Rachel Remmel, Department of Art History at the U of C, is the recipient of the $15,000 2005 Carter Manny Award to assist with her dissertation, "The Origins of American School Building: Boston Public School Architecture, 1800-1860."
The annual competition, sponsored by the Graham Foundation, "funds the research and writing of academic dissertations by promising young scholars" with architecture related topics. A list of prior recipients is posted here.
$10,000 and the Trustees' Merit Citation were awarded to two additional scholars: Vincent L. Michael of the Art History Department of UIC, and M. Ijlal Muzaffar, a student in the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT.
The full press release, also listing the eight students receiving Citations of Special Recognition, their schools and their topics, can be found in the first comment appended to this post.
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2005 CARTER MANNY AWARD COMPETITION
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2005 Carter Manny Award is Rachel Remmel of the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. Ms. Remmel will receive an award of $15,000 to assist with her dissertation, "The Origins of the American School Building: Boston Public School Architecture, 1800-1860.”
Also awarded were two Trustees’ Merit Citations and $10,000 each to Vincent L. Michael of the
Art History Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, working on “Motives and Methods in Historic District Preservation: The Role of the Community and the Academy”; and to M. Ijlal Muzaffar, a student in the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose doctoral thesis is on “The Periphery Within: Modern Architecture and the Making of the Third World.”
The Board of Trustees also acknowledged the work of eight students with Citations of Special Recognition.
The complete list of award recipients is below.
The Carter Manny Award competition was initiated in 1996 to honor Carter H. Manny, Jr., who served as Director of the Graham Foundation for twenty-three years and was known for his dedication to the support of young scholars and their work. The annual award competition funds the research and writing of academic dissertations by promising scholars who are candidates for a doctoral degree and whose dissertations focus on topics directly concerned with architecture or with other arts that are immediately contributive to the study of architecture.
This annual award program is one of the few sources of substantial funding for doctoral-level work on architectural topics. Each year the competition attracts outstanding proposals from doctoral students enrolled in schools in the U.S. and Canada who were nominated by their departments to apply for the award. The Manny award competition is an excellent indicator of the diversity and quality of work being undertaken by students at the Ph.D. level. The studies being pursued by the 2005 finalists, for example, range from work on the telephone’s influence on the urban form of Los Angeles to an investigation of the modernization of Cuba under an authoritarian political regime to experiments on environmental wayfinding among adults with intellectual disabilities.
Rachel Remmel, the recipient of the 2005 Award, is pursuing an examination of Boston public school architecture in the 19th century. The focus of her study is the Quincy School, a graded school whose multiple, small-scale, uniform classrooms became the model for American school architecture. Studying school design in the context of contemporary pedagogical theories and socializing and governmental institutions, Ms. Remmel seeks to explain why, “given the diversity of early 19th-century school types, the graded school emerged as the central enduring architectural form.” Having completed her research in the archives and libraries of Boston, Ms. Remmel will be assisted by the Manny award as she finishes writing her thesis.
For a list of prior recipients of the Carter Manny Award and for further general information about the Award, please consult the Graham Foundation’s web site, www.grahamfoundation.org.
GRAHAM FOUNDATION
2005 CARTER MANNY AWARD FINALISTS
CARTER MANNY AWARD WINNER
Rachel Remmel
Dept. of Art History
University of Chicago
The Origins of the American School Building: Boston Public School Architecture, 1800-1860
TRUSTEES’ MERIT CITATION
Vincent L. Michael
Art History Department
University of Illinois at Chicago
Motives and Methods in Historic District Preservation: The Role of the Community and the Academy
M. Ijlal Muzaffar
School of Architecture and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Periphery Within: Modern Architecture and the Making of the Third World
CITATION OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Eric Anderson
Dept. of Art History and Archeology
Columbia University
Theories of the Home: Politics and Social Science in German Architecture and Design Discourse, 1850-1890
Emily Bills
Institute of Fine Arts
New York University
The Telephone Shapes Los Angeles: Communications and Urban Form, 1880-1950
AnneMarie Brennan
School of Architecture
Princeton University
A Working Model of Utopia: Adriano Olivetti and the ‘Republic of the Intellect’
Simi Hoque
Dept. of Architecture
University of California, Berkeley
Borrowers, Bricoleurs, and Builders of Architectural Knowledge
CITATION OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION (cont.)
Timothy Hyde
Architecture History and Theory Program, Graduate School of Design
Harvard University
Planning, Politics, and Palm Trees: Architecture and Modernity in Cuba, 1939-59
Hyun Tae Jung
History and Theory of Architeture, Graduate School of Architecture
Columbia University
Organization and Abstraction: The Architecture of SOM from 1936-1956
Juris Milestone
Dept. of Anthropology
Temple University
University Expertise and Community Design: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban Design Workshop
Patricia O. Salmi
Dept. of Design, Housing, and Apparel
University of Minnesota
Identifying and Evaluating Critical Environmental Wayfinding Factors for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities