The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce over $560,000 in new grants to individuals around the world to support 72 innovative projects engaging original ideas in architecture. Among the funded projects are exhibitions, publications, films, live performances, and site-specific installations.
These diverse projects advance new scholarship, fuel creative experimentation and critical dialogue, and expand opportunities for public engagement with architecture and its role in contemporary society.
“Many of our grantees this year are exploring the agency of design,” notes Graham Foundation director Sarah Herda. “They are testing the limits of conventional practice to make new work that directly engages the social and political dimensions of the designed environment.”
This year’s awarded projects were selected from a competitive pool of nearly 700 submissions. The funded projects are being undertaken by individuals and collaborative teams—72 projects by 99 individuals representing 20 countries.
This projects include architects, designers, curators, filmmakers, visual artists, musicians, and writers from around the world in cities such as Karachi, Caracas, Venice, Istanbul, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based.
The new grantees join an international network of individuals and institutions that the Graham Foundation has supported through the award of more than 4,300 grants over the past 61 years in its role as one of the most significant funders in the field of architecture. Source and photos, Courtesy of Graham Foundation.