Following the May announcement of its 56 individual grantees for 2022, Chicago-based nonprofit the Graham Foundation has revealed 36 awarded projects—exhibitions, public programs, publications, digital initiatives including podcasts, and more—led by organizations that will share $338,000 in grant funding this year. While the list of awardees is Chicago- and New York–heavy, it also includes projects from organizations located further field including Buenos Aires, Montreal, London, Mexico City, and Colombo, Sri Lanka.

For just a taste, funded projects include an upcoming solo exhibition by artist Charisse Pearlina Weston at the Queens Museum, a forthcoming collection of writings on playground design by late Canadian landscape architect Cornelia Han Oberlander from Concordia University Press, and a restaging of the 2019 exhibition Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture, designed and curated by Sekou Cooke, at Design Museum Atlanta.

Dedicated to fostering “the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society,” the Graham Foundation has awarded more than $42 million in direct support to nearly 5,000 by organizations and individuals across the globe since it was established in 1956. As noted by the foundation in its announcement, many of the organizations awarded in this round of support are on the younger side, with a majority being founded within the last 15 years.

Among the 2022 organization awardees are the Ragdale Foundation, the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (also the recent recipient of an NEH grant), MAS Context, Counterpublic, and the Lesley Lokko–founded African Futures Institute in Accra, Ghana.

Several friends of AN including New York Review of Architecture, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Architectural League of New York, and Soho gallery space a83 are among the Graham Foundation’s 2022 organizational grantees. Student-led publications from schools including Rice Architecture, the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University, and the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago round out the list.

All 36 of Graham Foundation 2022 organizational grantees and their respective awarded projects are listed below, while more information on each can be found here.

Exhibitions

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

Anyone Corporation (New York City)
Model Behavior

Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago)
Himali Singh Soin: Static Range

The Arts Club of Chicago (Chicago)
Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures

The Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City, California)
Harpers Ferry: An Interpretive Epicenter

Counterpublic (St. Louis)
Counterpublic 2023

Disponible (Buenos Aires)
Making Architecture Available, 2022–23 Program

Floating Museum (Chicago)
Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats

LIGA—Space for Architecture (Mexico City)
Arquitectura Para Dioses (Architecture for Gods)

MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, at the Schindler House (West Hollywood, California)
Seeking Zohn

Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta)
Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip—Hop Architecture

Queens Museum (New York City)
Charisse Pearlina Weston: of [a] tomorrow: lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust.

Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York City)
On The Ground

Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio)
Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective

Film, Video, and New Media Projects

The Architectural League of New York (New York City)
Seeing the Whole: Design for Climate, Biodiversity, and Justice in a Complex and Dynamic World

Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (New York City)
New Angle: Voice

Society of Architectural Historians—Race and Architectural History Affiliate Group (Chicago)
I Pity the Countries: Comparative Spatial Histories of Settler Colonialism, Race & Podcast

Public Programs

Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago)
2022 Design Matters Conference

Mobile Makers Chicago (Chicago)
Interdisciplinary and Intergenerational Design Summit

Publications

African Futures Institute (Accra, Ghana)
FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, Volume 3: 19.8

Bracket (Toronto)
Bracket [On Sharing]

California College of the Arts—Architecture Division (San Francisco)
Reviewing Design Book Review

Concordia University Press (Montreal)
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds

The Experiment (New York City)
Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City

Faktur (University Park, Pennsylvania)
Faktur: Documents and Architecture, Issues No. 4 and 5

Geoffrey Bawa Trust (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Drawing from the Geoffrey Bawa Archives

Goldsmiths College, London University—Centre for Research Architecture (London)
Research Architecture: Provocations, Practices, and Propositions

Manifest Institute of the Americas (New York City)
Manifest: A Journal of the Americas, Issues 4–5

MAS Context (Chicago)
MAS Context 34: AIR

New York Review of Architecture (New York City)
New York Review of Architecture, 2022

Student-led Publications

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

Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston)
PLAT 12.0

Texas Tech University—College of Architecture (Lubbock, Texas)
CROP 10: YIELD

University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles)
POOL, Issue No. 08

University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (Chicago)
Fresh Meat Journal 14