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2025
November 12, 2025—The Graham Foundation announces the two winners of the 2025 Carter Manny Awards along with five Citations of Special Recognition. Earlier this year, 39 Grants to Organizations totaling $573,300 and 42 Grants to Individuals totaling $385,500 were announced.
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A Watery Grave in the Desert: Termination, Survivance, and the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe
Dean MichelCarter Manny Award -
Ecological Mediations: Design with Environmental Science and Technology in Late Twentieth-Century North America
Anna RenkenCarter Manny Award -
Making Energy Visible
Tulay AtakExhibition -
Black Holes Ain't So Black
Thuto Durkac-Somo, Jonathan González & Mario GoodenExhibition -
Light Gauge
Departamento del Distrito: Nathan Friedman & Francisco QuiñonesExhibition -
Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts (Part 2)
Erin BeslerExhibition -
Casas de Cartón—Rural Memories of the Dry Corridor
Carlos H. BlancoExhibition -
The Society for Care and Maintenance
Jason CampbellExhibition -
Animismo Animado
Maria Fernanda Cartagena, Paula Izurieta, Eduardo Kohn, Fabiano Kueva, Gabriel Moyer-Perez & Manari UshiguaExhibition -
The Seeds of Regionalism in the South: An Investigation into the Work of Alfred Clauss and Jane West Clauss in Knoxville, Tennessee
Richard-Allen Foster, Benjamin Pollak & John L. SandersExhibition -
A83 Exhibition Program, 2025–26
a83Exhibition -
The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin
Architectural Association School of ArchitectureExhibition -
Bruce Goff: Material Worlds
Art Institute of ChicagoExhibition -
Culture Lab
Canadian Centre for ArchitectureExhibition -
SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change
Chicago Architecture BiennialExhibition -
Citygroup Exhibition and Debate Program, 2026
CitygroupExhibition -
FUNGI: Anarchist Designers
Nieuwe InstituutExhibition -
Isamu Noguchi: "I am not a designer"
High Museum of ArtExhibition -
Alison Ruttan: The Paradox of Inaction
Hyde Park Art CenterExhibition -
How Heavy is a City?, Seventh Edition, Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Lisbon Architecture TriennaleExhibition -
MAGAZIN Exhibition Program, 2025–26
MAGAZIN Space for Contemporary ArchitectureExhibition -
Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa
The Museum of Modern ArtExhibition -
A Capsule in Time, Serpentine Pavilion 2025 by Marina Tabassum
Serpentine GalleriesExhibition -
Homelands
Storefront for Art and ArchitectureExhibition -
Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee’s Architectural Legacy
Tuskegee University-Legacy MuseumExhibition -
PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity: US Pavilion, 19th International Architecture Exhibition
University of Arkansas-Fay Jones School of Architecture and DesignExhibition -
SoHo in Flux: Art, Real Estate and the Housing Crisis
Alice Arnold & Sharon ZukinFilm -
Mr. Adams
Malcolm St-PierreFilm -
The Design Summit for Friends of Friends
Mobile Makers ChicagoPUBLIC PROGRAM -
Black Roots: Grounded and Growing Toward Collective Futures, Black in Design Conference 2025
Harvard University-Graduate School of DesignPUBLIC PROGRAM -
Space Between, Season Two
KoozarchPodcast -
Design for Dignity 03: A Convening of Possibilities
Deem JournalPublic Program -
Lampo 2025 Concert Series at the Graham Foundation
LampoPublic Program -
Aria Dean: The Color Scheme
PerformaPublic Program -
Designing the American Century: The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915–1965
Thomas J. CampanellaPublication -
Infinite Because It Mirrors [Infinito Porque Espelha]
Olivia Abrahão & Carla JuaçabaPublication -
Traces of Ecstasy: Modelling Decolonial, Queer, and Anarchic African futures for the 21st Century
KJ AbuduPublication -
El Lissitzky: Writings on Architecture and the City
Richard AndersonPublication -
Appartamento Aperto: At Home with Marco Zanuso
Shantel BlakelyPublication -
We the Bacteria: Notes Towards Biotic Architecture
Beatriz Colomina & Mark WigleyPublication -
The City in the Shadow of the Shantytown: A Critical History of the Bidonville
Sheila CranePublication -
What Else Could It Mean? Drawings and Writings by James Wines/SITE
Phillip Denny, James Wines & Suzan WinesPublication -
Crossroads of the Americas: A History of Cuban Architecture
Victor DeupiPublication -
Building, Breaking, Rebuilding: The Illinois Institute of Technology Campus and Chicago's South Side
Kevin Harrington & Michelangelo SabatinoPublication -
Oríkì Design Series
Nifemi Marcus-BelloPublication -
City as Living Laboratory: Artists + Scientists + Communities Creating a Resilient and Equitable Public Realm
Mary MissPublication -
Architecture as an Instruction-Based Art
Farshid MoussaviPublication -
Nightrise
Mohamad NahlehPublication -
They asked me to design a house, I asked them to design a home
Ilaria Palmieri & Georgina PantazopoulouPublication -
The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives
Łukasz StanekPublication -
Tracking Newark, N.J., 1977–2024
Camilo Jose VergaraPublication -
New Architecture Writers Newsletter
New Architecture WritersPublication -
New City Critics, 2025–26
Urban Design Forum and the Architectural League of New YorkPublication -
Memo: Writing to Architecture
Architecture ExchangePublication -
Fem Pub 1960–1990: A Visual Compendium of Feminist Periodicals
Bikini BooksPublication -
Stable, Issue No. 1: Bad Ideas
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona-Department of ArchitecturePublication -
Beverly Buchanan: I Broke the House
ETH Zurich-gta exhibitionsPublication -
FORGOTTEN LANDS, Volume 07: Poetics of Architecture
FORGOTTEN LANDSPublication -
Beverly's Athens
Institute 193Publication -
Jupiter Magazine, Issue 008
Jupiter MagazinePublication -
In Between Projects: A Collective Revision of 15 Years of LIGA–Space for Architecture
LIGA–Space for ArchitecturePublication -
The Making of the National Public Housing Museum
National Public Housing MuseumPublication -
Chicago Review of Architecture
New York Review of ArchitecturePublication -
Rendered Visible: The Black Architectural Imagination
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and CulturePublication -
POOL, Issue No. 11
University of California, Los Angeles-Department of Architecture and Urban DesignPublication -
VORKURS_Interstice
University of Florida-Graduate School of ArchitecturePublication -
Fresh Meat Journal 15
University of Illinois at Chicago-College of Architecture, Design, and the ArtsPublication -
SPACE FOR FREE, Issues 13–24
SPACE FOR FREEPublication -
Africaland! Surface of Massive Change
Anna Nnenna AbengoweResearch -
Against the Denial of Wetland: Environmental Stewardship in the Hawizeh Marsh
Farah Alkhoury & Ameneh SolatiResearch -
Black Architectures: Race, Pedagogy, and Practice, 1957–68
Rebecca ChoiResearch -
Building Native Liberation: Advancing Architecture and Geography with King Kalākaua, 1874–1887
Sean ConnellyResearch -
Niger Consultants and Modern Architecture in Nigeria
Jareh DasResearch -
A Forest, a Tree, a Log, a Building
La Liga de la Madera: Karina Flores, Mecky Reuss, Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo & Jachen SchleichResearch -
Karaganda, Karaganda
Kandis FriesenResearch -
Crumbling Land
Noah GotlibResearch -
From Denver to Chicago: Racial Geographies and the Enduring Underside of Miesian Modernism
Leen KatribResearch -
The Architecture of Dreams: The Work of Rita Wolff
Hamed KhosraviResearch -
Dichotomy of Heritage and Industrialization in Mang Thít’s Sustainable Development
Hojung Kim & Ha NguyenResearch -
How to be Rural? American Planning in Africa and the Global Project of Modern Rurality, 1960s–1970s
Ayala LevinResearch -
Aesthetics of Disappearance: Concrete Pillboxes of Hokkaido
Noritaka MinamiResearch -
Building Worlds: A Feminist Biography of Postwar Architecture
Olga TouloumiResearch -
Dams as Temples: The Spatial Politics of Infrastructure Sacralization in India
Padmini UnniResearch
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