Gianni Pettena, Ice House II, 1972, Minneapolis, MN. From the 2013 Graham Foundation Organizational Grant to Woodbury University for Beyond Environment. Photo courtesy of Gianni Pettena. 

The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts is pleased to announce its 2013 Grants to Organizations. This year, over $448,000 has been awarded to 40 projects that demonstrate innovation and originality in approaches to architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The awarded projects were selected after a competitive review of over 200 submissions from organizations around the world. Among the projects that the Graham Foundation grants will support are a publication on Chandigarh and Casablanca by the Canadian Centre for Architecture; a series of online articles in Places Journal on how world cities are grappling with the consequences of modern geopolitics; an exhibition on architect Lebbeus Wood organized by the Southern California Institute of Architecture; and a dedicated architecture and environment residency at Headlands Center for the Arts.

For a complete list of the 2013 Grants to Organizations and the grantee project pages, click here.

A. Quincy Jones, Sidney F. and Frances Brody House, Los Angeles, California, 1948-51. Photograph by Jason Schmidt, 2012. Courtesy Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. 

The 2013 Grants to Organizations will provide direct to support to a wide range of publications, exhibitions, films, new media initiatives, and other programs being undertaken by organizations around the world. Look for the announcement of these new grants on August 15.

2014 Grants to Individuals Deadline

The Inquiry Form for our 2014 Grants to Individuals is now available. Individuals interested in applying for a grant must submit an Inquiry Form—the first stage of a two-stage application process. The deadline to submit the Inquiry Form is September 15, 2013.

Eligible individuals are invited to apply for a Production and Presentation Grant or a Research and Development Grant for projects that begin after April 15, 2014.

For more information about our grantmaking, to learn if your project is eligible for funding, and to access the Inquiry Form, see our grant guidelines.

 

In 2013, the Graham Foundation awarded more than $500,000 to 60 projects by individuals. You can browse these and other recently funded projects here.

 

HENRY SANOFF

The Graham Foundation bookshop features a selection of books related to the current exhibition, Where If Not Us?, including Henry Sanoff’s groundbreaking guide to the discipline of community design. Sanoff, AIA, is a distinguished professor of architecture in the School of Design at North Carolina State University and one of the founders of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). A leading international expert, Sanoff draws upon his own experiences and those of colleagues around the world to provide proven tools and techniques for bringing community members into the design process successfully and productively. The first and only how-to guide on community design developed for design professionals features case studies chronicling community design projects around the world, and techniques for fostering community participation such as Design Games for a culture-neutral approach to educating participants in their design options and the consequences of their choices.

For a complete list of 'Where If Not Us?' publictions selected by the exhibition organizers and protagonits, click HERE.

Please note the Graham Foundation galleries will be closed for Independence Day from Thursday, July 4 through Saturday, July 6.

 

MARTINO STIERLI

The Graham Foundation bookshop is carrying the recently published grantee book, Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror—a revaluation of the seminal architecture manifesto, Learning from Las Vegas, published in 1972 by the American architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour that marks the turn in architectural theory from modernism to postmodernism. Unlike other studies on the topic, particular emphasis is given to analyzing the role of visual media, such as photography and film, not only for their representation of urban form, but also as epistemological tools with regard to architectural research. Using both text and image, Stierli assesses the broad intellectual impact of this architectural manifesto and explains why the lessons from Learning from Las Vegas remain relevant today.

 

Related Grant:

Martino Stierli, Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror: The City in Theory, Photography, and Film

 

Binding: Pap
Pages: 352
Publisher: Getty Research Institute 
Publication Date: April 2013
ISBN: 9781606061374

 

CHRISTOPHER BASCOM RAWLINS

Edited by Alastair Gordon

 

The Graham Foundation bookshop is carrying the recently published grantee book, Fire Island Modernist that showcases the remarkable series of beach homes designed by the little known architect Horace Gifford in the 1960s. Gifford was instrumental in shaping the landscape and culture of Fire Island, New York during an era when it served as a vacation destination for middle-class families, a retreat for celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, and a haven for an increasingly vibrant gay community. Gifford’s austerely beautiful pavilions of cedar and glass are both uniquely modernist and responsive to the fragile barrier island landscape. Christopher Rawlins along with editor Alastair Gordon have produced a careful study of Gifford’s architectural and cultural legacy in Fire Island Modernist that includes indulgent photographs alongside detailed floor plans and text.

 

Related Grant:

 

Press:

The New York Times, The Architecture of Seduction, Guy Trebay

New York Magazine, Sun Rooms, Carl Swanson

 

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Binding: Hbk
Pages: 204 
Publisher: Metropolis Books/ Gordon de Vries Studio 
Publication Date: May 2013
ISBN: 9781938922091