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As 2020 comes to a close, the Graham Foundation announces support to 36 international organizations leading projects that respond to today’s challenges, foster new connections across disciplines, and expand the field of architecture. The projects include exhibitions—ranging from new commissioned works to retrospectives of under-recognized figures—in Istanbul, London, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based. New editorial projects and forthcoming publications also include student-led journals and inventive programs to support critics in residences and global correspondents writing about the city, by publishers and institutions based in San Francisco, Paris, Mexico City, Montreal, Los Angeles, Prague, Salt Lake City, and Singapore. Together, these organizations support the work of eminent and emerging architects, artists, designers, critics, curators, scholars, and others, to explore new possibilities for the field and engage practitioners and publics worldwide.
Learn more about each project by clicking the links below to explore a dedicated project page on our website.
Exhibitions
Acute Angles (Chicago, IL)
Space p11: Interior Landscape Residencies and Exhibitions, 2021
Black Reconstruction Collective (New York, NY)
Black Reconstruction Collective Manifesting Textile
Chicago Architecture Biennial (Chicago, IL)
The Available City, 2021
Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock
Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (Istanbul, Turkey)
Empathy Revisited: designs for more than one, 5th Istanbul Design Biennial
The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America
Prospect New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)
Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow
Queens Museum (New York, NY)
After the Plaster Foundation, or, "Where can we live?"
The Renaissance Society (Chicago, IL)
Haig Aivazian: All of the Light
Serpentine Galleries (London, United Kingdom)
Serpentine Pavilion 2020–21 designed by Counterspace
Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, NY)
Building Cycles 2
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
YOU BE MY ALLY
University of Pennsylvania—Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA)
Jessica Vaughn: Our Primary Focus Is To Be Successful
Film, Video, and New Media Projects
The Architecture Lobby (Shaker Heights, OH)
JustDesign
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Chicago, IL)
The Sky Was Different
Public Programs
Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL)
2020 Design Matters Conference: Radical Transformations
Open Architecture Chicago & The Trust for Public Land (Chicago, IL)
The Urban Hack
Publications
Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal, Canada)
CCA Singles
Concordia University Press (Montreal, Canada)
Clara Porset: Living Design
Dalhousie Architectural Press (Halifax, Canada)
Design Matters series: “Colonization Through Design" and "Situated Practices in Architecture and Politics”
Fenester (Prague, Czech Republic)
Private Views: A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan
The Funambulist (Paris, France)
The Funambulist Correspondents
Juan de la Cosa / John of the Thing (Mexico City, Mexico)
Notebooks Series
Minerva Projects (Pine Plains, NY)
Project 4: Rey Akdogan
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (Singapore)
World of Variation, 1970/2020 — Revisiting the i Press Series on the Human Environment
Places Journal (San Francisco, CA)
Critics-in-Residence in Architecture and Landscape Architecture
The Richard H. Driehaus Museum (Chicago, IL)
Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism
The Royal College of Art (London, United Kingdom)
Offsetted
Society of Architectural Historians (Chicago, IL)
Twenty Historically Contested Sites: Race and Ethnicity Shaping the Built Environment
University of Utah—School of Architecture (Salt Lake City, UT)
Dialectic VIII: Subverting – Unmaking Architecture?
Student Publications
Harvard University—Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, MA)
New Geographies 12: Common
Paprika! (New Haven, CT)
Paprika! Volume VI
Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston, TX)
PLAT 10.0: Behold
University of California, Berkeley—Architecture Department (Berkeley, CA)
Room One Thousand: Issue 9
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles, CA)
POOL, Issue No. 06
University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (Chicago, IL)
Fresh Meat Journal Issue XII: Finding Agency in Uncertainty
Upcoming grant application deadlines
Grants to organizations: February 25, 2021
Grants to individuals: September 15, 2021
About the Graham Foundation
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. For updates on our programming and grantees, join our mailing list.
