The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts has awarded individual grants to several School of Architecture students, alumni, faculty and fellows for their innovative work in architecture.
Recipients are as follows:
FACULTY
Spyros Papapetros (with Gerd Zillner)
Frederick Kiesler's Magic Architecture
Jesse Reiser (with Nanako Umemoto)
Projects and Their Consequences
PH.D. STUDENTS
Esther Choi (with Marrikka Trotter)
ALUMNI
Daniel López-Pérez
Fuller in Mexico!/Fuller en México!
Meredith Miller
Bioplastics! Architecture's Many Natures
Stephen Phillips
Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture
Sara Stevens
Developing Expertise: Real Estate and Architecture in Metropolitan America
MELLON FELLOWS
Fabrizio Gallanti
According to its press release, "The Graham Foundation will award over $490,000 to support 63 outstanding projects by individuals that engage original ideas in architecture. Among the funded projects are exhibitions, publications, multimedia archives, documentary films, podcasts, symposia, participatory workshops, and live performances."
Established in 1956 by prominent Chicago architect, Ernest R. Graham, the Graham Foundation provides project-based grants to individuals and organizations that further creativity, scholarhip, experimentation and dialogue in architecture.
