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Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.
Model Studies is curated by and features a new body of work by artist Thomas Demand and selected works from Fernand Léger, Francis Bruguière, Thomas Scheibitz, and photos by architecture students at the Constructivist school VKhUTEMAS in Moscow. Together, the works in the exhibition dismantle a rigid, formal worldview and explore methods of representation other than realism. Seeking new ways to construct meaning, figuration and traditional forms of narrative give way to alternative approaches to making, seeing, and understanding the world. Central to this idea is the model, from its most literal to its most abstract manifestation.
This cinéma vérité style documentary presents a fresh look at the architect, craftsman, urban theorist, philosopher, and early Graham Grantee, Paolo Soleri. Following the screening, please join us for a QandA with co-producer Roger Tomalty and filmmaker Aimee Madsen, and a reception in the Madlener House library.
The bookshop is open during normal gallery hours (Wed-Sat 11AM-5PM).
The Graham Foundation bookshop is now carrying a special reprint edition of Pamphlet Architecture 6, as originally designed by architect Lebbeus Woods in 1980.
Perishable is an initiative by the Center for Land Use Interpretation and independent interpreter Nicola Twilley to research and document the architecture, infrastructure, and mobile apparatus of cold preservation in the United States.
In this fascinating reassessment of postmodern architecture at the end of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Petit addresses the role of irony and finds a vitality and depth of dialectics largely ignored by historical critiques.
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