“Architecture defines a city, and no city has been defined by its architecture—or has influenced global architectural design—like Chicago.”

—Mayor Rahm Emanuel

In the fall of 2015, the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial—an international forum on architecture and the designed environment—will open in Chicago. The Biennial will bring the world’s leading architectural talent together to explore the ideas, ambitions, and challenges facing the contemporary city in an age of accelerated change. Featuring the work of both established and emerging architects, the Biennial will address the major concerns of our time: the social, environmental, aesthetic, technological, and economic issues that shape the world we live in.

Presented in partnership with the City of Chicago and the Graham Foundation, the Chicago Architecture Biennial will create new platforms to examine the past, present, and future of architecture.

BP is the Presenting Sponsor of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial.

To download the press release, click here, or visit www.chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org.

 

The Graham Foundation congratulates all of our grantees participating in the 14th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Additionally, we are pleased to provide major support to the U.S. pavilion for the exhibition ‘OfficeUS.’

 

Graham Foundation Grantees at the 2014 Venice Biennale
Rem Koolhaas (1974*), director of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition

Phyllis Lambert (CCA, 1991), recipient of the 2014 Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award

Iñaki Ábalos (2014), Lucia Allais (2006), Tom Avermaete (2005), Andrew Bryant (2013), Jean-Louis Cohen (2012), Beatriz Colomina (1987), Elizabeth Diller (1985), Keller Easterling (1991), Peter Eisenman (1966), Stanislaus Fung (2000), Joseph Grima (2010), Samantha Hardingham (2012), Li Hu (2009), Sam Jacob (2014), Charlie Koolhaas (2011), Michael Kubo (2008), Vladimir Kulić (2014), Jimenez Lai (2011), Alex Lehnerer (2011), Armin Linke (2011), Michael Meredith (2008), Ana Miljacki (2004), Hans Ulrich Obrist (2009), Lluís Ortega (2013), Kayoko Ota (2009), Kyong Park (2002), Michelle Provoost (2014), David Reinfurt (2013), Hilary Sample (2003), Felicity D. Scott (2011), Lola Sheppard (2014), Martino Stierli (2011), Yehre Suh (2008), André Tavares (2014), Wouter Vantisphout (2014), Shuo Wang (2013), Mark Wasiuta (2008), Eyal Weizman (2010), Mason White (2014)
*year of first Graham Foundation grant

 

Image: TAC Offices, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967. Photo: Ezra Stoller, Esto. From the 2014 Graham Foundation grant for the U.S. Pavilion exhibition ‘OfficeUS’ at the 14^th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

 

For more information about the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, click here.

 

The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts announces its 2014 Grants to Individuals, which will award over $520,000 to 68 projects that demonstrate innovative and thought-provoking ideas in architecture. The new grantees comprise a diverse and multi-disciplinary group of U.S. and internationally-based architects, designers, artists, scholars, writers, curators, and others, who were selected from a competitive pool of more than 700 applicants representing 40 countries. The grants will provide direct support to individuals for the research, development, and presentation of publications, exhibitions, films, new media initiatives, and other programs.

For a complete list of the 2014 Grants to Individuals and the grantee project pages, click here.

 

 

Image: Papineau Gérin-Lajoie Architects, "Gordon Robertson School Building, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada," 1973. Photo: Guy Gérin-Lajoie. From the 2014 Graham Foundation Individual Grant to Lola Sheppard & Mason White for "Many Norths: Spatial Practices in a Shifting Territory."

On May 15, the Graham Foundation will announce its 2014 Grants to Individuals. This year, over $520,000 will be awarded to 68 projects that foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The grants will provide direct support to a range of projects, including publications, exhibitions, films, new media initiatives, and other programs that reach public audiences and promote new discourse about architecture.

To explore the projects supported through the foundation's 2013 Grants to Individuals, click here.

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for a part-time Program Assistant position. This paid fellowship position is an ideal opporutnity for students of architecture, art, art education, history, design, and related programs interested in gaining experience at a non-profit arts organization, foundation, and/or cultural institution. Selected applicants will learn through active participation in tasks related to the foundation’s grants and public programming.

START DATE: April 21, 2014

END DATE: September 2014 with potential to extend

WORK SCHEDULE: Flexible. 2 days per week 11:00am – 6:00pm, and regular evening events.

COMPENSATION: Paid Fellowship

 

To learn more about the position and application process, click here.

2014 Carter Manny Award Deadline

The Carter Manny Award supports dissertation research and writing by promising scholars whose projects have architecture as their primary concern and focus and have the potential to shape contemporary discourse about architecture and impact the field. Projects may be drawn from the various fields of inquiry supported by the Graham Foundation: architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; the visual arts; and other related fields. The award assists students enrolled in graduate programs in architecture, art history, the fine arts, humanities, and the social sciences working on architecture topics.

The Graham Foundation is accepting applications for the 2014 Carter Manny Award now through March 15, 2014. For the award guidelines, eligibility information, and application, click here.

2014 Grants to Organizations Deadline

The application for the Graham Foundation’s 2014 Grants to Organizations is now available. Starting in 2014, the application for Grants to Organizations will be a one-stage process. The deadline to submit the application is February 25, 2014.

Organizations with eligible projects are invited to apply for a Production and Presentation Grant for projects that begin after September 15, 2014.

For more information about our grantmaking, to learn if your project is eligible for funding, and to access the application, see our grant guidelines.

In 2013, the Graham Foundation awarded more than $400,000 to 40 projects by organizations. You can browse these and other recently funded projects here.

The architectural bookshop at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, 2013. 

On Tuesday, December 17th, the Graham Foundation will celebrate the launch of its new architectural bookshop designed by Chicago-based Ania Jaworska with a reception and book sale. Located in the former dining room of the foundation’s historic Madlener House, a 1901 Prairie style mansion in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood, Jaworska’s installation is comprised of four bold mesh structures that display books and periodicals from the fields of architecture, design, art, and culture. In addition to recent hard to find publications, many titles are by the Graham Foundation’s international community of grantees and others are related to the Foundation’s exhibition program. The bookshop also carries select out-of-print titles.

HOURS

The bookshop is open Wednesday to Saturday from 11AM-6PM

HOLIDAY HOURS

The bookshop will be open Monday to Saturday from 11AM-6PM through December 23, 2013 (and closed December 24--January 1).

EVENT
Graham Foundation Bookshop Launch with designer Ania Jaworska
Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 6-8PM

To RSVP for the event click here or for more information call 312-787-4071

Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper, Untitled environment, 1972. Photograph by Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, courtesy of Emilio Ambasz. Environments and Counter Environments. "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape,” MoMA, 1972, Graham Foundation for Advanced Stud 

Journal of Architectural Eduction

Exhibition Review: Environments and Counter-Environments

by Esra Akcan

The Graham Foundation will be closed from November 28-29, 2013. We will reopen with normal gallery hours (11AM-6PM) on Saturday, November 30.

Our current exhibition Environments and Counter Environments. "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape,” MoMA, 1972 is on view through December 16, 2013.

 

The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013 Carter Manny Award. Ginger Nolan (Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation) is the winner of the writing award and a $20,000 grant for her dissertation Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Disciplines and Techniques of Creativity, 1880–1985. Sophie Hochhäusl (Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning) is the recipient of the research award and a $15,000 grant for her dissertation Modern by Nature: Architecture, Politics, and Socio-Technical Systems in Austrian Settlements and Allotment Gardens between Reform and the Welfare State, 1903–1953.

In addition, five students merited Citations of Special Recognition for their dissertation projects, whose diverse range includes a study of the intersection of surrealism and housing projects in mid-twentieth century Buenos Aires and an examination of the architecture of parish hall churches in medieval England.

These exceptional proposals were selected after a competitive review of 44 applications from doctoral students enrolled in schools throughout the U.S. and Canada. The review panel for the 2013 Carter Manny Award included Romi Crawford, Associate Professor, Visual and Critical Studies and Africana Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Timothy Hyde, Associate Professor of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; and Mark Linder, Associate Professor, Chancellor’s Fellow in the Humanities, Syracuse University School of Architecture.

This annual award program recognizes outstanding doctoral-level work on architectural topics by providing substantial funding for dissertation writing and research. The Foundation offers this prestigious annual award in honor of Carter H. Manny and his long and distinguished service to the Graham Foundation. Manny has served the foundation since its inception in 1956, first as a Trustee, then as the Director from 1971, and since his retirement in 1993, as Director Emeritus.

 

CARTER MANNY AWARD - WRITING

Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Disciplines and Techniques of Creativity, 1880–1985
GINGER NOLAN
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
An examination of how nineteenth- and twentieth-century architects and technological designers imagined the techniques of an allegedly primitive or originary intelligence as a way of developing new processes of design.

CARTER MANNY AWARD - RESEARCH

Modern by Nature: Architecture, Politics, and Socio-Technical Systems in Austrian Settlements and Allotment Gardens between Reform and the Welfare State, 1903–1953
SOPHIE HOCHHÄUSL
Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
This dissertation investigates the prehistory, construction and afterlife of Austrian settlements and allotment gardens, which, defined by inhabitant-builders and modern architects alike, gave rise to alternative economic models, organizational practices and technologies in the state of emergency.

CITATION OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION - WRITING

Domestic Architecture on the English Renaissance Stage
EMMA ATWOOD
Boston College, English Department

Lines of Utility: Outlines, Architecture, and Design in Britain, c. 1800
ALEXIS COHEN
Princeton University, Department of Art & Archaeology

Southern Surrealisms: Buenos Aires, 1936–1956
ANA MARÍA LEÓN CRESPO
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture

CITATION OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION - RESEARCH

Heritage of the Red Orient: Theories and Practices of Architectural Conservation in Soviet Central Asia
IGOR DEMCHENKO
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture

The Parish Hall-Churches of Norwich: Architecture and Identity in Late Medieval England
ZACHARY STEWART
Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology

 

To read more about the Carter Manny Award, including descriptions of this year’s winning projects and a complete list of past award recipients, click here.

 

Image: Small Garden, Settlement, and Housing Exposition, 1923, Vienna. Courtesy of Austrian League of Allotment Gardeners. From the 2013 Carter Manny Award to Sophie Hochhäusl for Modern by Nature: Architecture, Politics, and Socio-Technical Systems in Austrian Settlements and Allotment Gardens between Reform and the Welfare State, 1903–1953.

Gianni Pettena, Ice House II, 1972, Minneapolis, MN. From the 2013 Graham Foundation Organizational Grant to Woodbury University for Beyond Environment. Photo courtesy of Gianni Pettena. 

The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts is pleased to announce its 2013 Grants to Organizations. This year, over $448,000 has been awarded to 40 projects that demonstrate innovation and originality in approaches to architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The awarded projects were selected after a competitive review of over 200 submissions from organizations around the world. Among the projects that the Graham Foundation grants will support are a publication on Chandigarh and Casablanca by the Canadian Centre for Architecture; a series of online articles in Places Journal on how world cities are grappling with the consequences of modern geopolitics; an exhibition on architect Lebbeus Wood organized by the Southern California Institute of Architecture; and a dedicated architecture and environment residency at Headlands Center for the Arts.

For a complete list of the 2013 Grants to Organizations and the grantee project pages, click here.