For individuals, Graham Foundation grant priorities are to:
Provide opportunities to create, develop, and communicate challenging ideas about architecture and the designed environment
Support efforts to take positions, develop new forms of expression, engage debate around architecture and related fields, and reach new and broader audiences
Contribute to an applicant’s creative, intellectual, and professional growth at a crucial or potentially transformative career stage
Amplify emerging and underrecognized perspectives in architecture and design by giving priority to first-time applicants
Criteria for Evaluation
Projects with the greatest potential for funding directly connect to the Graham Foundation's mission to explore ideas in architecture and fulfill the following criteria:
Originality: the project demonstrates an innovative and challenging idea; critical, independent thinking; advanced scholarship; a new or experimental approach
Potential for impact: the project makes a meaningful contribution to discourse and/or to the field; expands knowledge; is a catalyst for future inquiry; raises awareness of an understudied issue; promotes diversity in subject matter, participants, and audience
Feasibility: the project has clear and realistic goals, timeframe, work plan, and budget
Capacity: applicant possesses strong qualifications and/or knowledge; demonstrates ability to carry out the project successfully; has access to necessary resources outside of the grant request
