Julia Phillips, “‘Pentasomnia’ storyboard for ‘Institution’ video,” 2024. Digital drawing. Courtesy the artist. From the 2024 grant to Julia Phillips for “Pentasomnia” 

The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the award of $519,500 for 56 new grants to individuals. Selected from nearly 600 submissions made at the Foundation’s annual application deadline in September 2023, 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 funded projects are led by 84 individuals that include established and emerging architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, historians, and writers, based in cities such as Beijing, China; Bogotá, Colombia; Cairo, Egypt; Delhi, India; Houston, TX; Kampala, Uganda; London, United Kingdom; Los Angeles, CA; Melbourne, Australia; New York, NY; Paris, France; Washington, DC; and Chicago, IL, where the Graham Foundation is based.

The 2024 grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 68 years. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than 44 million dollars in direct support to over 5,100 projects by individuals and organizations around the world. The 2024 grants to organizations will be announced later this summer.

The complete list of the 2024 individual grantees follows. Learn more about each project by clicking the links below.

EXHIBITIONS

Carmen Amengual (Los Angeles, CA)
A Non-Coincidental Mirror

Germane Barnes (Miami, FL)
Columnar Disorder

Gustavo Caboco, Brunno Douat, Ana María Durán Calisto, Manuela Omari Ima, and Romelia Angelica Papue Mayancha (Brasília, Brazil; New Haven, CT; New York, NY; Shell Mera, Ecuador; Tepapade, Ecuador)
Dien Dien: To Feel the Other and Weave a Territory

Dream The Combine: Tom Carruthers and Jennifer Newsom (Ithaca, NY)
Pyramidion

Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Mengfan Wang, and Chen Zhan (Beijing, China and London, United Kingdom)
Ripple Ripple Rippling

Assaf Evron (Chicago, IL)
Collage for the Edith Farnsworth House

Dahlia Nduom (Washington, DC)
Tourism, Tropicalization and the Architectural Image

Albert Pope and Brittany Utting (Houston, TX)
The Sixth Sphere

Juana Salcedo (Austin, TX)
Jaguar Lens

Lobna Sana (Be’er-Sheva City, Israel)
Recognized

Craig L. Wilkins (Detroit, MI)
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, Ottawa, and Toronto, Canada)
Ikiaqqijjut [Travelling through Layers]: A Field Guide to Infrastructural Literacy and Northern Connection

Molly M Brandt and Kevin Weil (Chicago, IL and New York, NY)
Inventory of a Building’s Reuse and a Landscape’s Redesign

Samira Daneshvar and Adam Longebach (Cambridge, MA)
Shahr-e Ghesseh [City of Tales]

Mariam Ghani (New York, NY)
An Incident

Jess Myers (New York and Syracuse, NY)
Here There Be Dragons, Season Four: Odes[s]a

Julia Phillips (Berlin, Germany and Chicago, IL)
Pentasomni

Fred Schmidt-Arenales (New York, NY)
IT IS A GOOD PROJECT AND SHOULD BE BUILT

Elizabeth M. Webb (Atlanta, GA)
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, United Kingdom and Ottawa, Canada)
Disembodied Territories

Caitlin Blanchfield, Nina Kolowratnik, and Ophelia Rivas (Ali Jegk, Tohono O'odham Nation; Ithaca, NY; and Vienna, Austria)
Significant Impact: Contesting Surveillance Infrastructure on Indigenous Lands

Simon Boudvin (Paris, France)
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, CA)
From A to AECOM: Architecture Practice at the Twilight of Professional Tradition

Michelle JaJa Chang (Boston, MA)
Also Known As

Beatriz Colomina with Nick Axel and Guillermo S. Arsuaga (New York, NY; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; London, United Kingdom)
Sick Architecture

Eva Díaz (New York, NY)
After Spaceship Earth

Every Ocean Hughes (New York, NY)
Every Ocean Hughes: Alive Side

Suzanne Lettieri and Anya Sirota (Ithaca, NY and Ann Arbor, MI)
Junior Architects

Neil Levine (Cambridge, MA)
Architecture for Reading in Public: Henri Labrouste's Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève

Jeremy Lybarger (Chicago, IL)
Midnight Tremor: The Life and Art of Roger Brown

Anežka Minaříková (New York, NY)
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, Germany)
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, United Kingdom)
Joséphine Baker and the Colonial Modern

Amber N. Wiley (Philadelphia, PA)
Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation's Capital

Sara Zewde (New York, NY)
Finding Frederick Law Olmsted in Cotton’s Kingdom

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Verda Alexander and Maya Bird-Murphy (San Francisco, CA and Chicago, IL)
Envisioning New Futures through Alternative Practice

Pedro Aparicio-Llorente (Bogotá, Colombia)
Payao: Trans-Pacific Sardine House

Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns (Syracuse, NY 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, CA)
Staring at the Sun

Alice Buoli, Popi Iacovou, and Socrates Stratis (Milan, Italy and Nicosia, Cyprus)
Everyday Commoning: Living Diaries for Nicosia's Transnational Spaces

Arthur J. Clement and Emily G. Makaš (Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC)
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, NY and Oakland, CA)
Engaging Grief and Healing in Design

Annie Howard (Chicago, IL)
From Diva’s to the Pyramid

Elise Misao Hunchuck (Berlin, Germany)
An Incomplete Atlas of Stones

Yakin Kinger (Nashik, India)
Contesting Cultural Territory: Rereading Colonial Transformations of India’s Baghs

Sydney Rose Maubert (Miami, FL)
Queen of the Swamp: The Saltwater Railroad

Shivangi Mariam Raj (Delhi, India and Paris, France)
Shadow Thresholds: Architectures of Ruin in India

Hylozoic/Desires: Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser (Delhi, India and London, United Kingdom)
The Hedge of Halomancy

Anthony K. Wako (Kampala, Uganda)
Tracing the Footprints of Entangled Narratives

James Wines, Suzan Wines, and Phillip Denny (New York, NY)
What Else Could It Mean? Writings and Drawings by James Wines, 1972–2022