Madlener House
4 West Burton Place
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Telephone: 312.787.4071
info@grahamfoundation.org

Mar 25, 2025

Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.

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UPCOMING EXHIBITION AT THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION

Swamplands
Apr 17, 2025 - Jul 19, 2025

Focusing on the ethical and technical entanglements of water,  Swamplands features works by Imani Jacqueline Brown; Jingru (Cyan) Cheng and Chen Zhan; Gala Porras-Kim; Fred Schmidt-Arenales; and a new commission by Jerónimo Reyes-Retana.

UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION

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Weston Olencki & Jennifer Torrence

Lampo Performance Series
Mar 22, 2025

NEW Grantee Publications

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Seeing <—> Making: Room for Thought

Susan Buck-Morss, Kevin McCaughey & Adam Michaels

PUBLICATION
(Inventory Press, 2024)

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AP205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the Archive by Studio Muoto, Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Canadian Centre for Architecture

PUBLICATION
(Spector Books/CCA, 2024)

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The Aquarium is a Listening Glass

Louise Emily Carver & Angela Rui

PUBLICATION
(Humboldt Books, 2024)

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Le Corbusier: Album Punjab 1951

Maristella Casciato

PUBLICATION
(Lars Müller Publishers, 2024)

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Also Known As

Michelle JaJa Chang

PUBLICATION
(The MIT Press, 2024)

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Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design

Craft Contemporary

PUBLICATION
(Craft Contemporary, 2024)

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Gerald Summers & Marjorie Butcher: Makers of Simple Furniture, 1931–1940

Martha Deese

PUBLICATION
(Hatje Cantz, 2024)

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Félix Candela from Mexico City to Chicago: Rise and Fall of Experimentation in Concrete

Alexander Eisenschmidt

PUBLICATION
(Actar Publishers, 2024)

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Resynthesizers

Equitable Vitrines

PUBLICATION
(Urbanomic, 2024)

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Building Institution: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York 1976–1985

Kim Förster

PUBLICATION
(transcript publishing, 2024)

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Raising the Curtain. Operatic Modernism and the Soviet Nations

Oxana Gourinovitch

PUBLICATION
(Spector Books, 2024)

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A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France

Vanessa Grossman

PUBLICATION
(Yale University Press, 2024)

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Queering Nawabi Lucknow: Architecture and the Colonial Archive

Sonal Mithal & Arul Paul

PUBLICATION
(Routledge, 2024)

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INSITE Journal_07: A Timeless Way to Build

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PUBLICATION
(INSITE Journal, 2024)

NEW Grantee Publications

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Chacarita Moderna: The Brutalist Necropolis of Buenos Aires by the Architect Itala Fulvia Villa

Léa Namer

PUBLICATION
(Building Books, 2024)

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Los Angeles Review of Architecture

New York Review of Architecture

PUBLICATION
(New York Review of Architecture, 2024)

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New York Review of Architecture #39

New York Review of Architecture

PUBLICATION
(New York Review of Architecture, 2024)

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The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation

Elizabeth J. Petcu

PUBLICATION
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)

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The Sixth Sphere

Brittany Utting

PUBLICATION
(Anyone Corporation, 2024)

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Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture

Judith Raum

PUBLICATION
(Hatje Cantz, 2024)

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This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb

Adair Rounthwaite

PUBLICATION
(University of Minnesota Press, 2024)

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Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930–1960

Robin Schuldenfrei

PUBLICATION
(Princeton University Press, 2024)

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Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage

Susan Slyomovics

PUBLICATION
(Stanford University Press, 2024)

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Architecture Follows Fish

André Tavares

PUBLICATION
(MIT Press, 2024)

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CROP 10: YIELD

Texas Tech University-College of Architecture

PUBLICATION
(Texas Tech College of Architecture, 2024)

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SPACE FOR FREE

Toronto Metropolitan University

PUBLICATION
(Toronto Metropolitan University, 2024)

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University of California, Berkeley-Architecture Department

PUBLICATION
(University of California, Berkeley, 2024)

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POOL, Issue No. 09: Loop

University of California, Los Angeles-Department of Architecture and Urban Design

PUBLICATION
(University of California, Los Angeles, 2024)

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Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa and South Asia

Victoria and Albert Museum

PUBLICATION
(V&A Publishing, 2024)

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Pollen – The UIC/SoArch Journal #1

University of Illinois at Chicago-School of Architecture

PUBLICATION
(UIC School of Architecture, 2024)

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Architecture + Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space, and Time

Beth Weinstein

PUBLICATION
(Routledge, 2024)

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Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time

Yale University Press

PUBLICATION (Yale University Press, 2024)

Current grantee exhibitions & Events

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Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sep 30, 2024 - Mar 16, 2025

EXHIBITION
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: City of Rooms

Carnegie Museum of Art-Heinz Architectural Center
Sep 21, 2024 - Jun 15, 2025

EXHIBITION
Heinz Architectural Center, Pittsburgh

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Making Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Nov 02, 2024 - Aug 10, 2025

EXHIBITION
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York


GRANTEE PODCASTS AND FILM SERIES

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Here There Be Dragons, Season Three: Stockholm

Jess Myers

PODCAST

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I Would Prefer Not To

Ana Miljački

PODCAST

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Architecture Off-Centre

Vaissnavi Shukl

PODCAST

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Planes, Trains, and Canes

Mona Minkara

YOUTUBE SERIES

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Design Emergency

Paola Antonelli & Alice Rawsthorn

PODCAST

Fred Schmidt-Arenales, "IT IS A GOOD PROJECT AND SHOULD BE BUILT," 2024. Film still. Courtesy the artist and Storefront for Art and Architecture; ; Installation view of Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: City of Rooms, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2024; photo: Zachary Riggleman