Past New York State Council on the Arts League-sponsored Independent Projects Grantees
The Architecture + Design Program of the New York State Council on the Arts awards project grants for professionals in the architecture, design, and historic preservation fields through its Independent Projects category. Individuals must apply through a nonprofit sponsor. The Architectural League welcomes anyone interested to apply through the League.
Recipients of League-sponsored Independent Project grants from the New York State Council on the Arts
2021
Josef Asteinza
Havana Modern: The Architecture of Nicolás Quintana
Natalie Fizer and Glenn Forley
Tailoring Form: A critical look at the template and a visual manual of use
Naomi Hersson-Ringskog, Liz McEnaney, and Patra Jongjitirat
Building Shells : Building Community
Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem
Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism/Outdoor Interiors
Edward Hsu
Modest and Monumental – An Alternate History of Washington Heights
Karen Kubey
Good Neighbors II
Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovik
ON ASHES: Design Strategies for Decaying Ash Tree Populations
Aleksandr Mergold
American Spolia: A Loose Inventory
Erkin Özay
The East Baltimore Renewal Map
Elsa Ponce Vargas
The Corner: Designing for Equity and Inclusion
Sami Sikanas
Queer Landscapes
Georgeen Theodore, Tobias Armborst, and Daniel D’Oca
Sounds of Southern Boulevard
2020
Alicia Ajayi
FVRi: Freedom Village Research Institute
Julia Jamrozik
Growing up Modern
Leopoldo Villardi
Troy Modern: The Life, Work, and Pedagogy of Kenneth L. Warriner, Jr. (1930–2009)
2019
Joel Sanders and Seb Choe
Stalled!: Inclusive Restroom Guidelines
Peter Yeadon
Fungal Bioplastics as Creative Medium
2018
Lori Baker Brown
The Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture
Tei Carpenter
The Plasticshed
Emma Fuller
Civic Architecture: Z+B
Silvia Fuster
Architecture and Stuff
Alejandra Navarrete Llopis
This is not your door: Spaces of Exclusion in New York—The Lottery, the Membership, and the Application
2017
Kerri Culhane
Chinese Style: Architecture and Identity in New York’s Chinatown
Joel Sanders
Stalled!: Gender-Neutral Bathroom Prototype
Chat Travieso
Yes Loitering
2016
Jennifer Birkeland and Jonathan A. Scelsa
The Gowanus Roof-scape
Richard W. Hayes
Housing New York: The Recent Past
Nahyun Hwang
Excise City
Jenna M. McKnight
Brick by Brick: The Extraordinary Life and Work of Diébédo Francis Kéré
Barbara Prete
Building Westbeth: A Home for the Arts
2015
Lydia Kallipoliti
Closed Worlds
Arianne Kouri
1959 Soviet Show in New York
Aleksandr Mergold
Sural Atlas of Central New York
Christopher Rawlins
Bachelor Pad: An Illustrated History
Phyllis Ross
The Design Works of Bedford Stuyvesant
Jin Young Song
Z-E-A-F (Zero Energy Adaptive Façade)
Ife Vanable
Working the Middle – A Revival
Marie Warsh
Design Play and Preservation in Central Park
2014
Susannah Drake
Mapping Urban Flow
Devin Lafo
Brownsville Student Farm Pavilion
Jesse LeCavalier and Angie Co
Public Facility
John Rhett Russo
Soundscape – Architectural Acoustic Ceramics
2013
Matthew Donham and Rebecca Hill
Above Water
Christopher Payne
North Brother Island
2012
Karen Kubey
Suburban Alternatives
2011
John Gendall
New York as Religious Landscape
2010
Carol Clark
Reinventing Neighborhood Preservation
Susannah Drake
The Ecology of Waterfront Architecture
Kian Goh
Queerspaces
Alfred Zollinger
Tolerance in Architectural Production
2009
Terri Chiao and Deborah Grossberg Katz
An Alternate Housing Strategy
Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, and Georgeen Theodore
NORCs in NYC
2008
Adrienne Cortez
NYC Uncapped
Margaret Morton
Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan
Mark Rakatansky
How to Read a Building
2007
Susannah Drake
Reconnection Strategies
Julie Farris
Urban Meadow Bklyn
Bradley Samuels
Mapping Frontiers: The Expanding U.S. Border
2005
Harry Allen
Architecture and Design in Quake III Arena
Pierre de Looz and Corey Hoelker
Housing the City
Phyllis Ross
The Designs of Gilbert Rohde, 1894-1944
2004
Nina Edwards
Roof Shelter for Red Hook, Brooklyn
Jorge Other-Pailos
Rearguard Modernism
Christopher Payne
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Rosemary Suh and Shawn Watts
Sebago Canoe Club
2003
Karen Fairbanks
New Media and the Design of Learning Environments
James Russell
Building Livable American Places in the 21st Century
2002
Andrew Garn
The Architecture of Incarceration
2000
Christopher Payne
Substations and the Architecture of Electricity
Jesse Reiser
Handbook of Novel Tectonics
Michael Sheridan
Alternative Transformations in Public Housing