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The Graham Foundation announces its 2021 organizational grantees

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The Graham Foundation announces its 2021 organizational grantees

Heather Hart, Oracular Rooftops (Believe, Stop), 2014. Etching, aquatint, embossment, and chine collé on paper, 15 x 11 inches each. Courtesy the artist and Davidson Gallery. From the 2021 organizational grant to the University at Buffalo Art Galleries for Heather Hart: Afrotecture (Re)Collection

Following June’s announcement of the Graham Foundation’s 2021 individual grant recipients, the 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,” has revealed the names of 45 globe-spanning organizations that will split a total of $471,500 in project-based grant funding this year. Over its 65-year history, the Graham Foundation has awarded more than $41 million in direct support to over 4,800 projects by individuals and organizations.

As noted in a statement, the 2021 organization grants “support the work of eminent and emerging architects, artists, designers, critics, curators, scholars, and others, to explore new possibilities for the field and engage practitioners and publics worldwide” and are split between five key project categories: Exhibitions (16 grants), Publications (16 grants), Student-led Publications (6), Public Programs (5), and Film, Video, and New Media (2).

As in years past, there are plenty of familiar names among the awardees (The Architectural League of New York, MAS Context, the Center for Architecture, NOMA) while a slate of recently launched and upcoming exhibitions have received funding including Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Heather Hart: Afrotecture (Re)Collection at the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, and New Middles, the third exhibition of Exhibit Columbus. The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts is also among the recipients for American Framing, the United States Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

All 45 of the Graham Foundation’s 2021 organizational grantees, which include a wide range of institutions and nonprofits based in both the U.S. and abroad, and their respective awarded projects are listed below, while more information on each can be found here.

Exhibitions

Arizona State University Art Museum (Tempe, Arizona)
A Country is not a House | Ronald Rael + Virginia San Fratello

Center for Architecture (New York City)
Reset: Towards a New Commons

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture (New York City)
Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, 1920 1930

The Drawing Center (New York City)
A New Grammar of Ornament

Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, Illinois)
Houses of Tomorrow

soviet-era architectural drawing in bold colors
Nadezhda Kolpakova, Color Solution for Architectural Volume, 1928. Student exercise for Color course taught by Gustav Klutsis at Vkhutemas, 1928–29. Courtesy Museum of the Moscow Architectural Institute, Moscow. From the 2021 organizational grant to The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art—Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture for Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, 1920–1930

High Museum of Art (Atlanta)
Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place

Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)
Christopher Kulendran Thomas: Another World

Landmark Columbus Foundation (Columbus, Indiana)
New Middles: From Main Street To Megalopolis, What Is The Future Of The Middle City?: 2021 Exhibition, Exhibit Columbus

LAXART (Los Angeles)
Nikita Gale

The Mosaic Rooms (London)
Stateless Heritage

The Museum of Modern Art (New York City)
Modern Architecture in South Asia: The Project of Decolonization (1947 1985)

National Organization of Minority Architects (Washington, D.C.)
SAY IT LOUD The National Organization of Minority Architecture (NOMA) 50th Anniversary Exhibition

vintage drawing of a circular futuristic house
Postcard rendering of the Keck & Keck House of Tomorrow, built 1933. Courtesy Indiana Landmarks and Collection of Steven R. Shook. From the 2021 organizational grant to Elmhurst Art Museum for Houses of Tomorrow

Proyector (Mexico City)
Casa Manifiesto

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Nature X Humanity: Oxman Architects

The University at Buffalo Art Galleries (Buffalo, New York)
Heather Hart: Afrotecture (Re)Collection

University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts
American Framing: US Pavilion, 17th International Architecture Exhibition

Film, Video, and New Media Projects

Design Trust Chicago
Chicago Design Database Network

LIGA Space for Architecture (Mexico City)
LIGA—Archivos

a timber pavilion structure
Pavilion of the United States at the 17th International Exhibition of Architecture La Biennale di Venezia, 2021. Courtesy: American Framing. From the 2021 organizational grant to University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts for American Framing: US Pavilion, 17th International Architecture Exhibition

Public Programs

Arizona State University Indigenous Design Collaborative (Phoenix)
Indigenous ways of being, knowing, doing, and connecting in architecture, 2021 22 lecture series

Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago)
2021 Design Matters Conference

Harvard University Graduate School of Design African American Student Union (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Black Matter: Celebrating Black Spatial Practices from the Magical to the Mundane, Black in Design Conference 2021

MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, at the Schindler House
Schindler House 1922 2022: an anthology of existences

Materials & Applications (Los Angeles)
A Program of Complete Disordering

Publications

Anyone Corporation (New York City)
Log 50, 53, 54, 55

Architectural League of New York (New York City)
NY Cleaning Up?

pixelated image of snow landform
Daniel A. Barber, Images of Accumulation: Art, Architecture, and the Media of Climate Change, 2017. Digital image. From the 2021 organizational grant to e-flux Architecture for Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and the Media of Climate Change

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (Washington, D.C.)
JAE Fellows

The Black School (New Orleans)
The Black Schoolhouse Manual

e-flux Architecture (New York City)
Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change

Goldsmiths, University of London Centre for Research Architecture
Research Architecture: Provocations, Practices, and Propositions

Lampo (Chicago)
Lampo Folio

MAS Context (Chicago)
Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio

Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Thresholds 50: Before After

New York Review of Architecture (New York City)
The New York Review of Architecture, 2021

Northwest Architectural League (Seattle)
ARCADE, Issue 39.1: Refraction

Places Journal (San Francisco)
Repair Manual

man staring up at a monolithic rock form
Ensamble Studio, Structures of Landscape, 2019. Tippet Rise Art Center, Montana. Photo: James Florio. From the 2021 organizational grant to MAS Context for Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio

Primary Information (New York City)
Note(s): Dara’s Birnbaum’s Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On / Deal With)

Terreform (New York City)
South Side Stories

Urban Design Forum and the Architectural League of New (New York City)
New City Critics

Yale University Press (New Haven, Connecticut)
Gego: Weaving the Space In-Between. Art, Architecture, Design, and Craft at the Edge of Modernity

Student-led Publications

Rice University School of Architecture (Houston)
PLAT 11.0

The School of Architecture (Arcosanti, Arizona)
WASH Magazine

Texas Tech University College of Architecture (Lubbock, Texas)
CROP 09: Shed

University of California, Los Angeles Department of Architecture and Urban Design
POOL, Issue No. 07

University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts
Fresh Meat 13: Isolated / Collective

University of Oklahoma Gibbs College of Architecture (Norman, Oklahoma)
Telesis, Volume IV: Habitation and Volume V: Adaptive Practice

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