72 Proyectos premiados con las Graham Foundation Awards 2017 Grants

"Esta gran variedad de proyectos promueven nuevas becas, fomentan la experimentación creativa y el diálogo crítico, y amplían las oportunidades para el compromiso público con la arquitectura y su papel en la sociedad contemporánea", explicó la Fundación Graham.

Amereida Phalene América Latina (documenta 14, Atenas, Grecia y Kassel, Alemania)
Esta doble instalación, tanto en Atenas como en Kassel, cuenta con el trabajo de participantes de la Ciudad Abierta - en parte comunal, en parte experimento pedagógico que nace de manos de un laboratorio de arquitectura en la costa del Pacífico de Chile.

Diseñando la Imagen Computacional / Imaginando el Diseño Computacional (Miller Gallery en Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)
Una exposición de fotografías originales, películas, reproducciones de alta calidad y reconstrucciones de software interactivo examina el período formativo de control numérico y las tecnologías de diseño asistido por computadora en laboratorios de investigación entre 1949 y 1976 y traza sus vínculos con los actuales lenguajes de diseño arquitectónico.

54 Basel Street (Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel) Reactivando el ornamento arquitectónico como material de referencia para un ambiente escultural, esta exposición explora la ciudad israelí de los años 70 como lupa de las historias del modernismo en Oriente Medio.

Límites de asistencia: La Constitución y el Mantenimiento de la Frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México (Woodbury University Hollywood Outpost, Los Ángeles, CA)
A través de la presentación de un texto original, animaciones, fotografías, maquetas y mapas, la exposición enmarca teóricamente un engrosamiento de la frontera México-Estados Unidos de una sola línea a un territorio geopolítico.

(57ª Bienal de Venecia, Venecia, Italia) Explorando la relación entre la danza y la arquitectura del espacio, este ritual de la comunidad llama a la paz entre los pueblos y con el medio ambiente mediante la creación de un patrón diseñado en movimiento.

Extranjeros Indígenas: Patrimonio Islámico en Peligro en la República de Georgia Academy Hall Gallery, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts)
Este proyecto muestra el patrimonio arquitectónico actualmente indocumentado y en riesgo de la minoría musulmana de Georgia Laz, al hacerlo, explora el papel de la preservación histórica en la memoria nacional, al mismo tiempo que establece una base para futuros esfuerzos de conservación.

Proyecto Victoria Square (documenta 14, Atenas, Grecia y Kassel, Alemania)
Con motivo de documenta 14 en Atenas y Kassel, esta plataforma involucrará a las organizaciones comunitarias existentes, a iniciativas de inmigrantes y refugiados y a negocios y artistas locales para explorar cómo las actividades creativas del vecindario pueden contribuir y desarrollar una construcción comunitaria sostenible.

Detritus and Development (Gandhara Art Space, Karachi, Pakistan)
Un proyecto de investigación en curso que continúa examinando los paisajes emergentes en la intersección de la infraestructura, la guerra y el cambio climático en Pakistán a día de hoy.

Geomancy, Modernity, and Memory: Unofficial and Unrecognized Historic Civic Centers in Ghana
Una instalación de arte multimedia que examina cómo los patrones históricos del espacio y la cultura continúan siendoa referencias para la arquitectura y la vida social urbana en Ghana, presentando una serie de referencias históricas que van desde el panafricanismo hasta la actividad anticolonial y el período del Tráfico transatlántico de esclavos.

Thick (SCI-Arc Gallery, Los Ángeles, CA)
Esta exposición explora el espesor del material como sitio de una investigación arquitectónica, buscando evidencia en la fuerte interacción entre lo representativo y lo material.

Incense, Sweaters, and Ice (Museo de Arte Moderno, Nueva York, NY)
Un nuevo largometraje inspirado en la idea de que cualquier cosa que se haga mientras se observa es una actuación que sigue a tres protagonistas (rodados en Los Angeles, California, St. Louis, Missouri y Clarksdale, Mississippi) mientras navegan los dramas de la vigilancia, Moviéndose entre mirar, siendo mirado y permanecer sin ser visto.

Havana Modern: Nicolás Quintana and the Architecture of the City
Una película documental de larga duración centrada en el arquitecto Nicolás Quintana (1925-2011), que desempeñó un papel importante en el establecimiento del Movimiento Moderno en Cuba, y la ciudad de La Habana en particular.

Never Discuss Politics at Home
Este proyecto crea un programa de televisión arquitectónico para debatir la pasividad de la disciplina y desafía a la arquitectura a involucrarse en los conflictos centrales de la agenda global a través de la construcción de narrativas sociales y territoriales alternativas.

Londres, Reino Unido y Medellín, Colombia
Absentee's House
Esta película traza un grupo de casas vacías o con destino incierto en Metztitlán, México, donde la arquitectura de la casa deshabitada representa una metáfora de cómo la noción de "casa" se fragmenta a través de la experiencia de la migración, las representaciones hegemónicas del estilo de vida y el intercambio transnacional de capitales.

The Unstable Object  (Parte III)
Un proyecto multimedia que continúa explorando los espacios físicos, sociales y técnicos de los trabajadores de la fábrica, cuyas vidas nos tocan cada día a través de los objetos que crean, a pesar de que sus rutinas diarias permanecen invisibles y en gran parte desconocidas para nosotros.

Night White Skies
Un podcast basado en la conversación que presenta a diseñadores, ingenieros y escritores en la periferia de la disciplina arquitectónica discutiendo el futuro de la arquitectura, en la que tanto el mundo de la tierra como el del cuerpo están ahora abiertos al diseño.

Renderlands
Este proyecto es un documental ambientado en los estudios de videojuegos y las granjas de India, que sigue a un grupo de animadores locales a través de los entornos de oficina donde trabajan, los paisajes digitales que producen y las ciudades donde viven.

Everywhere All the Time
Conectando los campos de la danza, la música, el arte y la arquitectura, este espectáculo interdisciplinario incluye coreografía de Seán Curran, dirección musical de David Skidmore de Third Coast Percussion y diseño de la reconocida arquitecta paisajista Diana Balmori.

Water and the City
El proyecto de investigación African Water Cities, iniciado por Kunlé Adeyemi en 2011, continuará explorando los retos y oportunidades que enfrentan las ciudades y comunidades africanas en o junto al agua, incluyendo la investigación y documentación llevada a cabo por la oficina de Adeyemi, NLÉ y Suzanne Lettieri.

Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship, and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA 1984/87 (Birkhäuser)
Este libro ofrece una teoría de la arquitectura abierta mediante la exploración de la renovación urbana de Berlín-Kreuzberg a través de IBA1984 / 87, el International Building Exposition Berlin, como un microcosmos de la historia de la vivienda pública; Los debates participativos, posmodernos y poststructuralistas en arquitectura; y la relación entre las ciudades, la inmigración y los derechos humanos, al dar voz no sólo a los arquitectos y políticos, sino también a los residentes no ciudadanos.

Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions (Lars Müller Publishers)
Este libro reúne ensayos de un grupo de historiadores arquitectónicos que exploran la relación entre las instituciones de un mundo globalizado de posguerra, como las corporaciones, las Naciones Unidas, la "gran ciencia", la Iglesia Católica, y la evolución del distintivo lenguaje arquitectónico de Marcel Breuer, una figura clave en la generación de diseñadores de la Bauhaus que emigraron a los Estados Unidos y transformaron la arquitectura moderna.

Unfinished State (Archive Books)
Este proyecto es un códice de narrativas visuales y conversaciones para navegar por paisajes posconflicto, geografías afectivas, estados especulativos y ficciones especulativas entre Berlín y Beirut.

The City Creative: The Rise of Placemaking in Urban America (University of Chicago Press) Basado en más de seis años de trabajo de campo, investigación de archivos y entrevistas, este libro explora los fundamentos intelectuales y las experiencias prácticas de la "placemaking" en los Estados Unidos.

Race and Modern Architecture (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Diecisiete ensayos innovadores consideran el papel de la teoría racial en el discurso arquitectónico, desde la Ilustración hasta el presente.

Design for the Real World: 1970s Humanitarian Design Activism (MIT Press)

Utilizando fuentes archivísticas y visuales previamente exploradas, esta monografía explora los orígenes y el impacto del activismo del diseño popular de los años 60 y 70 y su apropiación por los políticos de finales de la Guerra Fría bajo la apariencia de una agenda humanitaria poscolonial de "diseño para el desarrollo".

Carlo Scarpa (Yale University Press)
Como monografía definitiva sobre el icónico diseñador Carlo Scarpa, este importante libro nuevo ofrece un contexto histórico completo para su vida y la gama completa de su producción, incluyendo la arquitectura, las obras de vidrio y el diseño de exposiciones.

The Architect and the Public: The Contribution of George Baird to Architecture (Artifice Books on Architecture)

Este libro proporcionará el primer marco crítico que rodea las contribuciones de George Baird al discurso arquitectónico, incluyendo las recientes influencias académicas de su trabajo y las entrevistas con los principales protagonistas que han tenido intercambios con Baird, incluyendo Kenneth Frampton, Rem Koolhaas y Peter Eisenman.

"Shaped for Purpose": Gerald Summers and Makers of Simple Furniture, 1931–1940 (Oslo Editions)
La primera monografía completa para documentar el trabajo de Gerald Summers (1899- 1968), el diseñador más importante de muebles modernos de Gran Bretaña en la década de 1930, este libro ilumina la importancia de su trabajo, no sólo a la evolución de la arquitectura y el diseño del siglo XX, También a la concepción del interior doméstico moderno.

The Miniature Boom: A History of American Architectural Models in the Twentieth Century (Park Books)
Retratando la historia del modelo arquitectónico, este libro considera el boom en miniatura de la posguerra, descubriendo cómo el modelo se convirtió en un medio de igualdad tanto para el diseño como para la presentación de proyectos arquitectónicos.

Leonardo Finotti: A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture, Volume 2 (Lars Müller Publishers)
This is the second photography book in an ongoing trilogy presenting images of Finotti's photographic vision of undiscovered Latin American modern architecture, and offering   an important overview of the region across nine latitudes: Buenos Aires, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Quito, Medellin, Caracas, Guatemala City, and San Juan.

Giedion In Between (gta Verlag)
Este es el segundo libro de fotografía en una trilogía en curso que presenta imágenes de la visión fotográfica de Finotti de la arquitectura moderna latinoamericana sin descubrir y ofrece una visión importante de la región a través de nueve latitudes: Buenos Aires, Santiago, Río de Janeiro, Brasília, Quito, Medellín, Caracas, Ciudad de Guatemala y San Juan.

A manifesto on the environmental imagination in the form of a series of architectural projects that deploy geographic aesthetics and narrative technique to engage the controversies and scales of the Earth as a grand question of design.

Indo Pacific: An Instantaneous Region, Stories, Atlases, Cartographies, and Commons (Architecture at Rice/Park Books)
Taking the recently created Indo-Pacific region as its focus, this publication considers how this para-fictional place could be considered architecture's ideal site as the once imaginary space becomes increasingly real.

Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives (HarperCollins Publishers)
Through analyses of buildings, landscapes, and cityscapes from the ancient world to the present, this project draws from recent research in cognition and neuroscience to explore how people actually experience the built world, demonstrating its profound and pervasive effects on cognition, well being, and the sense of identity.

Based on new archival and museological research, this book presents the first sustained interpretation of a major corpus of presentation drawings for para-architectural agitational structures designed by the Soviet artist Gustav Klutsis in the early 1920s, for the dissemination of revolutionary speech, printed matter, advertising, and moving-image media.

The Informal as a Project: Practices of Self-Help Housing in Peru, 1954–1986 (University of Pittsburgh Press)

This critical examination of aided self-help housing, or technical assistance to self- builders, focuses on three interrelated themes: the circumstances which made Peru a fertile site for innovation in low-cost housing under a succession of very different political regimes; the influences that prompted architects to consider self-help housing as an alternative mode of practice; and the context in which international development agencies came to embrace these projects as part of their larger goals during the Cold War and beyond.

A book-length critical history of one of the most persistent and politicized, yet subtle, transformations in U.S. material culture that considers the twentieth-century shift from design for the average user to design for a range of users, culminating in the movement toward Universal Design.

How to Make the Next City
A catalogue of over 100 spatial-social tactics for a new architecture, this book is a practical manual that responds to the present challenges to architecture's public relevance, by collecting examples from all over the world and at all scales, which can reconnect architecture with its role of serving society.

Superpowers of Ten (Artifice Books on Architecture)
This publication examines Powers of Ten: A Film Dealing with the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero (1977), made by the Office of Charles and Ray Eames, through a body of research that includes contested facts about the film and a new series of experiments that explore alternative ideas about politics embeded in the film's assemblage of architecture, science, and daily life.

Goodbye World!: Looking at the World After the Internet (Sternberg Press)
This book addresses the 360 degree sensorial shift in the ways that we see, feel, and engage with art and the urban landscape post 2000, and offers a toolkit to help craft a new vocabulary for seeing, beeing, and feeling in the 21st century.

Seeing Sori Yanagi (Phaidon)

Exploring Japanese designer Sori Yanagi's work and design philosophy, this project offers the first comprehensive study of the designer's legacy through a new examination of works, exhibitions, lectures, and essays along with relevant works from the Mingei movement, opening a larger dialogue regarding intercultural connections and diversions within a design philosophy that continues to be reinterpreted by contemporary artists and designers.

Mussolini Dux and Architect: Propaganda and the Urban Landscape of Fascist Italy (University of Toronto Press)
This book addresses the ways in which Benito Mussolini deployed and exploited architecture and urban planning as political and anthropological tools aimed at the transformation of society at large.

Dialogues on Urbanization: Emerging Landscapes (Actar Publishers)
To take stock of recent advancements in landscape architectural research methods, design strategies, and representational modes, this book features eleven pairs of speculative and built projects, accompanied by interviews with their designers.

"African Building Types: An Architectural-Ethnographic Study" and Other Essays by Hermann Frobenius
Comprised of the first english translation and a critical introduction to the earliest major texts about African architecture written by a trained architect in Germany, this publication presents writings from the 1890s by Hermann Frobenius, the father of the renowned anthropologist of Africa, Leo Frobenius.

Imagining New Eurasia
Through analysis of historical and contemporary architecture and urbanism, this publication integrates the role of cities, networks, and territories in urban, regional, and continental structures in order to conceptualize Eurasia as one continent.

The Eternal Internet Brother/Sisterhood (Automatic Books)

This project documents an annual nomadic residency project, exposing a countercultural techno-utopian spirit forged with a contemporary anthropology, influenced by internet culture.

Question Project (Hatje Cantz)

This publication documents a series of public interventions developed through a critical participatory device by Mil M2, an architecture and art collective based in Chile, aimed at the collective generation and dissemination of debates in public spaces.

Anders Ruhwald: Unit 1: 3583 Dubois Street (Moran Bondaroff and Volume Gallery)
In late 2014, ceramicist Anders Ruhwald purchased a foreclosed building in Detroit with the intention of using the four apartments within to explore the transformational politics of fire; this publication documents the resulting exhibitions and artworks, culminating in the permanent art installation that stands today at 3583 Dubois Street.

Depositions: Cultura and the Counsel of Roberto Burle Marx (University of Texas Press) This book examines the public parks of the modernist landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx in parallel with eighteen environmental position pieces delivered during his 1967– 74 appointment as cultural counselor to the military dictatorship in Brazil, demonstrating a bold voice of caution against rapid development, resource exploitation, and ecological devastation.

Pure Space: Expanding the Public Sphere through Public Space Transformations in Latin AmericanInformal Settlements (Actar Publishers)
Highlighting the civic and political changes that effective public space making has had on informal settlements of Latin American cities, this collection of 21 case studies analyzes selected built interventions that provide a base for replication in other communities and enrich current literature on informal settlement improvement.

Theater of War: The Pretend Villages of Iraq and Afghanistan (CDS Books)
A photography-based book project that engages with the structures and inhabitants of mock training villages created on U.S. military installations in North Carolina, Louisiana, California, and elsewhere.

Reassembling the Natural
This anthology convenes emerging and leading artists, scholars, scientists, activists, and theorists to reconsider the meaning, design, and future of natural history collections in the context of the sixth great planetary extinction, currently underway on Earth as a result of habitat loss, urbanization, deforestation, and climate change.

Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape (MIT Press)
Examining the people, projects, and collaborations emerging from architecture and computational practices, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, this book includes the work of Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte, with the MIT Architecture Machine Group.

In the Forest Ruins (Verso Books)
The modern projects of colonization that were implemented in twentieth-century Amazonia are filtered through social and environmental histories to draw a critical archaeology of the global climate crisis in this book.

On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews (Soberscove Press)
Featuring the only existing first-person account of the Acropolis restoration project as told by the master marble sculptors who brought the project to fruition, this book consists of interviews and on-site photographs, which contrast discussion of technical aspects of their craft against the backdrop of the interviewees' experiences as workers and citizens living through the Greek economic and political crises.

Selling South Africa: Architecture, Tourism, and Identity in the Post-Apartheid Era
This project, which will culminate in a book manuscript, explores the role of tourist spaces in post-apartheid South Africa as unregulated sites of identity production that provide a counter-approach to more sanitized architectural modes of heritage-making such as museums, commemorative monuments, and public memorials.

Architectural Form Faces Urbanization: Manfredo Tafuri and the Tel Aviv–Jaffa City Center Competition
As part of a book on urbanization and architecture in the 1960s, this research project will provide an analysis of architectural form, scale, imageability, and public space through the lens of an overlooked essay by Manfredo Tafuri, "Critical Rationalism and New Utopianism, Competition for Restructuring Tel Aviv–Jaffa City Center."

The Transformation of Black Ypsilanti: Race and Housing in a Small American City
To examine the ways race and capital have shaped US housing policy in the twentieth century, this research will analyze the effects of segregated housing projects and urban renewal on the African-American Southside neighborhood in the small industrial city of Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Terra Infecta
An ongoing research project that analyzes and charts the relationships between infectious diseases—malaria, AIDS, and other epidemics, among them—and the modern reorganization of cities and territories.

After Spaceship Earth
This writing-based research project explores critical responses to architect R. Buckminster Fuller’s call for new technologies and experimental architectures to populate outer space, analyzing the legacy of his ideas in contemporary art.

Narrative Architecture: A Kynical Manifesto
Half-manifesto and half-genealogy, this project explores the critical role that Narrative Architecture played in generating a twentieth-century critique of modernist ideology by understanding the potential of the methods and tools of representation as ends in themselves.

Archives of the “Oriental” Gaze: The Japanese Perception of Islamic Architecture in Global Perspective
Analyzing an untouched photographic collection, this project documents the Middle Eastern travels (1904–05) of Japanese architect and historian Ito Chuta (1867–1954), evaluating the impact of “Oriental” and “Islamic” architecture in the context of global cultural and geopolitical developments.

VIRGINIA HANUSIK New Orleans, LA A Receding Coast: The Architecture and Infrastructure of South Louisiana The geographical complexities of South Louisiana, one of the frontlines of climate change in the United States, is examined in this project through a consideration of the region’s architectural history.

“Memories from Resistance”: Women, War, and the Forgotten Work of Margarete SchütteLihotzky, 1938–1989
Uncovering the work of forgotten architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, including her participation in the communist resistance against the Nazi regime and her activism in the Austrian women’s and peace movements, this interdisciplinary architectural history introduces her work to English-language audiences.

Vann Molyvann and the Absent Archives of Cambodian Modernism Architect
Vann Molyvann, an important cultural figure and protagonist in the history of Cambodian modernism, is the subject of this research project, which considers his work in relation to the fate of New Khmer modernist architecture during the military coup of 1970 and the subsequent rise of the Khmer Rouge.

The Architecture of Deafness: Two-Hundred Years of the Deaf School as an Architectural Type in the United States, 1817–2017
An historical recovery and design speculation on the overlooked architectural typology of the deaf school, this project considers how these schools tell a broader story of evolving attitudes towards deafness, disability, and normalcy through eras of welfare, assimilation, and empowerment.

Samuel Mockbee: Art and Architecture, Representation and Vision
This comprehensive study focuses on the life and practice of architect, artist and educator Samuel Mockbee and examines his belief in the significance of the creative act’s role in exposing truth and revealing beauty through an analysis of his drawings, paintings, sketches, and writings.

Concrete Spring: Oscar Niemeyer, Algeria, and the Architecture of Revolution
A pioneering exploration of Niemeyer’s extensive yet largely overlooked Algerian period, this project will form the basis of a long form essay in the AA Files journal, and subsequently a comprehensive monograph detailing this critical phase of the architect’s work.

Osage Orange: A Design Manual
This publication is the maiden issue of Prairie Studio, a series of natural history design manuals that engage the history and near future of keystone species and technologies of the Great Plains through essays, illustrations, and interviews.

The Organic Line and the Ends of Modernism
This book explores the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark’s concept of the “organic line,” a line of space that occurs between a painting and frame, or built elements such as lintels and doors, arguing for its importance in rethinking key terms and paradigms of art and architectural discourse, among them, medium, form, narrative, mark, image, environment, and edge.

Hitler’s Northern Dream: Building an Empire in Occupied Norway
Nazi building programs in Norway provide physical evidence of Adolf Hitler’s intended postwar empire, including new towns designed to enforce ideological conformity, vast infrastructures to move resources to Berlin, and carefully planned enclaves for the colonies’ German rulers.

A Nation of Walls
The often-overlooked history of segregation walls built throughout the United States in the mid to late 1930s to separate black and white neighborhoods are mapped in this forensic cartography research project.