Graham Foundation awards over $520,000 in Grants to Individuals
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts announces its 2014 Grants to Individuals, which will award over $520,000 to 68 projects that demonstrate innovative and thought-provoking ideas in architecture. The grants will provide direct support to individuals for the research, development, and presentation of publications, exhibitions, films, new media initiatives, and other programs.
The new grantees comprise a diverse and multi-disciplinary group of U.S. and internationally-based architects, designers, artists, scholars, writers, curators, and others. The funded projects were selected from a competitive pool of more than 700 applicants representing 40 countries. The grants support outstanding work that claims new ground in architecture discourse and practice and offers original speculations that challenge the canon of architectural record. Many of this year’s funded projects address timely, global issues, such as the impact of foreign development on urbanization in East Africa; the history of settlement and experimentation in the Arctic north; the emergence of the 21st-century “company town”; and reenvisioning architecture for aging populations. Together, the funded projects produce new ways of understanding the contemporary condition, expand historical perspectives, and stake out innovative possibilities for the future of architecture and the designed environment.