Today the Graham Foundation, a Chicago-based nonprofit dedicated to fostering “the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society,” revealed the names of 56 discipline-spanning, individual-led projects that will split more than $507,000 in grant funding this year. In total, 2022’s funded projects are led by 81 individual awardees. This cohort includes a diverse range of artists, architects, designers, filmmakers, curators, writers, and historians hailing from Los Angeles to Lagos, Boston to Buenos Aires, Abu Dhabi to Ithaca, and beyond. The grant recipients were selected from a pool of nearly 500 projects submitted for consideration.

Over its 65-year history, the Graham Foundation has awarded more than $42 million in direct support to nearly 5000 projects by both individuals and organizations.

As noted in a statement, the awardees are recognized for their work “exploring contemporary ideas that introduce new narratives, histories, and perspectives to expand and challenge the canons of architecture and design.” As in the past, the individual grant program is comprised of four key project categories: Exhibitions (7), Film, Video, and New Media (5), Publications (26), and Research Projects (18).

All 81 of the Graham Foundation’s 2022 individual grantees and their respective projects are listed below, while more information on each can be found here.

Exhibitions

Albert Brenchat-Aguilar | London

“As Hardly Found” in the Art of Tropical Architecture
Architectural Association, London

Imani Jacqueline Brown | London

What remains at the ends of the earth?

aerial view of industrial land
Imani Jacqueline Brown, Still from What remains at the ends of the earth?, 2022. Digital film still, 1920 x 1080. Courtesy the artist. From the 2022 individual grant to Imani Jacqueline Brown for What remains at the ends of the earth?

Sarah Hearne | Los Angeles

Print Ready Drawings
MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles

Sophie Leddick and Edgar Orlaineta | Los Angeles and Mexico City

Sack, mask and stick
Centro Cultural La Tallera, Museo Casa-Estudio de David Alfaro Siqueiros, Cuernavaca, Mexico

Temitayo Ogunbiyi | Gwynedd, Pennsylvania

You will wonder if we would have been friends
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Long Island City, New York

Ala Tannir | New York, New York

The Small Old House by the Sea
Beirut Heritage Initiative, Beirut, Lebanon

Krista Thompson | Evanston, Illinois

Antonius Roberts: Art, Ecology, and Sacred Space
National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas

B&W photo of totem-like installations on a beach
Antonius Roberts, Sacred Space, 2006. Casuarinas rooted, various dimensions. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Roland Rose. From the 2022 individual grant to Krista Thompson for Antonius Roberts: Art, Ecology, and Sacred Space

Film Video and New Media Projects

saay/yaas: Anna Nnenna Abengowe, Patricia Anahory, and Mawena Yehouessi | Abuja, Nigeria; New York, New York; Paris; Praia, Cabo Verde

her(e), otherwise

Helene Kazan | London

Frame of Accountability

Laila Kazmi | Elk Grove, California

Reaching New Heights: Fazlur Rahman Khan and The Skyscraper

Catalina Mejía Moreno and Huda Tayob | Cape Town, South Africa; Hove, United Kingdom

Architectures of the South: Bruising, Remembering, Repairing

Mona Minkara | Boston

Planes, Trains, and Canes

Publications

Emanuel Admassu and Anita N. Bateman | Houston and New York, New York

Where is Africa (Center for Art, Research and Alliances)

Ashley Bigham | Columbus, Ohio

Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire (Applied Research + Design Publishing)

Marshall Brown | Princeton, New Jersey

The Architecture of Collage (Park Books/Santa Barbara Museum of Art)

an architectural collage
Marshall Brown, The Principle of Inconsistency, 2019. Photo collage on paper, 17.5 x 23 in. Private collection, Chicago. From the 2022 individual grant to Marshall Brown for The Architecture of Collage

Louise Emily Carver and Angela Rui | Berlin and Milan

Aquaria. Or the Illusion of a Boxed Sea (Humboldt Books)

Jean-Louis Cohen | New York, New York

Russia’s Architecture 1861–1991: Poetics and Politics (MIT Press)

example of soviet architecture
Mark Felger, Samuil Kravets, and Sergei Serafimov, Gosprom building, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1928. Photo: Jean-Louis Cohen, 2021. From the 2022 individual grant to Jean-Louis Cohen for Russia’s Architecture 1861–1991: Poetics and Politics

Gustavo Diéguez, Felipe Mesa, and Ana Valderrama | Buenos Aires; Champaign, Illinois; and Phoenix

Design-Build Studios in Latin America: Teaching through a Social Agenda (ORO Editions)

Student Shelter, PAAF Studio (Programa Académico de Asistencia Federal), project: Borrachia (thesis director), and students, Alvarez, Brautigam, Guerra, Iannaci, Lagues, Pinheiro, Tomalino, Velazquez, Escuela Superior de Arquitectura y Diseño, Universidad de Morón, 2017 (Design-Build studio project in San Miguel de los Colorados, Jujuy, Argentina). Photo: UM ESAD. From the 2022 individual grant to Gustavo Diéguez, Felipe Mesa and Ana Valderrama for Design-Build Studios in Latin America: Teaching through a Social Agenda

Chris Dingwall, David Hartt, and Daniel Schulman | Chicago; Hamtramck, Michigan; and Philadelphia

Black Designers in Chicago (University of Chicago Press)

David Escudero | Madrid

Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy (Routledge)

Oxana Gourinovitch | Berlin

National Theatre: Architecture of Soviet Modernism and Nation Building (Spector Books)

Freyja Hartzell | New York, New York

Richard Riemerschmid’s Extraordinary Living Things (MIT Press)

Renata Hejduk, Steven Hillyer, Kim Shkapich, and Jim Williamson | Lubbock, Texas; New York, New York; Scottsdale, Arizona; and Wellfleet, Massachusetts

The Ethical Mirror: Architecture, Dissidence, and the Radical Imagination (The Cooper Union/Czech Technical University)

a black and white photo of construction on a czech memorial
Jan Palach Memorial under construction on the grounds of Prague Castle, 1991. Courtesy The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive, The Cooper Union. Photo: Jaroslav Zastoupil. From the 2022 individual grant to Renata Hejduk, Steven Hillyer, Kim Shkapich, and Jim Williamson for The Ethical Mirror: Architecture, Dissidence, and the Radical Imagination

Blair Kamin and Lee Bey | Chicago

Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago (University of Chicago Press)

Pamela Karimi | New Bedford, Massachusetts

Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice (Stanford University Press)

Indra Kagis McEwen | Montreal

All the King’s Horses: Vitruvius in an Age of Princes (MIT Press)

Marina Otero Verzier | Rotterdam

Evanescent Institutions: On the Politics of Temporary Architecture (Puente Editores)

Adair Rounthwaite | Seattle

This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb (University of Minnesota Press)

Ozayr Saloojee and Jamie Vanucchi | Ithaca, New York, and Ottawa

Design Research for Uncertain Futures (ORO Editions)

Joel Sanders | New York, New York

Stalled!: Inclusive Public Restrooms (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City)

Robin Schuldenfrei | London

Objects in Exile: Modernism across Borders, 1930–1960 (Princeton University Press)

Mark Shepard | Buffalo, New York

There Are No Facts: Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life (MIT Press)

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi | New York, New York

Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press)

a makeshift shelter in the desert
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Shop, Ifo camp, Dadaab, Kenya, 2011. Courtesy the author. From the 2022 individual grant to Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi for Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement

Susan Slyomovics | Los Angeles

Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage (Stanford University Press)

Gregor Stemmrich | Abu Dhabi

Dan Graham—Some Rockin’ (Sternberg Press)

Jo-ey Tang | San Francisco

arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified (Dancing Foxes Press)

André Tavares | Porto, Portugal

Architecture Follows Fish (MIT Press)

Beth Weinstein | Tucson, Arizona

Architecture + Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space, and Time (Routledge)

Research

Riff Studio: Rekha Auguste-Nelson, Farnoosh Rafaie, and Isabel Strauss | Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York, New York; and Northridge, California

Architecture of Reparations—Case Study House

Michelle Barrett and Chris Daemmrich | Kansas City, Missouri, and New Orleans

Emergent Grounds for Design Education

Kimberly Juanita Brown | Manchester, Connecticut

Black Elegies

Fernanda Canales | Mexico City

If Women Made Cities: Expanding Coexistence

Dane Carlson, Sonam Lama, and Yungdrung Tsewang | Elsah, Illinois; Jomsom and Kathmandu, Nepal

Landscape is Change: Doing the Work of Making Landscape across Time

Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Mengfan Wang, and Chen Zhan | Beijing and London

Ripple Ripple Rippling

Tonia Sing Chi | Oakland, California

Storytelling Spaces of Solidarity in the Asian Diaspora

Coleman Collins | New York, New York

The (De)Ontological Oblique

an architectural collage
Coleman Collins l’oblique ontologique deux, 2022. Digital collage with images from La Camp de la Lande (La Jungle in Calais), France. Courtesy the artist. From the 2022 individual grant to Coleman Collins for The (De)Ontological Oblique

Sharmyn Cruz Rivera and Danny Giles | Rotterdam

Josephine’s

Aria Dean | New York, New York

Abattoir, U.S.A!

Marco Ferrari and Elise Misao Hunchuck | Milan

Sky River

view of a planet from afar
Marco Ferrari, The water vapor and aerosols [airborne particles of dust, soot, mold, and bacteria] of Earth’s third atmosphere-ocean environment, 2021. Courtesy the artist. From the 2022 individual grant to Marco Ferrari and Elise Misao Hunchuck for Sky River

Joseph Giovannini | New York, New York

Zaha: A Biography

Joseph R. Hartman | San Juan, Puerto Rico

Eye of the Hurricane: Politics of Art, Architecture, and Climate in the Modern Caribbean

Sara Hendren | Cambridge, Massachusetts

The “Ideas Team” at Cherry Road: Day Centers, Cognitive Disability, and Reimagining the Art Therapy Encounter

Kelley Lemon | Champaign, Illinois

Connections through the Black Agricultural Landscape

Nifemi Marcus-Bello | Lagos, Nigeria

Africa—A Design Utopia

Sonal Mithal and Arul Paul | Ahmedabad and Mangalore, India

Queering Nawabi Lucknow: Architecture and the Colonial Archive

Dahlia Nduom | Washington, D.C.

Tourism, Tropicalization and the Architectural Image

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