View of the Graham Foundation Bookshop designed by Ania Jaworska, Chicago. Photo Assaf Evron. 

After partnering with Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events to develop and launch the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015, the Graham Foundation returns to the Biennial’s second edition with the Graham Foundation Bookshop. Located in the Rooms for Books by Biennial participants Noëmi Mollet and Reto Geiser of MG&Co, adjacent to the Randolph Street entrance to the Chicago Cultural Center, the bookshop will be open during the Biennial’s preview on September 14 and 15, and throughout the run of the exhibition from September 16, 2017 to January 7, 2018. The bookshop will feature hundreds of titles related to the Biennial theme Make New History and new publications from around the world focused on architecture, design and art.

Since it was founded 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts has been dedicated to the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. In addition to supporting publications through grant-making, the Graham Foundation has published and co-published over 30 books, including the series Treatise, with individual volumes on emerging architecture and design offices such as Bittertang; Bureau Spectacular; CAMES/gibson; Design With Company; Fake Industries Architectural Agonism; First Office; is-office; Andrew Kovacs; Alex Maymind; Norman Kelley; Point Supreme; Softlab; SPEEDISM; and Young & Ayata. Recent co-publications include Thomas Demand: Model Studies I & II, published with Walther König, Köln, and In Progress: The IID Summer Sessions, edited by Irene Sunwoo and published with the Architectural Association, London. Forthcoming titles to be published by the Graham Foundation include: David Hartt: In the Forest and an artist book with Judy Ledgerwood, both to be published in fall 2017.

For over 60 years, the Graham has supported the publication of such seminal architecture books as Complexity and Contradiction by Robert Venturi, co-published by the Museum of Modern Art and the Graham Foundation in 1966, and Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York, published in 1978. In the last decade, the Graham Foundation has supported 450 publication grants. Recently supported titles include Cedric Price Works 1952-2003: A Forward-Minded Retrospective (2017) written and edited by Samantha Hardingham and published by Architectural Association Publications with the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Folio: Journal of African Architecture, Vol. 1: Pupae (2017) published by the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg.

The Graham Foundation Bookshop at the Chicago Architecture Biennial will include books by international publishers, such as: Aadcu; Actar; Acre; Applied Research & Design; Architectural Association Publications; Architecture at Rice; Arab Image Foundation; Archive; Art Against Art; Artez Press; Arquine; A+U Publishing; B42; Bard College Publications Office; Birkhäuser; Bloomsbury Academic; Book Works; Bom Dia Books; Canadian Centre for Architecture; Columbia College Chicago Press; Columbia GSAPP; Dabook; Dynamo Press; Dominica Press; Eakins Press Foundation, New York; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; GA Books; Guayaba Press; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; Half Letter Press; Harvard University, Graduate School of Design; Hatje Cantz; Henry Moore Institute; Houghton Mifflin; Images Publishing Distribution; Inventory Press; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; It: Editions; Ivorypress; Jap Sam Books; Kajima Institute; Lars Müller Publishers; Leete's Island Books; MIT Press; Monacelli Press; Mousse Publishing; NAi010 Publishers; Nazraeli Press; New Documents; Occasional Papers; Onomatopee; Phaidon; Park Books; Paternoster Press; Penguin Classics; Princeton Architectural Press; Quodlibet; REAL; Routledge; Ruby Press; SA+P Press; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Shelter Press; Soberscove Press; Spector Books; Sternberg Press; Strelka Press; Tang Museum; Testo & Immagine; The Menil Collection; Tundra Books; Ugly Duckling Presse; Uitgeverij 010 Publishers; University Of Minnesota Press; University of California Press; University Of Chicago Press; University of Illinois Press; University of Texas Press; Valiz; Valiz/Antennae Series; Valiz/Stroom Den Haag; Walther König, Köln; Westview Press; Wiley; Wits University Press; Yad Vashem Publications; Yale University Press; Zero Books, among others.