Graham Foundation has announced the 2026 Grants to Individuals. Over $500,000 will be distributed among 54 grants to 86 recipients from Mexico City, Beijing, Berlin, Lagos, and elsewhere. Local grant recipients include Future Firm, Norman Teague, and Bernard Williams.
The 86 individuals were drawn from a pool of more than 600 submissions. The funded projects include publications, research projects, exhibitions, and films. Topics that the grant money will support include advocacy and architecture, ecology in the Andean region, and a revisiting of the tabloid newspaper Skyline.
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
Juan Carlos Espinosa, Carlos A. Segura, Tania Tovar (San Jose, Costa Rica; and Mexico City)
Procesos Salvajes
Lisa Gálvez (Berkeley, California)
Earthen Comforts
Gerard & Kelly (New York City; Paris)
Saints at a Disco
Suzy Halajian, Noah Simblist (Los Angeles; Richmond, Virginia)
Cracks in the Edifice: The Fairground as Constellation
Nikolas Hirsch, Jorge Otero-Pailos (Brussels; New York City)
Becoming Monument
Drawing Architecture Studio (Beijing; New York City)
The Death and Life of an Apartment Building
Future Firm (Chicago)
The Stork’s Stair
MOS (New York City)
A Stop
Sarah Oppenheimer (New York City; Rotterdam)
N-06
Adriana Salazar Vélez (Mexico City)
Weaving Nets for Water Worlds
David Taylor (Tucson, Arizona)
COMPLEX
Norman Teague, Bernard Williams (Chicago)
If Architecture Could Dance
Film & New Media
Jay Cephas (Princeton, New Jersey)
Brick by Brick: Black Builders and the American Landscape
Crystal Kayiza (New York City)
The Gardeners
Adam James Smith (Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York City)
Nighthawk
Publications
Jana Ndiaye Berankova (Prague)
Karel Teige’s Theory and Criticism: Reflections on Architecture, Art, and Society
Ugo La Pietra, Elisa C. Cattaneo, Marta Bertazzoni, Simona Cesana (Brescia, Italy; Milan)
Ugo La Pietra. Interior/Exterior: The Unbalancing Experiments
Santiago Bonilla Hastings, Daniella Caramena, Lucas Hoops, James O’Brien (Mexico City)
Ediciones Eje, Issue 04: Mantener, reparar y sostener/Maintain, repair and sustain; Issue 05: Agua/Water
Lori A. Brown, Sarah Rafson (Cambridge, Massachusetts; Syracuse, New York)
Now What?! A Call for Advocacy, Activism, and Alliances in US Architecture
Arthur J. Clement, Emily Makaš (Atlanta; Charlotte, North Carolina)
Philip G. Freelon: Artist, Architect and Griot
Christina E. Crawford (Atlanta)
Model Housing: Atlanta and the Foundation of American Public Housing Architecture
Ilaria Di Carlo, Daria Ricchi (London; Oxford, United Kingdom)
Sympoietic Architecture. Making With Lina Ghotmeh
Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Emilio Distretti (Beit Sahour, Palestine; London; Stockholm)
Entity of Decolonization. The Afterlives of Colonial–Fascist Architecture
Sonja Dümpelmann (Munich)
Knowing Trees: A History of Public Health
Yasmina El Chami (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Collective Colonialism: Missionary Competition and Architectural Contestation in Ottoman Lebanon
Matthew Gandy (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Urban refugia
María González Pendás (Ithica, New York)
Holy Modern: Technocratic Fascism, Imperial Architectures, and Opus Dei
Christopher Hawthorne (New Haven, Connecticut)
Punch List
Owen Hopkins, Kabage Karanja, Stella Mutegi, Kathryn Yusoff (London; Newcastle, United Kingdom; Nairobi)
Architecture as an Earth practice
Lynne Horiuchi (El Cerrito, California)
Dislocations: The Architecture, Planning and Building of Prison Cities for Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II
Kate Joyce (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Watt or Fall
Hubert Pelletier, Simona Malvezzi, Wilfried Kuehn (Berlin; Montreal)
Designing the Insectarium
Ana María León (Somerville, Massachusetts)
Spatial Solidarities: Architecture and Resistance in 1970s Chile
Abigal Lucien (New York City)
Blood of the Earth
Alex Martínez Suárez (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
Concrete under the Sun: Brutalism in the Dominican Republic
Ciro Miguel (Zurich)
Brasília in 35mm: The New Capital through the Lens of Photojournalism, 1956–60
Guillaume Mojon, Veronika Spierenburg (Zurich)
Flora Ruchat-Roncati: The Mountain is the Wall
Leandro Villalba (Punta del Estay, Uruguay)
The Architecture of Punta del Este 1948–1987
Research
Olorunfemi Adewuyi (Lagos)
Remembering Memory: (In)formal Architectures of Resistance
Shane Ah-Siong (Mauritius; New York City)
Military Architectures of Displacement: Documenting Spatial Erasure in the Indian Ocean
Ibiye Camp (London)
Layt De Kam
Re’al Christian (New York City)
A Study of Two Cities: Seville, Kansas City, and Social Aesthetics Across the African Atlantic
Adrienne Economos-Miller, M. C. Overholt (Milwaukee; Philadelphia)
Trans Reconstruction: Roberta Dickinson’s Disobedient Archive
Alexander Garduño, Veronika Kudriashova (Mexico City)
Assembling Wood in Mexico
Vanessa Grossman (Philadelphia)
Between the Rust Belt and the Amazon: Extraction, Empire, and the Architecture of Vila Serra do Navio
José Ibarra (State College, Pennsylvania)
Andean Ecologies, Cosmologies, and Fictions across Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador
Duc Le (London)
Vietnamese Protean Modernism and the Architecture of Thuận Tiến Nguyễn
Le’Andra Laseur (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
As the Basic Repository of Inextinguishable Desires
Jorge Francisco Liernur, Isabella Moretti (Buenos Aires)
Towards the Third Foundation of Buenos Aires: Facsimile Edition of Le Corbusier’s Unpublished Plan (1929–1948)
Peter L’Official (New York City)
Invisible Plan: W. Joseph Black’s Black Arts Movement
Alex Maymind, Lauren McQuistion, David Turturo (Albuquerque, New Mexico; Minneapolis; and Lubbock, Texas)
Skyline: Rereading an Architectural Tabloid
Jeremy Melvin (London)
Jo Noero: South African Architecture, Politics and Spatial Justice
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (New York City)
The Proper Knowledge / The Proper Purpose
Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Future Tense – Queering the Third World Architecture