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Graham Foundation Grants 2021: architecture

Graham Foundation 2021 Grants, Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts USA, Individuals

Graham Foundation Grants 2021

Funding for individuals and organizations in the Fine Arts, USA

post updated June 2, 2021

Graham Foundation 2021 News

Graham Foundation Announces 2021 Grants to Individuals

$585,000 awarded to individuals exploring innovative design ideas that expand contemporary understanding of architecture in the context of this transformative year

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 71 new grants to individuals worldwide that support projects on architecture. Grantee projects represent diverse lines of inquiry engaging original ideas that advance our understanding of the designed environment. Selected from nearly 700 proposals, the funded projects include research, exhibitions, publications, films, digital initiatives, and other inventive formats that promote rigorous scholarship, stimulate experimentation, and foster critical discourse in architecture.

“This year, as the pandemic forced communities, cities, and countries to close down, the inequities of design and the built environment only intensified,” said Graham Foundation director Sarah Herda. “Through this dynamic grantee cohort, the Graham continues its 65-year commitment to supporting individuals to realize ideas that have the power to change the field of architecture.”

The individuals leading these projects are based in cities such as Ahmedabad, India; Milan, Italy; Mexico City, Mexico; Durban, South Africa; and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Projects focus on locations such as Accra, Ghana; Caracas, Venezuela; Knoxville, TN; and Chicago, IL where the Graham Foundation is based. The innovative projects are led by eminent and emerging architects, artists, curators, filmmakers, historians, and photographers, among other professionals. The 2021 Grantees projects represent a broad range of disciplines:

Historian Shantel Blakely looks at the living legacy of under recognized Black architect Charles E. Fleming (b. 1937) and his prolific practice, concentrating on his work in the St. Louis, MO area

In the book Green Obsession, Milan-based architect Stefano Boeri and his studio sound a call to action to the field around climate change

Amaxiwa | Embodied Archives brings to life architectural histories at heritage sites across Africa, led by Russel Hlongwane and Sumayya Vally—who was included on the 2021 TIME100 Next list of emerging leaders

The exhibition deposition by artists Marissa Lee Benedict, Daniel de Paula, and David Rueter, transports and transforms the last pit floor from the Chicago Board of Trade to Oscar Niemeyer’s Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion for the 2021 São Paulo Biennial

The new grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 65 years. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than $41 million dollars in direct support to over 4,800 projects by individuals and organizations.

The complete list of the 2021 individual grantees follows. Please find descriptions of the awarded projects beginning on page 3. To learn more about the new grants, click on any grantee name below to visit their online project page, or go to grahamfoundation.org/grantees.

LIST OF 2021 INDIVIDUAL GRANTEES (71 awards)

EXHIBITIONS (12)

Juliana Rowen Barton, Michelle Millar Fisher, Zoë Greggs, Gabriella Nelson, and Amber Winick

Marissa Lee Benedict, Daniel de Paula, and David Rueter

Parsons & Charlesworth: Jessica Charlesworth and Tim Parsons

Stanley Cho, Elisa Iturbe, and Alican Taylan

Gabriel Cira and James Heard

Felecia Davis, Marcella Del Signore, Sheryl Tucker de Vazquez, and William D. Williams

Kevin Hernandez-Rosa, Nicholas Serrambana, Arien Wilkerson, and Marisa Williamson

Sean Lally

Farzin Lotfi-Jam and Mark Wasiuta

Vernelle A. A. Noel

Constance Owl

Kelly Walters

FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA (10)

Can Altay

Adil Dalbai and Livingstone Mukasa

Russel Hlongwane and Sumayya Vally

Brockett Horne, Briar Levit, and Louise Sandhaus

David Huber

John Lin

Sharon Lockhart

Jamila Moore Pewu

Regner Ramos and Kleanthis Kyriakou

Fred Scharmen

PUBLIC PROGRAMS (1)

Elisa Silva

PUBLICATIONS (24)

Noam Andrews

Pierre Bélanger and Pablo Escudero

Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Mark El-khatib, and Bushra Mohamed

Stefano Boeri Architetti: Stefano Boeri, Fiamma Invernizzi, Maria Lucrezia de Marco, Simone Marchetti, Sofia Paoli, Maria Chiara Pastore, Luis Pimentel, and Livia Shamir

Susan Buck-Morss, Kevin McCaughey, and Adam Michaels

Susana Caló and Godofredo Pereira

Anthony Carfello

Katherine L. Carroll

Peter H. Christensen

Patricio del Real

Gareth Doherty

Giulia Foscari

Pedro Gadanho

Kersten Geers, Stefano Graziani, Joris Kritis, and Jelena Pancevac

Vanessa Grossman

Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi Segal

Tim Johnson

Steffen Kunkel

Paulo Moreira

Adriana Salazar

David Schalliol

Mindy Seu

Pier Paolo Tamburelli

Marc Treib

RESEARCH PROJECTS (24)

Anahi Alviso-Marino and Neïl Beloufa

Adjoa Armah

Shantel Blakely

Jerald “Coop” Cooper

Felicia Francine Dean

Farhana Ferdous

Gabriel Fuentes

Meredith J. Gaglio

James Graham

Sara Jacobs

Ishita Jain and Ankita Trivedi

Theodore S. Jojola and Lynn Paxson

Ladi’Sasha Jones

Elizabeth M. Keslacy

Wanda Katja Liebermann

Thandi Loewenson

Joanna Merwood-Salisbury

Joe Namy

Enrique Ramirez

F. Tierney

Nick Tobier

Amanda Russhell Wallace

Charisse Pearlina Weston

Kiyan Williams

DESCRIPTIONS OF AWARDED PROJECTS—2021 GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS

EXHIBITIONS (12 awards)

Juliana Rowen Barton, Michelle Millar Fisher, Zoë Greggs, Gabriella Nelson, and Amber Winick Croton on Hudson, NY; Edgartown, MA; Philadelphia, PA; and Providence, RI

Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births Center for Architecture and Design, Philadelphia, PA A first-of-its-kind exploration—realized through several partnerships across the Philadelphia area—of the arc of human reproduction through the lens of architecture and design.

Marissa Lee Benedict, Daniel de Paula, and David Rueter Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Ann Arbor, MI deposition

34th Bienal de São Paulo, Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil Deposing violent power dynamics that shape global space, this exhibition relocates an obsolete seven-tier commodity trading pit floor from the grain room of the Chicago Board of Trade to the center of Oscar Niemeyer’s Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion for the 2021 São Paulo Biennial.

Parsons & Charlesworth: Jessica Charlesworth and Tim Parsons Chicago, IL Catalog for the Post-Human

17th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy

Presenting a satirical collection of sculptural works and animations that provoke conversations about the impact of surveillance and human enhancement technologies upon an increasingly contingent workforce, this iteration of the installation by the same name is presented at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Stanley Cho, Elisa Iturbe, and Alican Taylan New York, NY Confronting Carbon Form

Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY This exhibition looks at the climate crisis through the lens of space and form—artifacts from the scale of the city to that of household objects are considered in relation to the energy paradigm that has given them form to shed light on the spatial and cultural foundations that confront architecture’s central role in the formation of carbon modernity.

Gabriel Cira and James Heard Cambridge and Somerville, MA The Architects Collaborative 1945–1995: Tracing a Diffuse Architectural Authorship

pinkcomma gallery, Boston, MA An exhibition and accompanying digital wiki tool that documents, maps, and contextualizes the vast output of The Architects Collaborative—a Massachusetts firm founded by Walter Gropius and seven other equal partners—that normalized postwar American vernacular modernism for mass society and, over the course of its 50-year history, mainstreamed the corporate model of architectural practice.

Felecia Davis, Marcella Del Signore, Sheryl Tucker de Vazquez, and William D. Williams Cincinnati, OH; Houston, TX; New York, NY; and University Park, PA Hair Salon: Translating Black Hair Practices for Architecture Using Computational Methods

University of Houston College of Architecture and Design, Houston, TX This exhibition looks to natural Black hair texture and maintenance practices to generate novel building materials and architectural structures using computational design processes in an exploration of Blackness as an intellectual and aesthetic force in American cultural and built landscapes.

Kevin Hernandez-Rosa, Nicholas Serrambana, Arien Wilkerson, and Marisa Williamson New Haven, CT; Philadelphia, PA; and South Orange, NJ Vault

Keney Park Sustainability Project, Windsor, CT An interdisciplinary and collaborative space-making project that transforms a shuttered public school in the North End of Hartford, CT into an outdoor exhibition space through dance, performance, and monumental public art.

Sean Lally Lausanne, Switzerland Shaped Touches

17th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy

This full-scale installation at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale takes the form of a multi-player video game platform to explore the relationships between architecture, people, and communities, to illustrate opportunities and implications for urban public space.

Farzin Lotfi-Jam and Mark Wasiuta New York, NY The Machine at the Heart of Man: Doxiadis’ Informational Modernism

Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece A study of the Doxiadis Associates Computer Center in Greece, its role in the formation of Doxiadis’ informational modernism, and its importance for the consolidation of the tools and techniques that have evolved into our era’s computational urbanism.

Vernelle A. A. Noel Gainesville, FL Design and Making in the Trinidad Carnival: Histories, Re-imaginations, and Speculations of Computational Design Futures University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Showcasing previously unseen photographs of making practices and dancing sculptures in the Trinidad Carnival between the 1940s and 1960s, as well as new, reimagined, physical and digital artifacts, drawings, and architecture based on the traditional carnival craft of wire-bending, this exhibition illustrates how computing can remediate and reconfigure dying crafts for new design pedagogy, practices, and architecture.

Constance Owl Palo Alto, CA ᎠᏂᎩᏚᏩᎩ / Anigaduwagi / People of Creator’s Land

David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, CA

Mountain Heritage Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC Through an indigenous reading of historic maps and settlement patterns, the exhibition explores Cherokee strategies of placemaking and how notions of sacred stewardship, belonging, community, and language have been used in the creation and reclamation of Cherokee spaces.

Kelly Walters New York, NY With a Cast of Colored Stars

Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York, NY This exhibition examines visual representations of Black identity found in the print design of African American cinema, television, and music.

FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA (10 awards)

Can Altay Istanbul, Turkey Ahali Conversations with Can Altay: A Podcast on the Future of Cultural Production and its Spaces (Season 3) A podcast series that investigates current and critical matters regarding cultural production, focusing on how cultural practice and institutions position themselves, form communities, and generate spaces—especially with respect to contemporary art, design, and architecture in the twenty-first century.

Adil Dalbai and Livingstone Mukasa Berlin, Germany and Rensselaer, NY Africa Architecture Network This project establishes an online community of practice—composed of researchers and architects who are passionate about architecture in Africa—building from the more than 300 authors who collaborated to develop the first comprehensive architectural guide to sub-Saharan architecture, aiming to increase visibility to the continent’s built environment and enable exchange among practitioners, scholars, and others.

Russel Hlongwane and Sumayya Vally Durban and Pretoria, South Africa Amaxiwa | Embodied Archives Working from the idea that sites of memory are sites of imagination, this project takes the form of a set of speculative histories and archaeologies on sites in Benin; Senegal; Accra, Ghana; and Zimbabwe, to counter otherwise erased, silenced, or invisible architectural histories and imaginaries.

Brockett Horne, Briar Levit, and Louise Sandhaus Baltimore, MD; Ojai, CA; and Portland, OR The People’s Graphic Design Archive A crowd-sourced virtual archive of graphic design history built by everyone, about everyone, for everyone.

David Huber Urbana, IL Entangled: Shorelines An open-access educational podcast series that explores historical and contemporary entanglements between design, environment, technology, infrastructure, and urbanism by focusing on distinct conceptualizations of the shoreline across Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.

John Lin

Hong Kong

Renovation Toolbox : A guided tour of innovative houses by self-builders in rural China

The project develops a series of films corresponding to four vernacular housing typologies, bringing into critical focus the adaptation of traditional houses in rural China.

Sharon Lockhart Los Angeles, CA Baumettes Led by the voices of female inmates in Baumettes prison in Marseille, France, this film, named for the prison, is a meditation on the effects of carceral architecture and isolation, and how a diverse group of individuals cope and find agency behind prison walls.

Jamila Moore Pewu Fullerton, CA Art of the Matter This project documents, preserves, and critically engages the spatial narratives and public art practices that emerged during the 2020 protest for Black lives and racial justice by capturing both artworks and streetscapes in a crowdsourced, deep mapping application and discovery platform.

Regner Ramos and Kleanthis Kyriakou London, United Kingdom and San Juan, Puerto Rico Coloso: A Factory of Queer, Digital Monuments for Puerto Rico A web-based, virtual factory that produces digital monuments commemorating closed LGBTQ+ spaces and buildings in Puerto Rico, thus inserting them in the island’s architectural history, its cultural infrastructure, urban memory, and political future.

Fred Scharmen Baltimore, MD How to Make and Un-Make a World; an Incomplete Catalog of Questions and Answers Italian Virtual Pavilion, 17th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy

Produced as part of City X by curators Tom Kovac and Alessandro Melis, and creative director Ed Keller for the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, this piece—equal parts text manifesto and animated object lesson—distills knowns and unknowns about world-making as a practice.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS (1 award)

Elisa Silva Caracas, Venezuela Nothing Out of the Ordinary: a space for the arts, celebration, acknowledgement and sancocho in the barrio La Palomera

Based in Caracas, Venezuela, this program engages the community to collaborate on renovating an abandoned structure, using art, culture, and events to guide the transformation.

PUBLICATIONS (24 awards)

Noam Andrews Ghent, Belgium The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century

(MIT Press) Told through the transformation of the Platonic solids in the hands of late Renaissance artisans and architects, this book offers a material history of the development of geometry in the early modern period.

Pierre Bélanger and Pablo Escudero Cambridge, MA and Quito, Ecuador The Quino Treaty: Renewing Territorial Relations with the Cinchona Plant at the Center of the World by Decolonizing Quinine and the Global Discourse on Conservation

(ORO Editions) This book charts the 497-year global, urban, history of the cinchona plant from South America, whose bark offers a key contribution to contemporary civilization as it contains the only known cure for malaria: the drug quinine.

Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Mark El-khatib, and Bushra Mohamed London, United Kingdom The Course of Empire: A Compound House Typology

(Register Research Group) A book documenting the development of the Ghanaian compound house, from traditional types—such as Kumasi Shrine House—to modern iterations found in urban centers.

Stefano Boeri Architetti: Stefano Boeri, Fiamma Invernizzi, Maria Lucrezia de Marco, Simone Marchetti, Sofia Paoli, Maria Chiara Pastore, Luis Pimentel, and Livia Shamir Milan, Italy Green Obsession

(Actar Publishers) This publication on the work of architect Stefano Boeri and his studio, Stefano Boeri Architetti, puts forth an urgent call to action to the field to fundamentally address climate change through design.

Susan Buck-Morss, Kevin McCaughey, and Adam Michaels Ithaca and Ridgewood, NY; Los Angeles, CA

Architectures of Thought: Imagining Philosophy / Not Philosophizing Images

(Inventory Press) By studying and enacting the principles of montage, this project offers a means of thinking through how images and ideas work in today’s hyper-visual landscape.

Susana Caló and Godofredo Pereira London, United Kingdom CERFI: Militant Analysis, Institutional Programming and Collective Equipment

(Het Nieuwe Instituut) The first publication on the legacy of the collective CERFI in France (1967–85) and its experimental work on the institutional programming of collective equipment.

Anthony Carfello Los Angeles, CA La città capitalista (The Capitalist City)

(Skira Editore) Italian architect Giovanni Brino’s little-known 1978 survey of Los Angeles architecture, advertising, and lifestyle, published for the first time in English.

Katherine L. Carroll Delmar, NY Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician

(University of Pittsburgh Press) A timely investigation of early twentieth-century American medical schools, this book argues that medical educators, donors—namely John D. Rockefeller’s General Education Board—and architects—including Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge—called on architecture to define science; promote modern medicine; and institutionalize professional identities, which intersected with constructions of race and gender.

Peter H. Christensen Rochester, NY Materialized: German Steel in Global Ecology

(Penn State University Press) Linking architectural history and critical ecological studies, this new study provides a touchstone in a material-centered approach to the history of architecture.

Patricio del Real Cambridge, MA Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art

(Yale University Press) Through examination of select architecture exhibitions in the first half of the twentieth century, this book presents how The Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Architecture and Design constructed an image of the world to manage the American Century.

Gareth Doherty Cambridge, MA Landscape Fieldwork

(University of Virginia Press) This book provides insights for understanding and designing landscapes based on experiential knowledge gained from landscape fieldwork.

Giulia Foscari Hamburg, Germany Antarctic Resolution

(Lars Müller Publishers)

A transnational and cross-disciplinary project that presents critical research on Antarctic geopolitics, science, and architecture, conceived to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the first sighting of the continent in 2020.

Pedro Gadanho Lisbon, Portugal Climax Change! Architecture’s Paradigm Shift After the Ecological Crisis

(Actar Publishers) An overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency affects the practice of architecture—in terms of direct impact on design philosophy and on the opportunities to transform the course of the discipline’s aesthetic, ethical, and professional principles.

Kersten Geers, Stefano Graziani, Joris Kritis, and Jelena Pancevac Brussels, Belgium; Paris, France; and Trieste, Italy The Urban Fact: A Reference Book on Aldo Rossi

(Buchhandlung Walther König) A collection of projects by Aldo Rossi from the 1960s and 1970s that suggests that each project reflects the broader context of the architecture of the city itself.

Vanessa Grossman Delft, the Netherlands A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France

(Yale University Press) An examination of the remarkable flurry of architectural activity that resulted when the French Communist Party (PCF)—one of the foremost Western communist parties of the twentieth century—became a patron for the designs, discourses, and organizational efforts of a distinguished circle of French modern architects, which found their most fertile terrain in the banlieue, the formerly industrial peripheries of France’s major cities.

Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi Segal Brookline, MA and New York, NY What is Ours: Art and Architecture Towards Mutualism

(Columbia University Press) An anthology of conversations with leading thinkers, designers, entrepreneurs, and activists whose perspectives on collectivism and mutualism engender communal self-determination, wealth, and well-being.

Tim Johnson Marfa, TX Al Rio/To the River

(Hatje Cantz)

Conceived and edited by the poet Tim Johnson, this collaborative publication comprises two artists’ books—a photographic volume featuring recent works by the artist Zoe Leonard; and a reader with contributions by artists, journalists, poets and historians, including C.J. Alvarez, Ariella Azoulay, Cecilia Ballí, Remijio “Primo” Carrasco, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Natalie Diaz, Dolores Dorantes, Darby English, Álvaro Enrigue, Catherine Facerias, Josh T. Franco, Esther Gabara, Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Elisabeth Lebovici, Jose Rabasa, Nadiah Rivera Fellah, Cameron Rowland, and Roberto Tejada.

Steffen Kunkel Wiesthal, Germany Gottfried Böhm and the Pilgrimage Church Mary, Queen of Peace

(Spector Books) Based on several years of research, this richly illustrated book is the first in-depth study of the pilgrimage district of Mary, Queen of Peace—by German Pritzker Prize Laureate Gottfried Böhm—and features a plethora of previously unpublished drawings, photos, models and archival material as well as in-depth interviews with Böhm and project-related architects and collaborators.

Paulo Moreira Porto, Portugal Critical Neighborhoods: The Architecture of Contested Communities

(Park Books) This book explores informal architecture and urbanism, analyzing recent actions in Africa, Asia, and the United States with contributions by Matthew Barac, Julia King, Elisa Silva, AbdouMaliq Simone, and Ines Weizman.

Adriana Salazar Mexico City, Mexico Water Spells

(Pitzilein Books) This project gathers a diverse range of voices which reveal the entangled relations between humans, water, and the built environment within the context of Mexico City today.

David Schalliol Minneapolis, MN Social Landscapes

(MAS Context) Drawing from two decades of globe-spanning photographic projects, this book articulates a visual sociological perspective on the relationship between people and place—from how inequality manifests in the vernacular architecture of the Midwestern United States, to how social and environmental changes interplay to radically reshape Japan’s Tōhoku coast.

Mindy Seu New York, NY Cyberfeminism Catalog

(Inventory Press) This sourcebook of radical techno-critical activism from 1990–2020 gathers hackers, scholars, artists, and activists that reimagine the history of the internet and guide its future.

Pier Paolo Tamburelli Milan, Italy On Bramante: Forty-three Theses

(MIT Press) A book on contemporary architecture comprised of 43 theses on the work of Italian architect Donato Bramante (1444–1514).

Marc Treib Berkeley, CA The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design

(ORO Editions) An international survey of the understudied subject of planting design aesthetics in contemporary landscape architecture.

RESEARCH (24 awards)

Anahi Alviso-Marino and Neïl Beloufa Paris, France Monument Stories: Cities of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula through Monument Biographies This project establishes an interactive website, featuring a multimedia map of the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf cities, that charts monuments from the 1970s until present day that were designed to embellish public space and commemorate events and political figures.

Adjoa Armah Cape Coast, Ghana and London, United Kingdom In our language the word for the sea means “the spirit that returns” An illumination of the cartographies of African spiritual life, geographic articulations, and spatial consciousnesses through the forts that dot the Ghanaian coast.

Shantel Blakely St. Louis, MO Charles E. Fleming, Architect Photographic documentation of the built architectural works of Charles E. Fleming, focusing on projects in the St. Louis area—including houses, schools, dormitories, health clinics, and several park and recreation areas, including a velodrome.

Jerald “Coop” Cooper Cincinnati, OH Architectures of Abolition Using the Underground Railroad networks of Ohio as an anchor for contemporary conversations in defense of Black lives, this exhibition delves into the events, people, and places of the mid-nineteenth century escape routes to situate the built environment as a matter of life and death.

Felicia Francine Dean Knoxville, TN

Perception of Misconceptions: Intersecting Stone and Fabric Material Identities A study of the transference of biracial identity, and the intrinsic methods of self-discovery, to the intersections of stone and fabric’s architectural material identities—at a furniture scale—based on the vernacular of Gramollazzo, Italy and Knoxville, TN.

Farhana Ferdous

Washington, DC The (pathogenic)-CITY: A Segregated Landscape of Urbanization, Urbanicity, and Wellbeing in American Landscape (the 1900s to present) A chronological history of racial disparities in American landscape that argues how urbanization and planning movements have transformed minority health and well-being from post-industrial society to the present.

Gabriel Fuentes

Union, NJ White Gold / Black Energy: Architecture, Sugar, and Oil During Revolutionary Cuba’s Gray Period The study of Cuban revolutionary architecture and its entanglement with colonial histories of slavery and global histories of energy during the Gray Period—during which Cuba strengthened geopolitical and ideological ties with the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

Meredith J. Gaglio

Baton Rouge, LA Life Arks: Science, Spirituality, and Survival in the Work of the New Alchemy Institute This project considers the ways in which members of the 1970s experimental collective, the New Alchemy Institute, integrated scientific innovation, mysticism, and left-libertarian values into their sustainable bioshelter designs.

James Graham Alameda, CA The Household Modernism of Paulette Bernège Research on the French journalist and activist Paulette Bernège (1896–1973), whose writings offer a vision of architectural modernism centered on women’s work.

Sara Jacobs

Vancouver, Canada

Landscapes of Racial Formation: Warren Manning in Atlanta, Georgia and Birmingham, Alabama

This research examines how landscape architect Warren Manning’s white supremacist atlas A National Plan (1919) reified racial formation in Birmingham and Atlanta through city plans implemented by Manning for those cities in 1919 and 1922, respectively—illuminating how racialized spatial logics are enacted through the making of urban space.

Ishita Jain and Ankita Trivedi

Ahmedabad and Sonipat, India Sites of Indie-Futurisms: Traditional Board Games of India Work towards an illustrated scholarly monograph using speculative world-building to catalogue traditional Indian board games as enmeshed ecologies of sites of production, sites of participation, and sites of generation of multiple Indie-futurisms.

Theodore S. Jojola and Lynn Paxson

Albuquerque, NM and Ames, IA Contemporary Indigenous Architecture–The Pueblo Worldview Expansion of the discussion and scholarship of what is ordinarily seen as architecture stuck in prehistory, to the contemporary and transformational.

Ladi’Sasha Jones

New York, NY Black Interior Spatial Thought Both a text and sculptural system that proposes a geometric typology towards Black interior spatial conditions—the communal, private, and performative—and the everyday movements in sociocultural production.

Elizabeth M. Keslacy

Oxford, OH Concrete Leisure: Design and Public Space in the Wake of Urban Renewal

An exploration of post-urban renewal landscapes of public leisure in the American Midwest, built under their cities’ first Black mayors, that examines the agency and limitations of architecture to combat the urban crises of late twentieth century American cities.

Wanda Katja Liebermann

Oakland Park, FL Architecture’s Problem with Disability

The first scholarly monograph to critically analyze the complex relationship between architecture and disability rights in the United States across pedagogy, policy, and practice in order to understand the discipline’s narrow response to disabled access, and to explore creative alternatives.

Thandi Loewenson

London, United Kingdom Lumumba in Space: African Space Programs and the Project of Liberation Culminating in a series of performance lectures addressed to the United Nations’ Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, this project investigates the role of Space Programs in the struggles for liberation from colonialism in six African countries—from late 1950s to present day—towards developing an understanding of how these programs contribute to emancipated constructions of Black self, Black statecraft, and Black people in relation to Earth and its resources.

Joanna Merwood-Salisbury

Wellington, New Zealand Veblen’s Chicago: The Urban Origins of the Leisure Class

Although acknowledged as influential, the Chicago economist Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) remains a spectral presence in the historiography of modern architecture—this research situates Veblen’s work in the urban and intellectual context in which it was written and investigates its value for architectural history and theory into the twentieth century.

Joe Namy

London, United Kingdom Songs for a Set Research exploring the extended archives of Arab American composer Halim El Dabh (1921–2017), also known as the godfather of African electronic music, and the impact of architecture on his oeuvre.

Enrique Ramirez

New York, NY Lines of Least Resistance: Architecture, Aeronautics, and Other Airs of Modernity A study of how architectural and aeronautical cultures in eighteenth and nineteenth century France relied on line-making and line-drawing to construct new, modernized ideas about air and the natural environment.

F. Tierney Berkeley, CA Racializing Risk: The History of Ladera Housing Cooperative Ladera Housing Cooperative, a postwar interracial housing cooperative in Portola, California, provides a compelling look at 1940s housing policies, exposing cultural norms of race in state lending structures.

Nick Tobier

Ann Arbor, MI Small(er) Building Types An illustrated compendium of vernacular buildings—such as bodegas or gas stations—accompanied by interviews and writings that meditate on the typology and role of these buildings in daily life.

Amanda Russhell Wallace

New London, CT The East Texas Oilfield as an Architecture of Memento Mori This project proposes an alternative to the narrative of the early twentieth century Great Migration by conflating the open and expansive architectural structures of the East Texas oilfield and the often secluded, rural cemeteries as a point of departure for a multimedia installation.

Charisse Pearlina Weston

New York, NY (Riot) Through: The Fold, The Shatter Linking the use of glass as a material representation of power and simulated intimacy in architecture with the long history of anti-Black violence, surveillance, and policing—reified by the “Broken Window Theory”—and media representations of resistance to that violence, this project utilizes folded glass sculptures and concrete architectural forms to put pressure on anti-Black protocols and politics of movement, sight, and being seen.

Kiyan Williams

New York, NY Unearthing: Toward a Black Feminist Ecology in Contemporary Earth Art In this text, the creative practice of Kiyan Williams is connected to a tradition of practitioners who use soil as a material and metaphor to unearth decolonial histories and fugitive futures.

ABOUT THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION

Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations, and by producing exhibitions, events and publications.

The Graham Foundation was created by a bequest from Ernest R. Graham (1866–1936), a prominent Chicago architect and protégé of Daniel Burnham.

UPCOMING GRANT APPLICATION DEADLINES

2022 Grants to Individuals inquiry form deadline: September 15, 2021

Application available: July 15, 2021

2022 Carter Manny Award: November 15, 2021

Application available: September 15, 2021

Buildings funded by Graham Foundation Grants 2021

– Gottfried Böhm, The Pilgrimage Church Mary Queen of Peace, 1963–72. photo : Steffen Kunkel, 2015

From the 2021 individual grant to Steffen Kunkel for Gottfried Böhm and the Pilgrimage Church Mary, Queen of Peace

– Elizabeth Suina (Cochiti) of Suina Design + Architecture (Formerly Garret Smith Ltd), Valle Vista Elementary School, Albuquerque, New Mexico. photo : Courtesy Suina Design + Architecture

From the 2021 individual grant to Theodore S. Jojola and Lynn Paxson for Contemporary Indigenous Architecture–The Pueblo Worldview

– David Schalliol, Stateway Gardens (Chicago, Illinois, USA), 2007. Photo: David Schalliol

From the 2021 individual grant to David Schalliol for Social Landscapes

Adriana Salazar, View of River La Compañía, Chalco Valley, Mexico, 2019. Photo: Adriana Salazar – From the 2021 individual grant to Adriana Salazar for Water Spells

– Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Baby Drawer, ca. 1950s. (A nurse tending to a sleeping infant in a mobile bassinet at a Kaiser Permanente Hospital, California, 1950s.) Courtesy Kaiser Permanente Heritage Resources From the 2021 individual grant to Juliana Rowen Barton, Michelle Millar Fisher, Zoë Greggs, Gabriella Nelson, and Amber Winick for Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births

– Atelier Masōmī and Studio Chahar, Hikma Religious and Secular Complex in Dandaji, Niger, 2018. photo : Courtesy Atelier Masōmī. Photo: James Wang From the 2021 individual grant to Adil Dalbai and Livingstone Mukasa for Africa Architecture Network

– John Lin, The Seasonal House, 2019. ShangriLa, Yunnan, China. Photo: Rural Urban Framework

From the 2021 individual grant to John Lin for Renovation Toolbox: A guided tour of innovative houses by self-builders in rural China

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This year marks the golden anniversary of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood — 50 years since the children’s TV staple was first broadcast nationally — and a flood of high-profile tributes is well underway. There’s a postage stamp commemorating Fred Rogers, the show’s affable host, a star-powered PBS special, a documentary, and coming later this year, a Rogers biography and a biopic starring Tom Hanks as Rogers.

From all these adoring tributes, it is clear that Rogers and his show are considered a national treasure. I have my own Mr. Rogers memories, including a brief personal encounter with the man that led me to reconcile the TV character with the person he really was. The reason why? Fred Rogers was my real-life neighbor.

As a kid, I never liked Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. In fact, I couldn’t stand it, especially the host, with his wimpy voice and mawkish homilies. I thought it was corny and dull, especially that tired routine of putting on his cardigan and Keds, warbling the theme song, then changing back into his suit jacket and dress shoes to close out the show. And it was so insufferably earnest, with no hint of flash or slyness, qualities that were abundant in Sesame Street and The Electric Company, which I much preferred.

Maybe the reason I found Mr. Rogers so unbearable was because his trademark solicitude toward children seemed fake to me. His whole approach just didn’t jibe with the reality I knew at home, or anywhere else for that matter. The parents of my generation — who themselves were raised under such notions as “children should be seen and not heard” — simply weren’t as involved or interested in the everyday reality of their children’s lives. We were told, or simply expected, to go play in the streets.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was produced in my hometown Pittsburgh, which gave the show an outsized presence there. Some of the cast members were local celebrities: Don Brockett, who played Chef Brockett on the show, was on my paper route. He and other characters from the show appeared frequently at children’s events and charity functions. Mr. Rogers himself, as I found out one day, lived a mere two blocks from me.

I was 12 when I discovered this. It was springtime, which meant baseball and preparing for the upcoming little league season. Raising money for the team, which every player had to do, was part of this preparation — a dreaded prelude to batting practice and fielding drills.

I was soliciting donations, going door-to-door on a grand boulevard — rows of mansions with emerald lawns, right up the street from Mellon Park, the one-time estate of Andrew Mellon. It was the heart of old money Pittsburgh, yet on the day I came calling, no one seemed to have a dime to spare. One after another they turned me away from their sprawling compounds and pseudo-manors with faux-plantation facades.

I was utterly demoralized and ready to quit while also feeling a tinge of resentment toward the rich kids whose parents had taken care of their children’s donations, sparing them the humiliation of begging from strangers.

That’s when I got to Mr. Rogers’s house. I recognized him as soon as he opened the door. Though he maintained a certain formality — I was a stranger after all — he was entirely gracious and approachable. I acted, though, as if I had never seen him. I didn’t want to appear starstruck, and anyways I didn’t even like his show. Instead, I focused on the task at hand: Do not leave without something. I had to end the day with at least one donation.

After I stammered out my introduction, he invited me in and we stood in the foyer, where he heard my pitch. To my surprise, he really listened to me, asking me questions and requesting that I elaborate on some of points I was making. The entire day I had been knocking on doors, not a single person asked me why I was doing what I was doing.

Then he probed: ��I’ve heard that the parents really push the children in those leagues.” An image flashed in my head: our star pitcher’s father — a real booster for his son and the team, in the stands for every game — wearing a lavish print shirt, gold medallions, waving a cigar while he hollered at his son in the field. He was a caricature, a father living vicariously through his son’s athletic prowess.

And he wasn’t even as bad as some parents I’d heard about in other leagues who verbally assaulted coaches and umpires or berated their offspring in public. By asking me this question, Mr. Rogers showed that he knew this was a reality for many of us, and that he only wanted to support the league if he knew I was having a good experience.

“Oh no sir, not in our league,” I answered automatically. This satisfied him and he rewarded me with a dollar.

After that, I couldn’t think of Rogers as anything less than completely authentic. The compassion he had for children, the intense interest he had in their lives, which on TV seemed fake to me, was revealed in those two or three minutes of face time. Never again did I doubt whether “Mister Rogers” and the person I had met were one in the same.

Most astounding to me was the serious deliberation he gave to my request. Not for a second did I feel he was just trying to be nice or otherwise humor me, unlike the other adults I had just encountered in Mr. Rogers’s neighborhood. After running the gauntlet of their indifference, Rogers’s concern and his eagerness to engage me was a real tonic. Perhaps that’s the effect he had on children who watched his show and actually liked it.

When I got back home, I stared at the single dollar I had collected, as if in a trance. Mr. Rogers and the world I had stumbled into briefly after ringing his doorbell, the very world conjured on his show, offered a glimpse into how things could be if adults treated children with real respect.

Fred Rogers’s ethos was unlike any other: scrupulously moderate, tolerant, and anti-consumerist; driven by cutting-edge models of child development and infused with dollops of real Christian love. (Rogers was in fact an ordained Presbyterian minister.)

At the same time, his worldview was steeped in traditional values: discipline, modesty, self-control — preparing children for the real world of routine and responsibility. And he was training the parents of the future, delivering his message across the “vast wasteland” of television and directly into people’s living rooms.

Had I never met the renowned children’s TV host and educator, I might be tempted to dismiss the current wave of affection for Rogers as just so much nostalgia — for an era, and for an idea of TV, education, and civil discourse that has been effectively buried.

A lot has happened in the 50 years since Rogers’s show went national; so much atrocity has poured through the minds of successive generations. What would Rogers, a lifelong Republican who died in 2003, make of today’s experience of childhood, pocked with school shootings, social media, and a bully-like president? I’m not sure if his brand of empathy could survive this climate.

An aura of saintliness hangs over the creator of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and it’s well deserved. Time and again he landed squarely on the right side of history, actively defending everything from civil rights and the sanctity of public television to home taping television shows, a controversial issue during the VCR’s early days. Rogers defended the practice before Congress because he thought it would better enable families to watch their favorite shows together.

Whatever the form taken by his deeply held and rigorously practiced values — Christian, liberal, conservative — Rogers never preached. He never told children what to think, but tried to help them develop the tools to think for themselves.

For a long time I was dismissive of Rogers’s character on TV, But in the few minutes I spent with him he won me over entirely, giving me the rare opportunity to square the person with the persona. That was one of the side benefits of spending the formative years of my life actually living in Mr. Rogers’s neighborhood.

Adam Eisenstat is a longtime professional writer, whose work can be found at www.AdamEisenstat.com.

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