The Graham Foundation announces 2021–22 Carter Manny Award honorees
The Graham Foundation has announced the winners of the 25th edition of the Carter Manny Awards recognizing emerging talent in the field of doctoral dissertation writing and research in architecture and design fields. The program has awarded 41 awards, 122 citations, and more than $900,000 in funding since being established in 1996. This year’s award winners offered comprehensive and diverse insights into the history of the built environment.MIT’s Caroline E. Murphy took home the writing award for her dissertation Waters and Wealth: Rivers, Infrastructure, and the Territorial Imagination in Grand Ducal Tuscany, ca. 1549–1609 examining hydraulic engineering methods employed by the Medici government in Tuscany near the turn of the 17th century. This year’s research award went to Southern Methodist University’s Danya Epstein for her dissertation Archival Ruins: Dennis Numkena and Hopi Art History, an in-depth look into the life’s work of Hopi polymath Dennis Numkena, the first Indigenous person ever head an architecture firm in the United States. Read the full post on Bustler
The Graham Foundation has announced the winners of the 25th edition of the Carter Manny Awards recognizing emerging talent in the field of doctoral dissertation writing and research in architecture and design fields. The program has awarded 41 awards, 122 citations, and more than $900,000 in funding since being established in 1996.
This year’s award winners offered comprehensive and diverse insights into the history of the built environment.
MIT’s Caroline E. Murphy took home the writing award for her dissertation Waters and Wealth: Rivers, Infrastructure, and the Territorial Imagination in Grand Ducal Tuscany, ca. 1549–1609 examining hydraulic engineering methods employed by the Medici government in Tuscany near the turn of the 17th century.
This year’s research award went to Southern Methodist University’s Danya Epstein for her dissertation Archival Ruins: Dennis Numkena and Hopi Art History, an in-depth look into the life’s work of Hopi polymath Dennis Numkena, the first Indigenous person ever head an architecture firm in the United States.
Read the full post on Bustler
