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Jun 09, 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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NEWS

PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity, US Pavilion, 19th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia

May 10–November 23, 2025
PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity premieres at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice.
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Grantee Publications

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After Spaceship Earth: Art, Techno-utopia, and Other Science Fictions

Eva Díaz

PUBLICATION
(Yale University Press, 2025)

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Albert Kahn, Inc. and the Architecture of Capitalism, 1905–1961

Claire Zimmerman

PUBLICATION
(MIT Press, 2025)

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Also Known As

Michelle JaJa Chang

PUBLICATION
(The MIT Press, 2024)

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Analogous Jerusalem

Gili Merin

PUBLICATION
(Humboldt Books, 2025)

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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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Architectural Image-Making in 1980s New York: The John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers Collection

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PUBLICATION
(Spector Books, 2025)

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Architecture for Reading in Public: Henri Labrouste's Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève

Neil Levine

PUBLICATION
(Yale University Press, 2024)

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The Aquarium is a Listening Glass

Louise Emily Carver & Angela Rui

PUBLICATION
(Humboldt Books, 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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Building Solidarity Architectures: Collective Care in Times of Crisis

Elisavet Hasa

PUBLICATION
(Goldsmiths Press, 2025)

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

Alexander Eisenschmidt

PUBLICATION
(Actar Publishers, 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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INSITE Journal_07: A Timeless Way to Build

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PUBLICATION
(INSITE Journal, 2024)

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Le Corbusier: Album Punjab 1951

Maristella Casciato

PUBLICATION
(Lars Müller Publishers, 2024)

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Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design

Craft Contemporary

PUBLICATION
(Craft Contemporary, 2024)

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Queering Nawabi Lucknow: Architecture and the Colonial Archive

Sonal Mithal & Arul Paul

PUBLICATION
(Routledge, 2024)

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Raising the Curtain. Operatic Modernism and the Soviet Nations

Oxana Gourinovitch

PUBLICATION
(Spector Books, 2024)

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Resynthesizers

Equitable Vitrines

PUBLICATION
(Urbanomic, 2024)

Grantee Publications

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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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Architecture Follows Fish

André Tavares

PUBLICATION
(MIT Press, 2024)

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

Beth Weinstein

PUBLICATION
(Routledge, 2024)

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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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Clara Istlerová, A Life Among Letters

Anežka Minaříková

PUBLICATION
(Inventory Press, 2025)

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The LOUDREADER

Loudreaders

PUBLICATION
(Loudreaders Trade School, 2025)

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Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time

Yale University Press

PUBLICATION (Yale University Press, 2024)

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Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation's Capital

Amber N. Wiley

PUBLICATION
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025)

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Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage

Susan Slyomovics

PUBLICATION
(Stanford University 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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Pollen – The UIC/SoArch Journal #1

University of Illinois at Chicago-School of Architecture

PUBLICATION
(UIC School of Architecture, 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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Sick Architecture

Guillermo S. Arsuaga, Nick Axel & Beatriz Colomina

PUBLICATION
(MIT Press, 2025)

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The Sixth Sphere

Brittany Utting

PUBLICATION
(Anyone Corporation, 2024)

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A Territory in Conflict: Eras of Development and Urban Architecture in Gaza

Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat

PUBLICATION
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025)

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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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Tony Smith Architecture Catalogue Raisonné

John Keenen

PUBLICATION
(MIT Press, 2025)

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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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Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History

Civil Architecture: Hamed Bukhamseen & Ali Ismail Karimi

PUBLICATION
(Kaph Books, 2025)

Current grantee exhibitions & Events

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Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture

Center for Architecture
May 08, 2025 - Sep 02, 2025

EXHIBITION
Center for Architecture, 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

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Al Río/To the River

Zoe Leonard
Oct 01, 2024 - Jun 22, 2025

EXHIBITION
Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas

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The Hedge of Halomancy

Hylozoic/Desires: Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser

EXHIBITION
Sharjah Biennial 16
FEB 06 - JUN 15, 2025


Cameron Rowland: Properties

Dia Art Foundation
Oct 04, 2024 - Oct 20, 2025

EXHIBITION
Dia Beacon, Beacon, 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

Image: Installation view, "PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity," US Pavilion, 19th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2025. Photo: Timothy Hursley; Spread, "P205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the Archive by Studio Muoto," Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen (Spector Books/CCA, 2024) Photograph by Matthieu Brouillard © CCA
; Installation view of Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: City of Rooms, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2024; photo: Zachary Riggleman