Graham Foundation has announced the 2025 Grants to Individuals. The sum of $385,500 will be distributed among 42 grants to 64 recipients from Brazil, Ecuador, France, Greece, Nigeria, and elsewhere. Last year, $519,500 was distributed among 56 individuals.
The 64 individuals were drawn from a pool of more than 600 submissions. Many recipients may be familiar to AN readers such as Mario Gooden, Beatriz Colomina, Mary Miss, and James Wines. The funded projects include publications, research projects, exhibitions, and films, the Graham Foundation shared in a statement that on subjects related to agricultural, race and architecture, and urbanism. The grants to Carter Manny Award winners will be announced later this year.
The full list of 2025 Graham Foundation individual grantees and their respective awards projects are listed below, and more information about each recipient and their respective project concept can be found here.
Exhibitions
Tülay Atak (New York)
Making Energy Visible
Erin Besler (Hopewell, New Jersey)
Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts (Part 2)
Carlos H. Blanco (New York)
Casas de Cartón—Rural Memories of the Dry Corridor
Jason Campbell (Chicago)
The Society for Care and Maintenance
Maria Fernanda Cartagena, Paula Izurieta, Eduardo Kohn, Fabiano Kueva, Gabriel Moyer-Perez, and Manari Ushigua (Montreal; New York; Quito, Ecuador)
Animismo Animado
Thuto Durkac-Somo, Jonathan González, and Mario Gooden (New York)
Black Holes Ain’t So Black
Richard-Allen Foster, Benjamin Pollak, and John L. Sanders (Knoxville, Tennessee)
The Seeds of Regionalism in the South: An Investigation into the Work of Alfred Clauss and Jane West Clauss in Knoxville, Tennessee
Departamento del Distrito: Nathan Friedman and Francisco Quiñones (Mexico City)
Light Gauge
Films
Alice Arnold and Sharon Zukin (New York)
SoHo in Flux: Art, Real Estate and the Housing Crisis
Malcolm St-Pierre (Montreal)
Mr. Adams
Publications
Olivia Abrahão and Carla Juaçaba (Paris and São Paulo)
Infinite Because It Mirrors
KJ Abudu (New York)
Traces of Ecstasy: Modelling Decolonial, Queer, and Anarchic African futures for the 21st Century
Richard Anderson (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
El Lissitzky: Writings on Architecture and the City
Shantel Blakely (Houston)
Appartamento Aperto: At Home with Marco Zanuso
Thomas J. Campanella (Ithaca, New York)
Designing the American Century: The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915–1965
Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley (New York)
We the Bacteria: Notes Towards Biotic Architecture
Sheila Crane (Charlottesville, Virginia)
The City in the Shadow of the Shantytown: A Critical History of the Bidonville
Victor Deupi (Miami)
Crossroads of the Americas: A History of Cuban Architecture
Kevin Harrington and Michelangelo Sabatino (Chicago)
Building, Breaking, Rebuilding. The Illinois Institute of Technology Campus and Chicago’s South Side
Nifemi Marcus-Bello (Lagos, Nigeria)
Oríkì Design Series
Mary Miss (New York)
City as Living Laboratory: Artists + Scientists + Communities Creating a Resilient and Equitable Public Realm
Farshid Moussavi (London)
Architecture as an Instruction-Based Art
Mohamad Nahleh (Columbus, Ohio)
Nightrise
Ilaria Palmieri and Georgina Pantazopoulou (Amsterdam and Athens)
They asked me to design a house, I asked them to design a home
Łukasz Stanek (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives
Camilo José Vergara (New York)
Tracking Newark, N.J., 1977–2024
James Wines, Suzan Wines, and Phillip Denny (New York)
What Else Could It Mean? Drawings and Writings by James Wines/SITE
Research
Anna Nnenna Abengowe (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Africaland! Surface of Massive Change
Farah Alkhoury and Ameneh Solati (New York and Rotterdam)
Against the Denial of Wetland: Environmental Stewardship in the Hawizeh Marsh
Rebecca Choi (New Orleans)
Black Architectures: Race, Pedagogy, and Practice, 1957–68
Sean Connelly (Honolulu)
Building Native Liberation: Advancing Architecture and Geography with King Kalākaua, 1874–1887
Jareh Das (Warri, Nigeria)
Niger Consultants and Modern Architecture in Nigeria
La Liga de la Madera: Karina Flores, Mecky Reuss, Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo, and Jachen Schleich (Mexico City)
A Forest, a Tree, a Log, a Building
Kandis Friesen (Berlin)
Karaganda, Karaganda
Noah Gotlib (Toronto)
Crumbling Land
Leen Katrib (Lexington, Kentucky)
From Denver to Chicago: Racial Geographies and the Enduring Underside of Miesian Modernism
Hamed Khosravi (London)
The Architecture of Dreams: The Work of Rita Wolff
Hojung Kim and Ha Nguyen (Hanoi, Vietnam; and Knoxville, Tennessee)
Dichotomy of Heritage and Industrialization in Mang Thít’s Sustainable Development
Ayala Levin (Los Angeles)
How to be Rural? American Planning in Africa and the Global Project of Modern Rurality, 1960s–1970s
Noritaka Minami (Chicago)
Aesthetics of Disappearance: Concrete Pillboxes of Hokkaido
Olga Touloumi (Tivoli, New York)
Building Worlds: A Feminist Biography of Postwar Architecture
Padmini Unni (New York)
Dams as Temples: The Spatial Politics of Infrastructure Sacralization in India
