The Graham Foundation has announced the winners of its 2026 Carter Manny Awards. The program recognizes emerging scholars whose work is intended to challenge and reshape architectural discourse.
The 2026 Carter Manny Writing Award, which comes with a $25,000 grant, went to Yeo-Jin (Katerina) Bong of the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.
Bong’s dissertation is titled “Tracing Layers: Building Beneath the Surface in the Italian Apennines, 1527–1650.” It examines how early modern geo-architects in the Papal States responded to unstable ground conditions.
According to the announcement, the research looks at collapsing foundations, shifting rivers, and seismic soils, and how those challenges were turned into an empirical and representational practice that treated the ground itself as a site of design.
The announcement was published by Archinect and cites the Graham Foundation’s Carter Manny Awards program, which the foundation says has run for 30 years.
