Announcing the award of $390,000 to support 33 projects led by organizations around the world—including exhibitions, publications, and other public presentations—that foster the development and exchange of ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society, furthering the mission of the Graham Foundation. These projects expand understanding, methods, and platforms of contemporary architecture discourse and feature work by architects, archivists, artists, curators, designers, educators, and other professionals working with organizations worldwide in cities such as Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Nashville, Athens, New York, and Chicago where the Graham Foundation is based.

The new grantees join a global network of organizations and individuals that the Graham Foundation has supported since its founding in 1956. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than $44 million in direct support to over 5,100 projects by organizations and individuals.

The complete list of the 2024 organizational grantees follows, and descriptions of the awarded projects begin on page 4. To learn more about the new grants, click on any grantee name below to visit their online project page, or go to grahamfoundation.org/grantees.

EXHIBITIONS 

a83 (New York)
a83 Exhibition Program, 2024–25

The Architectural League of New York (New York)
Living Legend: Cross Bronx

Carnegie Museum of Art—Heinz Architectural Center (Pittsburgh, PA)
Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: City of Rooms

Center for Architecture (New York)
Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture

Citygroup (New York)
Citygroup Exhibition and Debate Program, 2025

Craft Contemporary (Los Angeles)
Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design

Hunter College Art Galleries (New York)
Andrea Blum: BIOTA

LIGA—Space for Architecture (Mexico City)
LIGA Exhibition Program, 2025

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph

Prospect New Orleans (New Orleans)
Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home

Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York)
Swamplands

Swiss Institute (New York)
Energies

FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS 

Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal)
Groundwork: A Film Series on Alternative Modes of Engagement in Architecture

Critical Design Lab (Vanderbilt University) and The DisOrdinary Architecture Project (Nashville, TN)
Disability Meets Architecture: A Translational Repository for Critical Accessible Practice

Innovando la Tradición (Oaxaca, Mexico)
LEOPOLDO. Living Treasures Series

PUBLIC PROGRAMS 

City College of New York—J. Max Bond Center for Urban Futures (New York)
ARCH at Sixty: Bridging Past Visions with Present Realities

di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art and California Indian Museum and Cultural Center (Napa, CA)
Towards an Archaeology of the Future

The Funambulist (Paris)
The Funambulist Conversations

Lampo (Chicago)
Lampo Concert Series at the Graham Foundation

The World Around (New York)
The World Around Summit 2025

PUBLICATIONS

Borderless Studio and MAS Context (Chicago and San Antonio, TX)
Beyond Closure: Reimagining Possibilities for Chicago’s Closed Schools

Boulouki Itinerant Workshop (Athens)
Under the Landscape: Disciplinary Convergences and Emerging Alliances of Worlding

Brazilian Institute of Architects—Sao Paulo Department (Brasília, Brazil)
Terra

Chimurenga (Cape Town, South Africa)
African Mobilities – A Library of Circulations

Deem Journal (Los Angeles and New York)
Deem Journal, Issue 6: Inventing the Institution

INSITE (San Diego, CA)
INSITE Journal_07: A Timeless Way to Build

The Jewish Museum (New York)
Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines

Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston)
PLAT 14

Syracuse University—School of Architecture (Syracuse, NY)
Ethical Narratives: Essays by Richard Ingersoll (1949–2021)

University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles)
POOL, Issue No. 10

University of Illinois at Chicago—School of Architecture (Chicago)
Pollen – The UIC/SoArch Journal #2

University of the Witwatersrand—School of Arts (Johannesburg, South Africa)
ellipses [spatial praxis]: Critical Perspectives in Publishing Creative Research

Urban Design Forum and The Architectural League of New York (New York)
New City Critics

 

Image: Photographer unknown, “Participant in fantasy environment exercise in Phyllis Birkby and Leslie Kanes Weisman’s course ‘Women and the Built Environment: Personal, Social, and Professional Perceptions,’ at the first session of the Women's School of Planning and Architecture,” Biddeford, Maine, August 1975. Photograph, 6 x 9 in. Courtesy Women's School of Planning and Architecture Records, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA. From the 2024 grant to Center for Architecture for the exhibition “Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture”