The installation view of "i believe in echoes" at the Audain Gallery from the 2023 grant to Soberscove Press for the publication "In the Horizontal Plane: taisha paggett Performance Works."
Blaine Campbell The installation view of "i believe in echoes" at the Audain Gallery from the 2023 grant to Soberscove Press for the publication "In the Horizontal Plane: taisha paggett Performance Works."

The Graham Foundation, a fine-arts nonprofit in Chicago, is known for supporting and encouraging the exchange of ideas about architecture, design, art, and culture. Earlier this year, the foundation awarded $559,100 in grants to individual creatives and makers. Now, the nonprofit is committing $501,500 to support 38 special projects from worldwide organizations that employ artists, designers, architects, educators, and archivists.

The winning projects include 14 exhibitions; two film, video, and new media projects; five public programs; 11 publications; and six student-led publications. This is a Rehearsal—the name of the Chicago Architecture Biennial's fifth edition, curated by Chicago-based arts collective Floating Museum—and Public by Design by Exhibit Columbus, a program of the Landmark Columbus Foundation in Columbus, Ohio, are two exhibitions receiving the foundation’s second round of 2023 grants. Filled with drawings, photographs, design models, and writings by Argentine architect Amancio Williams, a new publication from the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, AP205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the archive by Studio Muoto, Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen, is a grantee in the publication category. And Rethinking Architecture Education in Latin America hosted by SALAA, a Tijuana, Mexico-based nonprofit dedicated to exploring the world-making possibilities of architecture, is a public program winner that features workshops and talks on architecture education in Latin America.

To date, the Graham Foundation has awarded more than $43 million in support of over 5,000 projects by creatives, collectives, and organizations. A selection of the grantees, whose projects and works explore contemporary architectural discourse, follows below. A full list of this year’s recipients can be found on the Graham Foundation website.

Students of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Architecture, constructing a geodesic dome, under tutorage of John Lloyd and Keith Critchlow, in 1964 from the 2023 grant to Architectural Association School of Architecture for the new media project "Entangled Archive: A Digital Framework for Collecting and Sharing the Dispersed Legacy of the AA Department of Tropical Architecture"
Keith Critchlow Students of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Architecture, constructing a geodesic dome, under tutorage of John Lloyd and Keith Critchlow, in 1964 from the 2023 grant to Architectural Association School of Architecture for the new media project "Entangled Archive: A Digital Framework for Collecting and Sharing the Dispersed Legacy of the AA Department of Tropical Architecture"

Grantee: Architectural Association School of Architecture in London
Project Type: Film, Video, and New Media
Title: Entangled Archive: A Digital Framework for Collecting and Sharing the Dispersed Legacy of the AA Department of Tropical Architecture
Graham Foundation project description: This project creates an innovative digital platform which preserves and makes accessible the work of the Architectural Association’s Department of Tropical Architecture currently held in the Architectural Association Archive and the dispersed private collections of graduates throughout the Global South.

Amaza Lee Meredith Scrapbook, Azurest South negative photograph from the 2023 grant to Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation for the exhibition "Dear Mazie,"
courtesy Virginia State University Amaza Lee Meredith Scrapbook, Azurest South negative photograph from the 2023 grant to Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation for the exhibition "Dear Mazie,"

Grantee: Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation in Richmond, Va.
Project Type: Exhibition
Title: Dear Mazie,
Graham Foundation project description: This group exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU explores the legacy of groundbreaking architect, educator, and artist Amaza Lee Meredith (1895–1984) through original scholarship and commissioned work, offering a new and important lens into the creative life of a queer, Black, female artist in her home state.

A digital rendering of Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO, designed by the Public, from the 2023 grant to the Landmark Columbus Foundation for the exhibition "Public by Design."
courtesy Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO / Exhibit Columbus A digital rendering of Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO, designed by the Public, from the 2023 grant to the Landmark Columbus Foundation for the exhibition "Public by Design."

Grantee: Landmark Columbus Foundation in Columbus, Ind.
Project Type: Exhibition
Title: Public by Design, 2023 Exhibit Columbus
Graham Foundation project description: The fourth exhibition of Exhibit Columbus takes place throughout downtown Columbus, Indiana, and includes 13 temporary art, architecture, and design installations that are produced in collaboration with community partners to create meaningful connections between people and the public spaces they share.

The installation view of "i believe in echoes" at the Audain Gallery from the 2023 grant to Soberscove Press for the publication "In the Horizontal Plane: taisha paggett Performance Works."
Blaine Campbell The installation view of "i believe in echoes" at the Audain Gallery from the 2023 grant to Soberscove Press for the publication "In the Horizontal Plane: taisha paggett Performance Works."

Grantee: Soberscove Press in Chicago
Project Type: Publication
Title: In the Horizontal Plane: taisha paggett Performance Works
Graham Foundation project description: A book project by scholars Jaime Shearn Coan and Tara Aisha Willis and dance artist taisha paggett that challenges conventional modes of writing and archiving dance through a collective engagement with paggett’s oeuvre of solo and collaborative works, which reconfigure western choreographic practices through the politics of daily life.

A photograph of the model, Una nueva bóveda cáscara, from the 2023 grant to Canadian Centre for Architecture for the publication "AP205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the Archive by Studio Muoto, Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen" on Argentine architect Amancio Williams.
courtesy Graham Foundation A photograph of the model, Una nueva bóveda cáscara, from the 2023 grant to Canadian Centre for Architecture for the publication "AP205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the Archive by Studio Muoto, Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen" on Argentine architect Amancio Williams.

Grantee: Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal
Project Type: Publication
Title: AP205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the Archive by Studio Muoto, Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Graham Foundation project description: This publication presents new and expanded readings of the work of Argentinian architect Amancio Williams (1913–1989), a key figure of Modern architecture in Latin America, through the selection and interpretation of archival materials by Studio Muoto, Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen, published in separate English and Spanish editions.

Olalekan Jeyifous' Street Marsh digital collage from the 2023 grant to Art Omi for the exhibition "Olalekan Jeyifous: Even in Arcadia..."
Olalekan Jeyifous Olalekan Jeyifous' Street Marsh digital collage from the 2023 grant to Art Omi for the exhibition "Olalekan Jeyifous: Even in Arcadia..."

Grantee: Art Omi in Ghent, N.Y.
Project Type: Exhibition
Title: Olalekan Jeyifous: Even in Arcadia...
Graham Foundation project description: This solo presentation of work by Olalekan Jeyifous draws inspiration from the idyllic Arcadian myth to explore the tensions and harmonies of a present-day protopia, situated in urban spaces undergoing speculative, eco-futurist rewilding.