Students from the Neighborhood Renewal Corps, University of Pennsylvania build play equipment from reclaimed materials, 1961, Philadelphia, PA. Karl Linn Collection, Courtesy of Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley. From the 2014 Carter Manny Award to Anna Goodman for “Citizen Architects: Ethics, Education, and the Construction of a Profession, 1933-2013.”

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2014 Carter Manny Award for PhD dissertation writing and research. Since the establishment of this award in 1996, the Graham Foundation has awarded over $672,000 to support promising scholars whose doctoral projects shape contemporary discourse about architecture and significantly impact the field. Two Carter Manny Awards are given each year, one for dissertation writing and one for dissertation research.

The recipient of the 2014 Carter Manny Award for writing and a $20,000 award is Anna Goodman, a PhD candidate in architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Goodman’s dissertation, Citizen Architects: Ethics, Education, and the Construction of a Profession, 1933-2013, explores the genesis of community design-build education as a model for ethical and professional practice in 20th-century American architecture.

The recipient of the 2014 Carter Manny Award for research and a $15,000 award is Steven Lauritano, a PhD candidate in the history of art at Yale University. Lauritano’s dissertation, Embedded Remnants in Modern Architecture: Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the Historiography of Remains, recovers the critical vocabulary of architectural remains to furnish a new method for reading 19th-century historicist design.

Additionally, five students merited Citations of Special Recognition for their doctoral dissertations. These projects are acknowledged for their critical study of a diverse range of topics in architecture, including an exploration of the pervasive use of concrete in the American occupation of the Philippines as representative of a new form of colonial governance; and an investigation of how the evolution and endurance of the Hadrianic Baths as a Roman civic institution expands our definitions of architectural monumentality.

These outstanding projects were selected after a competitive review of 40 applications from doctoral students throughout the U.S. and Canada who were nominated by their departments for the award. This year’s review panelists were Eva Diaz (History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute); Simon Sadler (Department of Design, University of California, Davis); and Despina Stratigakos (School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York).

This annual award is given in honor of Carter H. Manny and his long and distinguished service to the foundation since its inception in 1956, first as a Trustee, then as the Director from 1971, and since his retirement in 1993, as Director Emeritus.

To read more about the 2014 Carter Manny Award and the winning projects, click here.

Citations of Special Recognition

Writing

Concrete Colonialism: America, the Philippines, and the Development of a New Colonial Technique
DIANA MARTINEZ
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation, and Planning

To Changing Fortune: Monumentality and Transformation at the Hadrianic Baths of Aphrodisias
ALLYSON MCDAVID
New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Research

Letter Building: Signage, Supergraphics, and the Rise of the Semiotic Structure in Modern American Architecture
CRAIG LEE
University of Delaware, College of Art & Sciences, Department of Art History

Rearing the Royals: Architecture and the Spatialization of Royal Childhood in France, 1499-1643
ELIZABETH NARKIN
Duke University, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

Building Faith: Ethiopian Art and Architecture during the Jesuit Interlude, 1557-1632 
KRISTEN WINDMULLER-LUNA
Princeton University, The Department of Art & Archaeology

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