,000 in grant funding this year. In total, 2022’s funded projects are led by 81 individual awardees. This cohort includes a diverse range of artists, architects, designers, filmmakers, curators, writers, and historians hailing from Los Angeles to Lagos, Boston to Buenos Aires, Abu Dhabi to Ithaca, and beyond. The grant recipients were selected from a pool of nearly 500 projects submitted for consideration.
Over its 65-year history, the Graham Foundation has awarded more than $42 million in direct support to nearly 5000 projects by both individuals and organizations.
As noted in a statement, the awardees are recognized for their work “exploring contemporary ideas that introduce new narratives, histories, and perspectives to expand and challenge the canons of architecture and design.” As in the past, the individual grant program is comprised of four key project categories: Exhibitions (7), Film, Video, and New Media (5), Publications (26), and Research Projects (18).
All 81 of the Graham Foundation’s 2022 individual grantees and their respective projects are listed below, while more information on each can be found here.
Exhibitions
Albert Brenchat-Aguilar | London
“As Hardly Found” in the Art of Tropical Architecture
Architectural Association, London
Imani Jacqueline Brown | London
What remains at the ends of the earth?
Sarah Hearne | Los Angeles
Print Ready Drawings
MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles
Sophie Leddick and Edgar Orlaineta | Los Angeles and Mexico City
Sack, mask and stick
Centro Cultural La Tallera, Museo Casa-Estudio de David Alfaro Siqueiros, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Temitayo Ogunbiyi | Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
You will wonder if we would have been friends
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Long Island City, New York
Ala Tannir | New York, New York
The Small Old House by the Sea
Beirut Heritage Initiative, Beirut, Lebanon
Krista Thompson | Evanston, Illinois
Antonius Roberts: Art, Ecology, and Sacred Space
National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
Film Video and New Media Projects
saay/yaas: Anna Nnenna Abengowe, Patricia Anahory, and Mawena Yehouessi | Abuja, Nigeria; New York, New York; Paris; Praia, Cabo Verde
her(e), otherwise
Helene Kazan | London
Frame of Accountability
Laila Kazmi | Elk Grove, California
Reaching New Heights: Fazlur Rahman Khan and The Skyscraper
Catalina Mejía Moreno and Huda Tayob | Cape Town, South Africa; Hove, United Kingdom
Architectures of the South: Bruising, Remembering, Repairing
Mona Minkara | Boston
Planes, Trains, and Canes
Publications
Emanuel Admassu and Anita N. Bateman | Houston and New York, New York
Where is Africa (Center for Art, Research and Alliances)
Ashley Bigham | Columbus, Ohio
Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire (Applied Research + Design Publishing)
Marshall Brown | Princeton, New Jersey
The Architecture of Collage (Park Books/Santa Barbara Museum of Art)
Louise Emily Carver and Angela Rui | Berlin and Milan
Aquaria. Or the Illusion of a Boxed Sea (Humboldt Books)
Jean-Louis Cohen | New York, New York
Russia’s Architecture 1861–1991: Poetics and Politics (MIT Press)
Gustavo Diéguez, Felipe Mesa, and Ana Valderrama | Buenos Aires; Champaign, Illinois; and Phoenix
Design-Build Studios in Latin America: Teaching through a Social Agenda (ORO Editions)
Chris Dingwall, David Hartt, and Daniel Schulman | Chicago; Hamtramck, Michigan; and Philadelphia
Black Designers in Chicago (University of Chicago Press)
David Escudero | Madrid
Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy (Routledge)
Oxana Gourinovitch | Berlin
National Theatre: Architecture of Soviet Modernism and Nation Building (Spector Books)
Freyja Hartzell | New York, New York
Richard Riemerschmid’s Extraordinary Living Things (MIT Press)
Renata Hejduk, Steven Hillyer, Kim Shkapich, and Jim Williamson | Lubbock, Texas; New York, New York; Scottsdale, Arizona; and Wellfleet, Massachusetts
The Ethical Mirror: Architecture, Dissidence, and the Radical Imagination (The Cooper Union/Czech Technical University)
Blair Kamin and Lee Bey | Chicago
Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago (University of Chicago Press)
Pamela Karimi | New Bedford, Massachusetts
Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice (Stanford University Press)
Indra Kagis McEwen | Montreal
All the King’s Horses: Vitruvius in an Age of Princes (MIT Press)
Marina Otero Verzier | Rotterdam
Evanescent Institutions: On the Politics of Temporary Architecture (Puente Editores)
Adair Rounthwaite | Seattle
This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb (University of Minnesota Press)
Ozayr Saloojee and Jamie Vanucchi | Ithaca, New York, and Ottawa
Design Research for Uncertain Futures (ORO Editions)
Joel Sanders | New York, New York
Stalled!: Inclusive Public Restrooms (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City)
Robin Schuldenfrei | London
Objects in Exile: Modernism across Borders, 1930–1960 (Princeton University Press)
Mark Shepard | Buffalo, New York
There Are No Facts: Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life (MIT Press)
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi | New York, New York
Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press)
Susan Slyomovics | Los Angeles
Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage (Stanford University Press)
Gregor Stemmrich | Abu Dhabi
Dan Graham—Some Rockin’ (Sternberg Press)
Jo-ey Tang | San Francisco
arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified (Dancing Foxes Press)
André Tavares | Porto, Portugal
Architecture Follows Fish (MIT Press)
Beth Weinstein | Tucson, Arizona
Architecture + Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space, and Time (Routledge)
Research
Riff Studio: Rekha Auguste-Nelson, Farnoosh Rafaie, and Isabel Strauss | Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York, New York; and Northridge, California
Architecture of Reparations—Case Study House
Michelle Barrett and Chris Daemmrich | Kansas City, Missouri, and New Orleans
Emergent Grounds for Design Education
Kimberly Juanita Brown | Manchester, Connecticut
Black Elegies
Fernanda Canales | Mexico City
If Women Made Cities: Expanding Coexistence
Dane Carlson, Sonam Lama, and Yungdrung Tsewang | Elsah, Illinois; Jomsom and Kathmandu, Nepal
Landscape is Change: Doing the Work of Making Landscape across Time
Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Mengfan Wang, and Chen Zhan | Beijing and London
Ripple Ripple Rippling
Tonia Sing Chi | Oakland, California
Storytelling Spaces of Solidarity in the Asian Diaspora
Coleman Collins | New York, New York
The (De)Ontological Oblique
Sharmyn Cruz Rivera and Danny Giles | Rotterdam
Josephine’s
Aria Dean | New York, New York
Abattoir, U.S.A!
Marco Ferrari and Elise Misao Hunchuck | Milan
Sky River
Zaha: A Biography
Joseph R. Hartman | San Juan, Puerto Rico
Eye of the Hurricane: Politics of Art, Architecture, and Climate in the Modern Caribbean
Sara Hendren | Cambridge, Massachusetts
The “Ideas Team” at Cherry Road: Day Centers, Cognitive Disability, and Reimagining the Art Therapy Encounter
Kelley Lemon | Champaign, Illinois
Connections through the Black Agricultural Landscape
Nifemi Marcus-Bello | Lagos, Nigeria
Africa—A Design Utopia
Sonal Mithal and Arul Paul | Ahmedabad and Mangalore, India
Queering Nawabi Lucknow: Architecture and the Colonial Archive
Dahlia Nduom | Washington, D.C.
Tourism, Tropicalization and the Architectural Image
