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MACON SMITH RESEARCH GRANTS

These grants are named for Macon Smith FAIA. From 1996-1999 Smith was instrumental in the publication of an award-winning historical chronology of AIA North Carolina, History of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1913-1988: An Architectural Heritage. He served on countless AIA boards and committees and won both the 2001 Deitrick Medal and the 2006 F. Carter Williams Gold Medal, the highest honors presented by AIA North Carolina.

In early 2008, he spent many hours scouring his own records and driving around Raleigh with TMH Founder George Smart to locate Modernist houses around Raleigh.

See Smith's bio and projects here.

TMH established the Macon Smith Research Grant Program in 2009 to support research into residential Modernist architecture and architects. Grants of up to $1,000 are available to private citizens, academics, or institutions. To apply, send an email with a proposal of 150 words or less.

In July 2009, the first MSRG was awarded to David Hill, Assistant Professor of Architecture, NC State University, for travel to Oakland CA to interview architect George Matsumoto. In 2011, David Hill won a second MSRG. He and his students at the NCSU College of Design will create digital models of George Matsumoto houses to be posted on TMH and elsewhere.

Description: cid:D4B6A5BB-40DA-4492-8B1A-04354096741D@Belkin A 2011 MSRG also went to Tyler Merkel, who will create infrastructure for his website, MidCentury Michigan, as well as research Alden Dow houses for TMH.

A 2012 MSRG supports Randall Mayes for research into Charlotte's A. G. Odell and J. N. Pease. Mayes is a policy analyst specializing economic development, nanotechnology, genomics, and synthetic biology; and author of The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running and Revolutions: Paving the Way for the Bioeconomy. Mayes has a Master’s degree from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University.