Design: FY2002 Grants

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Access | Challenge America Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation

New Public Works | Organizational Capacity | Panelists

Access

Alaska Design Forum, Inc. (consortium)
Anchorage, AK
$20,000
To support a series of lectures and workshops on the built environment. Architects and environmental and graphic designers will present current design issues at venues in Anchorage and Fairbanks.

Archeworks
Chicago, IL
$38,000
To support design and production of a prototype kitchen that would benefit individuals with physical disabilities. The prototype kitchen was developed by Archeworks, an alternative design school founded to initiate design solutions for underserved communities.

Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the extension and expansion of CitySpace, an architectural exhibition space open to the public seven days per week. The exhibition space offers visitors a virtual tour of Chicago's notable historic architectural sites dating from 1830 to 1930, and new programming would present Chicago's modern and contemporary architectural history.

Chicago Horticultural Society
Glencoe, IL
$33,000
To support the Great Gardens exhibition, publication and educational activities on landscape and garden design that will incorporate digitized photomural images, blueprints, models and a designer videotape and lecture series. Great Gardens will present contemporary gardens and landscapes images to explore the origins, ideas, techniques and cultural influences reflected in their design.

Indigenous Community Enterprises)
Flagstaff, AZ
$57,000
To support a housing project for elderly Navajos that incorporates traditional Navajo dwelling designs with contemporary housing design features. Design workshops will be conducted with Navajo elders and family members, community leaders, social service providers, tribal officials and facility managers.

Little Haiti Housing Association, Inc.
Miami, FL
$50,000
To support design fees, exhibition and publicity for new, affordable, single housing units in the traditionally underserved Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami City. Teaming up with the School of Architecture at the Florida International University, Little Haiti Housing Association will design and build at least eight housing units for this project.

Little Tokyo Service Center Community Development Corporation
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support a permanent interpretive center for the Little Tokyo National Historic District and a lecture series exploring the concept of an ethnic heritage site. The interpretive center will be housed in the Far East Building, within the historic district, and the programming will seek to raise awareness about issues involved in connecting ethnicity to historic architecture.

National Building Museum
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support This House is Home that engages communities and residents in photography, oral history and arts-based civic dialogue about affordable home ownership. A mobile gallery of the community's work will tour nationally and engage four diverse communities.

Challenge America Access

City of Chicago, Illinois
(on behalf of Mayor's Office of Special Events)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the Arts for Great Chicago Places and Spaces: A Celebration of Chicago Architecture. The Mayor's Office of Special Events in Chicago initiated an architecture festival in 1999 that provides more than 100 free architectural and design tours to more than 5,000 Chicagoans and visitors over two days.

City University of New York City College (consortium)
New York, NY
$80,000
To support a strategic planning process for the Harlem Heights Heritage Area, including pilot sites, cultural tourism, educational programming and economic revitalization. City College Architectural Center has been assisting the West Harlem Art Fund with efforts to establish a New York State Heritage Area in northern Manhattan.

Cornerstones Community Partnerships
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
To support the creation of a virtual 3-D architectural model and a native language retention project for the San Esteban del Ray Mission and mesa. Currently 500,000 people annually visit the mission and mesa and the virtual model and associated historical documentation will allow even larger audience access via the Internet.

Creativity

Architectural League of New York
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Life: An International Look at Contemporary Housing Design, a traveling exhibition showcasing and analyzing significant recent work in urban housing around the world. Projects selected for the exhibition will reflect the highest design standards as well as demonstrate a marked contribution to their urban environments.

Artists Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,500
To present design exhibitions on the theme of information technology as part of the Architecture and Design Project Series. The exhibitions will examine new methods for integrating technology and information systems into the designed and built environment.

Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support an exhibition, catalogue, video and national conference on school design. The project, Architecture for Education: New School Designs from the Chicago Competitions, will document and disseminate design models for school facilities.

Casa Familiar, Inc.
San Ysidro, CA
$20,000
To support an ideas competition, educational workshop, community events, and a publication examining the San Diego - Tijuana border region. This conceptual competition will generate ideas for the redesign of the border condition currently demarcated by a ten-foot high steel wall.

City of Long Beach, Mississippi
Long Beach, MS
$10,000
To support development of a master plan for the downtown and harbor area. The master plan process will begin with a series of public and private workshops involving the mayor, leaders from the community, and town citizens.

Design Trust for Public Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$27,500
To support research, planning and design of a park and its boundaries for a wetland within an urban neighborhood. Eib's Pond Park is a 17-acre wetland park in northeast Staten Island with a poorly planned surrounding community that houses a large number of low-income families.

Friends of the High Line
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a juried design competition to generate creative schemes for the reuse of the High Line, an abandoned elevated rail structure. The High Line runs for one and a half miles from the meatpacking district through Chelsea and up to the Javitz Center.

J Mandle Performance, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support Pedestrian Traces, an urban outdoor performance in collaboration with an architect and urban designer. The site-specific performance will provide an opportunity to educate and inform audiences about their impact on the shape of public spaces.

Mid-South Planning and Development Commission
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support a documentary exhibition on public housing in Chicago. The transformation of Stateway Gardens from a public housing complex to a mixed-income community will be documented through interviews, photographs and oral histories.

Museum of Modern Art (consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the design and production of a site-specific architectural installation at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. The project will create a public venue and provide critical exposure to emerging architects/designers.

Praxis, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$40,000
To support Praxis, an architectural journal that informs the architectural writer, builder, academic and professional by exploring the balance between theory and practice. Three volumes will be produced focusing on housing, the American landscape, and museums and merchandising.

Pueblo of Zuni
Zuni, NM
$20,000
To support an architectural design for an eagle aviary compound and related structures. In this second phase of the project, an eagle breeding ground, visitor facilities, orchards and landscape features will be added to the existing eagle aviary.

Spaces
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support an exhibition that investigates contemporary residential design in a Midwest context. Ten regional architects will exhibit design proposals for an aesthetically provocative, technologically advanced, single-family home that considers the needs and environment of a middle-income family.

University of Pennsylvania
(on behalf of the Institute of Contemporary Art)
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support a group show of architectural projects that examines complex techniques from architecture that bring together diverse fine and applied art practices. The exhibition will present work by emerging designers that is conceived and produced with computers and inspired by technological developments such as genetic engineering.

William Marsh Rice University (consortium)
Houston, TX
$30,000
To support a publication to document a panel discussion and site-specific architectural installations that examine the shotgun house within contemporary architectural design and theory. The publication will allow national dissemination of a project that will be unable to travel.

Windows of Opportunity, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To design and produce a traveling exhibition and catalogue on a housing design competition sponsored by the Chicago Housing Authority and the NEA New Public Works initiative. The competition's goal was to stimulate creative vision and design excellence in Chicago public housing and this project seeks to encourage a broader awareness and a national discussion on the subject.

Heritage/Preservation

Alaska Design Forum, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$22,500
To support the book project QUONSET: The Ongoing History of Quonset Huts in Alaska. Through research and documentation the Alaska Design Forum intends to show the impact Quonset huts have had on the built environment and culture of post-World War II Alaska.

Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support New Village Journal, a publication that presents case studies of grassroots projects about cultural heritage and neighborhood spirit that serve immigrant communities, children, youth, the physically ill and others. Examples of cultural and physical renewal in some of the most challenged urban neighborhoods will be presented.

Connecticut Architecture Foundation
(on behalf of Architecture Resource Center)
$15,000
New Haven, CT
To support the publication Hartford: Making of a Capital. The project encompasses a design based, interdisciplinary, cultural heritage education program and curriculum materials for middle schools.

Cranbrook Educational Community
(on behalf of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum)
$15,000
Bloomfield Hills, MI
To support a conservation plan for the Saarinen House and adjoining mirrored Milles House, both designed by the prominent early 20th century architect Eliel Saarinen. The project will develop objectives and criteria for the long-term conservation of the buildings' fabric, interior finishes and collection.

Emerald Necklace Conservancy
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the rehabilitation of a Henry Hobson Richardson designed gatehouse. The project will serve as the first permanent exhibition and visitor center exploring the Olmsted-designed parks and waterways constituting the Emerald Necklace park system.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Mother Lode Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$22,500
To support the community distribution strategy for the documentary Downside UP. The documentary relates the conversion of a New England industrial mill into MASS MoCA, America's largest contemporary art museum.

Historic Richmond Foundation
Richmond, VA
$20,000
To support feasibility, schematic designs, and construction documents for the restoration and conservation of Monumental Church. The restoration of this national historic landmark will make the building available as an active community center.

National Trust for Historic Preservation (on behalf of Lyndhurst)
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the reinstallation of the A.J. Davis 1842 Gothic Revival parlor at Lyndhurst. A.J. Davis was one of America's earliest architects to unify space and furnishings and the Lyndhurst parlor is considered one of the masterpieces demonstrating this unification.

National Trust for Historic Preservation
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support research, technical assistance, organization and material development for Community-Centered Historic Schools, a preservation tool that will help citizens save endangered historic schools. The materials developed for the project will provide evidence that it is economically wiser to maintain and update historic neighborhood schools.

Partners for Sacred Places, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support Sacred Trust, a national conference to disseminate a wide range of practical information about preserving historic religious properties. The conference will feature 20 comprehensive sessions led by nationally known experts on religious architecture, building maintenance and repair, building management, community outreach, and fundraising.

Preservation Alliance of New Orleans, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support selected commissions for affordable houses inspired by the architecture of existing New Orleans historical houses. Architects to design and produce plans for the housing will be chosen by an advisory committee.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
$10,000
To support documentation of the acoustical properties of Troy Music Hall using the latest measurement technology for sound documentation. The documentation of Troy Music Hall will aid in the design, understanding and preservation of musical performance spaces.

University of Maryland Baltimore County Campus
(on behalf of Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery)
$20,000
Baltimore, MD
To support production of the traveling exhibition Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter, an accompanying publication, and educational programming. The exhibition will present Carter-designed typefaces and analysis from designers and institutions that have worked with or commissioned Carter's typefaces.

New Public Works

Archeworks (on behalf of the City of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$75,000
To support a design competition for a proto-typical living and learning center that combines intergenerational housing and early-childhood educational programs in Chicago. The design competition will emphasize universal design principles to provide accessible facilities for all users.

Proposed jurors include Lee Bey (Chicago Mayor's office), Eva Maddox (Director, Archeworks), Eric Owen Moss (Director, Sci-Arc), Nasrine Seraji (Chair, Dept. of Architecture, Cornell University), and Sandro Marpillero (Marpillero/Pollak Architects). The competition advisor is architect Ralph Lerner.

Contact: http://www.archeworks.org

City of Trenton
Trenton, NJ
$75,000
To support an open, two-stage design competition for an addition to and the renovation of an historic elementary school. The competition will encourage the design of a community-centered school.

The jury will include Monica Ponce d'Leon (Office dA), Nasrine Seraji (Chair, Dept. of Architecture, Cornell University), Dana Cuff (Community Design Associates) and Jessie Reiser (RUR Architecture). The competition advisor is architect Ralph Lerner.

Contact: http://www.ci.trenton.nj.us

El Paso County District #20 Academy
Colorado Springs, CO
$75,000
To support a limited competition for the design of a K-12 educational facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The designers will be asked to create a fully accessible school that is part of a larger campus environment.

Invited designers include Will Bruder (Will Bruder Architects, Ltd.), Karen Bausman (Karen Bausman & Associates), Brad Cloepfil (Allied Works Architecture), Laurie Hawkinson (Smith-Miller + Hawkinson), and Rick Joy (Rick Joy Architects). The competition advisor is Roger Schluntz, Dean, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico.

Contact: http://www.d20.co.edu

Fashion Institute of Technology
New York, NY
$75,000
To support a limited competition for the design of an educational facility that will respond to the curricular needs and technological demands of the expanding school. Designers will also be asked to reorient the main entrance to the school, creating a stronger public presence for the institution.

Among the designers under consideration are Preston Scott Cohen, Neil M. Denari, Diller + Scofidio, MVRDV and Machado + Silvetti. The jurors include Karen Van Lengen (Dean, Dept. of Architecture, University of Virginia), Steven Holl (Steven Holl Architects), Joel Sanders (Joel Sanders Architects), Terrence Riley (Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, MOMA) and Reed Kroloff (former Editor-in-Chief of Architecture Magazine). The competition advisor is architect Casey Jones.

Contact: http://www.fitnyc.edu

Four Seasons Arts Council
(on behalf of the Old Mill Steering Committee)
Hendersonville, NC
$50,000
To support a limited design competition for the conversion of an historic hosiery mill into a performing arts space in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The project will be a demonstration of the integration of contemporary and historic architecture.

The jury will include community representatives as well as Coleman Coker (BuildingStudio), Merill Elam (Mack Scogin and Merill Elam), and Ned Cramer (Architectural Critic and Editor, Architecture Magazine) The competition advisor is Robert Burns, Dean of the School of Architecture at North Carolina State University.

Contact: http://www.henderson-arts.org

Greater Fulton Hill Civic Association
Richmond, VA
$75,000
To support a limited competition for the design of an alternative day-care facility and boarding school for elementary students in Richmond, Virginia. The school will focus on the needs of at-risk children and community outreach programming.

Invited designers include Stamberg Aferiate, Michael Willis & Associates, ShoP, Huff Gooden Architects, Weiss/Manfredi, DeBartelo Architects, and Stanley Saitowitz. Invited jurors include Ann Hamilton (Sculptor), Julie Bargmann (Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia), Leslie Gill (Leslie Gill Architect) and Mabel Wilson (Assistant Professor, California College of Arts and Crafts). The competition advisor is Reed Kroloff, former Editor-in-Chief of Architecture Magazine.

Contact: http://www.fultonhill.org

Kent State University Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio
Kent, OH
$75,000
To support an open, two-stage national design competition for the reconstruction of an elementary school in the Slavic Village neighborhood of Cleveland. The design will serve as a model for subsequent projects in the school district.

Proposed jurors include Sheila Kennedy (Kennedy & Violich Architecture), Ralph Johnson (Perkins & Will), Peter Pfau (Pfau Architects), Merril Elam (Mack Scogin Merril Elam), Karen Fairbanks (Marble … Fairbanks Architects), Walter Hood (Chair, Landscape Architecture, UC Berkeley), Alex Krieger (Chair of Urban Design, GSD, Harvard University) and Sarah Graham (Angelil Graham). The competition advisors are Reed Kroloff, former Editor-in-Chief of Architecture Magazine and architect Casey Jones.

Contact: http://udc.saed.kent.edu/

Local Initiatives Support Corporation
(on behalf of Livable Places, Inc.)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support an open, two-stage design competition for mixed-use housing in a former industrial site in the city of Carson, outside of Los Angeles. The project will be a prototype for new in-fill housing throughout the country.

The competition jury will include Shigeru Ban (Shigeru Ban & Associates), Anita Berrizbeita (Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania), Roger Sherman (Roger Sherman Architecture), Neil M. Denari (former Director, Sci-Arc), Ryan Lehman (Exec. Director, Livable Places), and Matt Petersen (Exec. Director, Global Green USA). The competition advisor is Richard Weinstein, UCLA School of Architecture.

Contact: http://www.livableplaces.org

Nature Conservancy, Inc.
Waipahu, HI
$75,000
To support an open, two-stage design competition in the city of Kapolei on the Leeward Coast of Oahu, Hawaii for the design of a sustainable building to house a learning center for children. The facility will serve as a learning and training tool connecting ecology with arts and culture.

Jurors will include Patricia Patkau (Patkau Architects), Billie Tsien (Todd Williams Billie Tsien & Associates), W.H. Raymond Yeh (Dean, School of Architecture, University of Hawaii) and Robert Mangurian (Studio Works). The competition advisor is architect Michael Pittas.

Contact: http://www.nature.org

Salt Lake City Corporation
Salt Lake City, UT
$50,000
To support an open competition for the design of a pedestrian crossing, linking a major open space with an historic neighborhood center in Utah. Competitors will be asked to design an infrastructural element that addresses the needs of all users.

The jury will include community representatives, Stephen A. Goldsmith (Planning Director, Salt Lake City Corp.), Linda Pollak (Principal, MPArchitects), Michael Sorkin, (Michael Sorkin Studio). The competition advisor is Roger Schluntz, the Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico.

Contact: http://www.slcgov.com

San Jose State University Foundation
San Jose, CA
$50,000
To support an open, two-stage design competition for a museum of contemporary art and design on the urban campus of San Jose State University in San Jose, California. The building provides the necessary expansion for this regional art center.

The jurors will include Carlos Jimenez (Carlos Jimenez Studios), Greg Lynn (Greg Lynn FORM) and Mabel Wilson (Assistant Professor at California College of Arts and Crafts). The competition advisor is environmental planner William H. Liskamm.

Contact: http://www.sjsu.edu

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
$75,000
To support a limited competition for the design of an interdisciplinary educational facility on the Storrs campus. The building will unify the various divisions and areas of the School of Fine Arts.

The invited jury will include Deborah Berke (Deborah Berke Architect, PC), Rodolfo Machado (Machado + Silvetti), and Robert Campbell (Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and architect). Invited designers include Renzo Piano (Renzo Piano Building Workshop), Zaha Hadid (Studio 9), Mack Scogin and Merril Elam, Will Bruder and Weiss/Manfredi. The competition advisors are Reed Kroloff, former Editor-in-Chief of Architecture Magazine and architect Casey Jones.

Contact: http://www.sfa.uconn.edu

Van Alen Institute
New York, NY
$50,000
To support an open competition for the perimeter and adjacent areas of the former site of the World Trade Center. Competitors will be asked to design an Information Center, as well as a way of orienting visitors to the site.

Invited jurors include Toshiko Mori (Chair, Architecture Dept., Harvard University), Nasrine Seraji (Chair, Dept. of Architecture, Cornell University), Amanda Burden (Chair of the City Planning Commission, NYC), Alexander Garvin (Director of Planning and Design, Lower Manhattan Development Corp.) and Billie Tsien (Todd Williams Billie Tsien & Associates).

Contact: http://www.vanalen.org

Organizational Capacity

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support meetings and workshops between design professionals, politicians and policy makers regarding urbanism. The purpose of this project is to provide the necessary leadership on practical issues and solutions that affect, revitalize and transform urban environments.

Design Corps
Raleigh, NC
$34,000
To support a publication and conferences that focus on providing quality design services to those not traditionally served by architects. The project will promote and discuss services for community design centers, nonprofit organizations, and design/build programs as well as encourage alternative career paths for students and young designers.

Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture (consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support research, a conference and a publication designed to strengthen urban public architecture. Urban Design: Premises, Pedagogies, Practices, a two day conference, will bring together groups who rarely have the opportunity for reflection and discussion of urban design as a discipline.

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