The Society of Architectural Historians announces three new grants totaling $16,000 as part of the Winter 2024-25 funding cycle. Receiving grants are: Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and Taliesin Preservation, Inc. Read below how each recipient will connect with learners.

These grants help fund awe-inspiring design education programs for youth and docent-led architecture and landscape tours administered by nonprofit organizations. Since its inception, the program has supported architectural and cultural heritage organizations, house museums, creative placemaking sites, summer workshops focusing on architecture and design, schools of architecture with youth outreach programs, and arts and architecture high schools.

SAH established the Field Trip program in 2015 through an anonymous gift from a generous SAH member. The goal of the grant program is to share the wonders of architecture and landscapes with students whose educational interests in the arts and humanities have been underserved due to racial, social, or economic inequity.

Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research - Awarded $6,000

The Cranbrook Center Summer 2025 Architecture Elective for Horizons-Upward Bound (HUB) Students will include different activities curated for HUB students during their 2025 six-week residential component on Cranbrook’s campus, including on/offsite field trips, tours, activities, and an architecture lecture. Students will receive a broad introduction to architecture and an opportunity to explore architecture as a profession. 

This higher educational level course made up of eight, ninety-minute sessions will merge lecture content with related field trips on and off the Cranbrook campus. Field trip destinations within Cranbrook Educational Community will include Cranbrook’s Albert Kahn-designed Cranbrook House, Eliel Saarinen-designed Saarinen House, and Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Smith House, as well as the Cranbrook Archives and Cranbrook Academy of Art Architecture studios. Additionally, students will be able to experience a field trip to Downtown Detroit, including a visit to at least one notable architecture firm.

Overall, more than 130 HUB students participate in the six-week Summer HUB Residential component and, if scheduling permits, the Cranbrook Center will provide opportunities for all students to experience an architecture field trip on the Cranbrook campus.

This grant supports a new educational partnership between the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the Cartwright School District 83 in the greater Phoenix area. Cartwright District is an entirely Title One District, meaning at least 40% of students are from low-income households. During the Spring 2025 semester, the entire 6th grade class — 1,500 students— will visit Taliesin West free of charge. 

For more information about a specific field trip program, please contact the organizations directly.

Cover image: High school students participate in a Cranbrook Center curator-led tour of the Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith House (Wright, 1949). 

The Society of Architectural Historians announces three new grants totaling $16,000 as part of the Winter 2024-25 funding cycle. Receiving grants are: Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and Taliesin Preservation, Inc. Read below how each recipient will connect with learners.

These grants help fund awe-inspiring design education programs for youth and docent-led architecture and landscape tours administered by nonprofit organizations. Since its inception, the program has supported architectural and cultural heritage organizations, house museums, creative placemaking sites, summer workshops focusing on architecture and design, schools of architecture with youth outreach programs, and arts and architecture high schools.

SAH established the Field Trip program in 2015 through an anonymous gift from a generous SAH member. The goal of the grant program is to share the wonders of architecture and landscapes with students whose educational interests in the arts and humanities have been underserved due to racial, social, or economic inequity.

Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research - Awarded $6,000

The Cranbrook Center Summer 2025 Architecture Elective for Horizons-Upward Bound (HUB) Students will include different activities curated for HUB students during their 2025 six-week residential component on Cranbrook’s campus, including on/offsite field trips, tours, activities, and an architecture lecture. Students will receive a broad introduction to architecture and an opportunity to explore architecture as a profession. 

This higher educational level course made up of eight, ninety-minute sessions will merge lecture content with related field trips on and off the Cranbrook campus. Field trip destinations within Cranbrook Educational Community will include Cranbrook’s Albert Kahn-designed Cranbrook House, Eliel Saarinen-designed Saarinen House, and Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Smith House, as well as the Cranbrook Archives and Cranbrook Academy of Art Architecture studios. Additionally, students will be able to experience a field trip to Downtown Detroit, including a visit to at least one notable architecture firm.

Overall, more than 130 HUB students participate in the six-week Summer HUB Residential component and, if scheduling permits, the Cranbrook Center will provide opportunities for all students to experience an architecture field trip on the Cranbrook campus.

This grant supports a new educational partnership between the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the Cartwright School District 83 in the greater Phoenix area. Cartwright District is an entirely Title One District, meaning at least 40% of students are from low-income households. During the Spring 2025 semester, the entire 6th grade class — 1,500 students— will visit Taliesin West free of charge. 

For more information about a specific field trip program, please contact the organizations directly.

Cover image: High school students participate in a Cranbrook Center curator-led tour of the Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith House (Wright, 1949).