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Design: FY2003 Grants

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

Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation | Leadership | Panelists

Access

Alaska Design Forum, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$28,000
To support a lecture and workshop series on the built environment with internationally recognized architects and designers. Lectures will be presented in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau, and workshops will be held in Anchorage.

Design Corps
Raleigh, NC
$40,000
To support the completion of a community-based design project for a job training and day care center in Perry County, Alabama. The project began under the efforts of the late Sam Mockbee, founder of the Rural Studio and MacArthur Fellow recipient.

Florida International University (on behalf of Wolfsonian - FIU)
Miami, FL
$60,000
To support documentation and access to a Dutch industrial design collection dating from 1885 through 1945. The collection will be made accessible and searchable through the Web site.

Friends of the Schindler House (aka FOSH)
(on behalf of MAK Center for Art and Architectur, L.A.)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support public access to the MAK Center archives and to expand the Web site. The Web site expansion will create a virtual archive, an online index, and will allow online book sales and advance ticket purchases.

Pineapple Grove Main Street, Inc.
Delray Beach, FL
$35,000
To support the Delray Beach Cultural Loop, a walking tour that connects cultural heritage, arts and civic institutions, and the socioeconomic context of Delray Beach. A community process has identified significant places and buildings to include in the walking tour.

Creativity

Architectural League of New York
New York, NY
$25,000
To support WorldView reports. The reports include web-based presentations on the architecture and urban design of cities and regions around the world.

Center for the Study of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support the City Projects film series. The series will examine Los Angeles' reaction to the built environment.

Harlem Textile Works, Ltd.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Design as Enterprise. Master artists will provide young designers and artists the opportunity to learn design practices and marketable job skills in the creation of fabric designs.

Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
$20,000
To support a design charrette to generate concepts for Cleveland's Lake Erie waterfront. The charrette will stimulate public discussion about the lakefront site and opportunities for its redevelopment.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the commission of a temporary structure in the museum's public plaza. The project seeks to create innovative works of architecture and to educate new audiences about design and public space.

Museum of Modern Art
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 and designers.

Regents of the University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
$35,000
To support a publication and educational outreach project for a Mobile Dwelling Unit. The installation will be explore the conversion of a standard shipping container into a home.

Skyscraper Museum
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the commission of an architectural installation at the Skyscraper Museum. Artist James Turrell and architect Roger Duffy will create an entrance canopy that employs light to define space and volume.

Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences
Staten Island, NY
$25,000
To support an exhibition on the Snug Harbor Cultural Center. The exhibition will include historical, archival and newly commissioned work to demonstrate contemporary art and its meaning in a historical setting.

Storefront for Art and Architecture
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a traveling exhibition Architecture of the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1969. Featuring over 100 photographs taken from 1959 to 1969, the exhibit will include a lecture series, panel discussion and publication.

TNS (The Natural Step)
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support the research and development of a sustainable product design approach and toolkit. Case studies for sustainable product design will be documented and disseminated through a publication and articles in appropriate design journals.

University of Illinois at Chicago (on behalf of City Design Center)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support Out of the Box: Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing, an exhibition and catalog featuring low-cost housing. Nationally recognized designers have been invited to consider innovation in design, materials and manufacturing techniques for low-cost, factory-built housing.

Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture
New York, NY
$25,000
To support New Directions, a touring exhibition and accompanying publication. The project will present public spaces that reveal innovative thinking in urban design, planning and programming.

William Marsh Rice University
Houston, TX
$35,000
To support the development, creation and presentation of an adaptive, web-based master plan for Houston's Fifth Ward. The plan will assist this older, inner-city neighborhood to direct development forces in a manner sensitive to the current residents and built environment.

Heritage/Preservation

African American Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc.
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support a weekend workshop for design professionals, public school teachers and community leaders. The project will encourage community awareness of historic African-American sites and involve local neighborhood youth.

Cornerstones Community Partnerships
Santa Fe, NM
$35,000
To support educational workshops on the preservation of historic adobe structures in Mora County, New Mexico. The project will train rural communities in the preservation of their historic adobe buildings with a traditional building technique central to the Hispanic and Native-American cultures of the Southwest.

Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the nomination of Frank Lloyd Wright structures to the UNESCO World Heritage List. The nomination will focus on the comprehensive nature of Wright's contribution to modern architecture.

Preservation Oklahoma, Inc.
Oklahoma City, OK
$15,000
To support an exhibit and lecture series on Oklahoma's endangered historic properties. Activities will focus public attention on cultural resources such as archeological sites, historic theaters and other historic structures that are threatened by demolition, vandalism and neglect.

Price Tower Arts Center, Inc.
Bartlesville, OK
$20,000
To support the documentation of a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed space and furnishings. The research and documentation of the H.C. Price executive office and family apartment building will allow the space to be restored to its 1956 appearance.

School of the Building Arts, Inc. (consortium)
Charleston, SC
$55,000
To support Masters of the Building Arts, a festival showcasing the skills of master craftspeople. The festival will feature artisans such as stonecarvers, brick masons, woodcarvers and other craftspeople, in workshops, demonstrations and lectures.

Sierra Business Council
Truckee, CA
$20,000
To support the printing and Web placement of Sierra Town Patterns. The publication on historic buildings and downtown areas will offer information on cultural and historical assets in Sierra Nevada communities.

Women Make Movies, Inc. (on behalf of Travelfilm Company)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a documentary that depicts the history of Mason City, Iowa through a narrative about one building. The Park Inn, a hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, will be documented, presenting the building through its relationship to the city and urban history.

Leadership

Octagon, the Museum of The American Architectural Foundation
Washington, DC
$62,000
To support the conservation of the only extant original architectural model (1969-71) of the World Trade Center. Made by the offices of Minoru Yamasaki Associates for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the presentation model is all that remains to document that site in its original form.


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