Anne Tyng, Concept sketches for the exhibition "Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry" at the Graham Foundation, 2010 

The Graham Foundation reflects upon the passing of architect and theorist Anne Tyng. In 1965, Tyng was one of the first women to receive a fellowship from the Graham Foundation for her project Anatomy of Form: The Divine Proportion in the Platonic Solids. Last spring the Graham Foundation, in conjunction with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, was pleased to present the exhibition Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry. The catalog for this exhibition, co-published by the ICA and the Graham Foundation, is forthcoming.  Tyng was also interviewed this past summer by contemporary art curator, critic and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist and architect Bjarke Ingels as part of a Graham Foundation grant to the Institute of the 21^st Century.

To read Anne Tyng’s obituary in DomusWeb, click here. To read the New York Times obituary, click here.

To read about Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry at the Graham Foundation, click here.

To read more about the grantee project with Anne Tyng, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Bjarke Ingels, click here.

Image: John Russell Pope, proposal for the Lincoln Memorial, 1912, Washington, DC, USA. From the exhibition "Unbuilt Washington" on view at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC until May 28, 2012. 

The application deadline for the Graham Foundation’s 2012 Grants to Organizations is February 25, 2012. Eligible organizations are invited to apply for Production and Presentation Grants to support work on projects that begins after September 15, 2012.

Candidates interested in applying for a grant must submit an Inquiry Form. The Inquiry Form for the 2012 Grants to Organizations is now available on the Graham Foundation website. The Inquiry Form is the first stage of a two-stage application process and is submitted online.

Throughout its 55-year history, the Foundation has awarded more than 3,800 grants totaling over 32 million dollars to support projects in the field of architecture that reach new audiences, generate critical public dialogue, and advance architectural discourse.

In the 2011 Grants to Organizations cycle, the Graham Foundation awarded over $560,000 to 47 organizations for the production and public presentation of publications, exhibitions, films, new media initiatives, and other programs. You can browse these project profiles by clicking here.

For more information about our grantmaking, to learn if your project is eligible for funding, and to access the Inquiry Form, please click here to see our grant guidelines.

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.

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