The Graham Foundation has announced its 2018 awards with a total of $609,500 grants to organizations, including innovative projects led by eminent and emerging architects, artists, curators, filmmakers, historians, and publishers, among other professionals. 

Selected from over 200 proposals, the 53 awarded projects support work that continues to advocate for engaging original ideas that advance our understanding of the designed environment.

Grantee organizations hail from cities such as Bogotá, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lisbon, London, Mexico City, Montréal, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Francisco, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based. They join a worldwide network of institutions and individuals that the Graham Foundation has funded through the award of more than 4,450 grants over the past 62 years—including support for over 750 organizations working on architectural issues.

See the full list of the 2018 grants to organizations below:

Conference: Office of Metropolitan Architecture, Seattle Central Library, site of the 2018 Design Matters Conference, 2004, Seattle. Image © Philippe Ruault.

Exhibitions (25)

Architectural Heritage Center (Portland, OR)
Bard Graduate Center (New York, NY)
Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal, Canada)
Center for Architecture (New York, NY)
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City, CA)
Chicago Architecture Center (Chicago, IL)
Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
DePaul Art Museum (Chicago, IL)
Dia Art Foundation (New York, NY)
Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, United Kingdom)
Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, United Kingdom)
Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Art (Istanbul, Turkey)
Japan Society (New York, NY)
LIGA—Space for Architecture (Mexico, City)
Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Lisbon, Portugal)
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, at the Schindler House (Los Angeles, CA)
Michigan State University—Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (East Lansing, MI)
MK Gallery (Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago & The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Serpentine Galleries (London, United Kingdom)
Southern California Institute of Architecture (Los Angeles, CA)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico City, Mexico)
Whitechapel Gallery (London, United Kingdom)

Exhibition: Pricegore and Yinko Ilori, Colour Palace in context, rendering, 2018. Courtesy of Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.

Film/Video/New Media Projects (4)

The Architecture Exchange (London, United Kingdom)
Fieldwork Collaborative Projects (Chicago, IL)
IF INNOVATION FOUNDATION (Los Angeles, CA)
National Life Stories (London, United Kingdom)

New Media: Jenny Chen performing under Domo at the Tippet Rise Art Center, 2016. Design by Ensamble Studio (Anton Garcia-Abril and Debora Mesa). Image © Iwan Baan

Public Programs (5)

The Architectural League of New York (New York, NY)
Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL)
horizontal (Bogotá, Colombia)
Lampo (Chicago, IL)
Ragdale (Lake Forest, IL)

Exhibition: Offshore Studio, Globe: Earth School, 2018. Courtesy of the artists.

Publications (19)

Anyone Corporation (New York, NY)
Architectural Association School of Architecture—Landscape Urbanism(London, United Kingdom)
ar/ge kunst (Bolzano, Italy)
BlackSpace (New York, NY)
Columbia University—Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (New York, NY)
DoppelHouse Press (Los Angeles, CA)
The Green Lantern Press (Chicago, IL)
Harvard University—Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, MA)
Lars Müller Publishers (Zürich, Switzerland)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Future Heritage Lab (Cambridge, MA)

New Media: View of the National Theatre (Denys Lasdun, architect) and the Shed (Hawthorn Thompkins, architect), 2015, London. Image © Bill Knight.

Mills College Art Museum (Oakland, CA)Primary Information (New York, NY)
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles, CA)
University of California Press (Oakland, CA)
University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (Chicago, IL)
University of Illinois at Chicago—School of Architecture (Chicago, IL)
University of Johannesburg—Graduate School of Architecture (Johannesburg, South Africa)
University of Toronto—John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design (Toronto, Canada)
Yale University Press (New Haven, CT)

Upcoming Grant Application Deadlines:
Carter Manny Award: November 15, 2018
Grants to Organizations: February 25, 2019
Grants to Individuals: September 15, 2019

Top image: David Graham, Best Products Company Showroom Façade, 1981, featuring the project by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. (1978). Courtesy of the artist.

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