Graham Foundation

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Deadtime, an anatomy study

Cally Spooner

Feb 17, 2024 - Jun 22, 2024

Deadtime stages an anatomy study of how performance quantifies the social body.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Lampo Performance Series
Madison Greenstone

May 04, 2024

Madison Greenstone performs Silent Paradox of Expression, a new concert-length extension of their exstatic resonances practice of playing the clarinet.
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SATURDAY, MAY 11, 12–5 pm CT
Join us to watch the live-stream of the The World Around Summit 2024—a convening of global architecture’s “now, near, and next”—in the Graham Foundation’s ballroom.
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2023 Grantees (Alphabetical by grantee)

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

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PUBLICATION

Traces of Ecstasy

KJ Abudu

EXHIBITION

Together we fled a realm

Gouled Ahmed & Asmaa Jama

RESEARCH

Prairie School

Toby Altman

RESEARCH

A Non-Coincidental Mirror

Carmen Amengual

RESEARCH

Design Emergency

Paola Antonelli & Alice Rawsthorn

NEW MEDIA

Shifting Grounds [the ground between form and practice in Beirut]

Carla Aramouny & Sandra Frem

PUBLICATION

Entangled Archive: A Digital Framework for Collecting and Sharing the Dispersed Legacy of the AA Department of Tropical Architecture

Architectural Association School of Architecture

NEW MEDIA

Spatializing Reproductive Justice

ArchiteXX

EXHIBITION

Olalekan Jeyifous: Even in Arcadia...

Art Omi

EXHIBITION

Women’s Prayer Space: The Politics of Sex Segregation

Tutin Aryanti

RESEARCH

2024 Design Matters Conference

Association of Architecture Organizations

CONFERENCE

The Menstrual Isolation Room is a Spa!

Minne Atairu

RESEARCH

Witness: Design of the Tougaloo Center for Racial Justice and Equity

Becky Beamer & Jori Erdman

FILM

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Attention Audio Journal, Issues 8, 9, and 10

Joseph Bedford

NEW MEDIA

La Casa Tappeto

Giovanni Bellotti, Alessandra Covini & Adelita Husni-Bey

EXHIBITION

Muqarnas—Sacred Grounds

Radhi Ben Hadid, Meriem Chabani & John Edom

EXHIBITION

From Method to Style: Elements of Spatial Composition and Architectural Pedagogy after Vkhutemas

Anna Bokov

PUBLICATION

Empty Pedestals: Narratives on History, Race and Public Design

Kofi Boone & M. Elen Deming

PUBLICATION

Giving Voice to the Río de La Plata Basin

Bruno Borgna, Mauricio Corbalán & Pío Torroja

RESEARCH

The Street and the Screen: Architectures of Spectatorship in the Age of Cinema

Craig Buckley

PUBLICATION

AP205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the Archive by Studio Muoto, Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Canadian Centre for Architecture

PUBLICATION

CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, Chicago Architecture Biennial 2023

Chicago Architecture Biennial

EXHIBITION

Our Changing Downtown: International Residency with ChartierDalix, Paris

Chicago Architecture Center

EXHIBITION

Twilight Requiem

Stephanie Choi

RESEARCH

Stull & Lee: Black Architecture Vision for an Infrastructural City

Gabriel Cira, James Heard & Julian Phillips

EXHIBITION

Citygroup Exhibition Program, 2023

Citygroup

EXHIBITION

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How to Build with Time? Learning from Bimanagar, Ahmedabad, India

Íñigo Cornago Bonal, Vishwanath Kashikar & Christoph Lueder

PUBLICATION

Kamirithu Theatre: An Architecture for Decolonization

Kenny Cupers, Makau Kitata & Chao Tayiana Maina

NEW MEDIA

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Black City Astrolabe

J. Yolande Daniels

EXHIBITION

Challenging Patterns of Supremacy: Provocations from Collective Pedagogy, Practice, and Organizing

Dark Matter U

PUBLICATION

TEXTURAL THRESHOLD HAIR SALON: Dreadlock

Felecia Davis

EXHIBITION

Alma Allen & Su Wu: Site Repair

Del Vaz Projects

EXHIBITION

Cameron Rowland at Dia Beacon

Dia Art Foundation

EXHIBITION

Provoking the Territory: Bernard Khoury

Dongola

PUBLICATION

Etceteras: feminist festival of design and publishing

Isabel Duarte, Maya Ober & Nina Paim

PUBLIC PROGRAM

NEWS

Announcing 2024 Graham Foundation Fellow: Cally Spooner

Jan 28, 2024

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce artist Cally Spooner as a 2024 Graham Foundation Fellow. As a part of the fellowship, the Spooner will present a large-scale exhibition at the Foundation’s Madlener House galleries featuring a repertoire of works from "Deadtime," a multi-year research project started in 2018.
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2023 Grants to Organizations

Jul 20, 2023

2023 Grants to Individuals

May 18, 2023

2023 Carter Manny Awards

Sep 07, 2023

2023 GRANTEES CONT.

Black—Still

Megan Echols & Dana McKinney

EXHIBITION

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

Alexander Eisenschmidt

PUBLICATION

Building “International Goodwill”: American Campuses in the “Near East,” 1919–1964

Yasmina El Chami

RESEARCH

From the Mountain to the Sea: Architectural Excursions in the Lebanese Landscape and Beyond

Makram El Kadi & Ziad Jamaleddine

PUBLICATION

A Love Supreme

Elmhurst Art Museum

EXHIBITION

Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground

Yun Fu

PUBLICATION

In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City

Arnika Fuhrmann

PUBLICATION

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Latinx Coalition Chats

Liz Gálvez & José Ibarra

PUBLIC PROGRAM

I Believe in the Things You Cannot See

Maria Gaspar

FILM

On Gardens: Contemplating the Relative in Space, Time, and Life

Geoffrey Bawa Trust

PUBLIC PROGRAM

Elephant in the Room, and Other Fables

Design Earth: Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy

RESEARCH

Citizen Architects: How Hands-on Building in Architectural Education Shaped a Nation

Anna Goodman

PUBLICATION

Drylongso: Imaging the Black Landscape

Curry J. Hackett

RESEARCH

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Cracks in the Edifice: Niemeyer’s futuristic fairground in Tripoli

Suzy Halajian & Noah Simblist

RESEARCH

The Black Home, Black in Design Conference 2023

Harvard University-Graduate School of Design-African American Student Union

CONFERENCE

Building Solidarity Architectures: Social Movements, Welfare Crisis and State Abandonment

Elisavet Hasa

PUBLICATION

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Migrating Futures

N H D M: Nahyun Hwang & David Moon

EXHIBITION

Revisiting the i press Series on the Human Environment by Mary Otis Stevens

i press

PUBLICATION

EDIBLE; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism

Lydia Kallipoliti & Areti Markopoulou

PUBLICATION

Tony Smith Architecture Catalogue Raisonné

John Keenen

PUBLICATION

Productive Landscapes in Srinagar—A Case of Floating Gardens and Hanji Settlements of Dal Lake

Nusaibah Khan

RESEARCH

Transecological (Re)Imaginations in the Tenderloin

Chandra M. Laborde

EXHIBITION

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Public by Design, 2023 Exhibit Columbus

Landmark Columbus Foundation

EXHIBITION

An Ode to Basement Workshop 1971–86

Sharon Leung

RESEARCH

The missing architect

LIGA-Space for Architecture

PUBLICATION

Entangled Ecologies

Paula Koeler Lira & Tatiana Pinto

RESEARCH

The Uhuru Catalogues

Thandi Loewenson

EXHIBITION

The LOUDREADER

Loudreaders

PUBLICATION

Analogous Jerusalem

Gili Merin

PUBLICATION

I Would Prefer Not To

Ana Miljački

PODCAST

Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad

Faiza Moatasim

PUBLICATION

Geo-Fantasies: A Space Race on Planet Earth

Andrea Molina Cuadro

EXHIBITION

Chacarita Moderna: The Brutalist Necropolis of Buenos Aires by the Architect Itala Fulvia Villa

Léa Namer

PUBLICATION

Los Angeles Review of Architecture

New York Review of Architecture

PUBLICATION

Cally Spooner, Instructions for Dancing Still Life on a Single Breath II (detail), 2021

FEATURED GRANTEE NEWS

The World Around Summit 2024

The World Around

May 11, 2024

PUBLIC PROGRAM
A conference featuring luminaries from architecture, design, and beyond online and in-person at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

SATURDAY, MAY 11, 12–5 pm CT
CLICK HERE to register to attend the in-person live-stream in Chicago at the Graham Foundation
CLICK HERE to buy tickets to attend in-person in New York at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
CLICK HERE to register to live-stream the event

Latinx Coalition Chats

Liz Gálvez & José Ibarra

May 30, 2024 - May 31, 2024

PUBLIC PROGRAM
Exploring the theme, “What is Latinx identity?” this event reconciles the individual and shared experiences of Latinx designers. Hosted at the Architectural League of New York, the symposium organizes a series of conversations that interrogate what this identity means to architecture, creating a platform that foments exchanges across multiple communities.