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The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the award of 39 new grants to organizations. Selected from more than 200 submissions, the funded projects—including exhibitions, installations, publications, podcasts, student-led journals, international architecture events, and other public programs—are led by organizations ranging from major cultural institutions and independent nonprofit spaces to academic institutions, publishers, and community-based initiatives, among others. Collectively, these projects advance new interdisciplinary ideas on architecture and design and engage publics around the world. The new grants highlight work by established and emerging architects, artists, curators, designers, scholars, writers, and others working with organizations worldwide in cities such as Vienna, Austria; Montreal and Toronto, Canada; Milan, Italy; Mexico City, Mexico; Lisbon and Porto, Portugal; Zurich, Switzerland; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; London, United Kingdom; Atlanta, GA; Cambridge, MA; Fayetteville, AR; Lexington, KY; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Tuskegee, AL; Washington, DC; and Chicago, IL, where the Graham Foundation is based.
The new grantees join an international network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported since its founding in 1956. Over the past 69 years, the Foundation has awarded more than 45 million dollars in direct support to over 5,200 projects. Learn more about each of the new grants through the links below.
Exhibitions
A83 (New York)
A83 Exhibition Program, 2025–26
Architectural Association School of Architecture (London)
The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin
Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago)
Bruce Goff: Material Worlds
Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal, Canada)
Culture Lab
Chicago Architecture Biennial (Chicago)
SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change
Citygroup (New York)
Citygroup Exhibition and Debate Program, 2026
High Museum of Art (Atlanta, Georgia)
Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer”
Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago)
Alison Ruttan: The Paradox of Inaction
Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Lisbon, Portugal)
How Heavy is a City?, Seventh Edition, Lisbon Architecture Triennale
MAGAZIN Space for Contemporary Architecture (Vienna, Austria)
MAGAZIN Exhibition Program, 2025–26
The Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa
Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
FUNGI: Anarchist Designers
Serpentine Galleries (London)
A Capsule in Time, Serpentine Pavilion 2025 by Marina Tabassum
Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York)
Homelands
Tuskegee University—Legacy Museum (Tuskegee, Alabama)
Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee’s Architectural Legacy
University of Arkansas—Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity: US Pavilion, 19th International Architecture Exhibition
Film, Video, and New Media
KoozArch (Milan, Italy)
Space Between, Season Two
Public Programs
Deem Journal (Los Angeles and New York)
Design for Dignity 03: A Convening of Possibilities
Harvard University—Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Black Roots: Grounded and Growing Toward Collective Futures, Black in Design Conference 2025
Lampo (Chicago)
Lampo 2025 Concert Series at the Graham Foundation
Mobile Makers Chicago (Chicago)
The Design Summit for Friends of Friends
Performa (New York)
Aria Dean: The Color Scheme
Publications
Architecture Exchange (Christiansburg, Virginia)
Memo: Writing to Architecture
Bikini Books (Porto, Portugal)
Fem Pub 1960–1990: A Visual Compendium of Feminist Periodicals
ETH Zurich—gta exhibitions (Zurich, Switzerland)
Beverly Buchanan: I Broke the House
FORGOTTEN LANDS (New York and US Virgin Islands)
FORGOTTEN LANDS, Volume 07: Poetics of Architecture
Institute 193 (Lexington, Kentucky)
Beverly’s Athens
Jupiter Magazine (Chicago)
Jupiter Magazine, Issue 008
LIGA–Space for Architecture (Mexico City)
In Between Projects: A Collective Revision of 15 Years of LIGA–Space for Architecture
National Public Housing Museum (Chicago)
The Making of the National Public Housing Museum
New Architecture Writers (London)
New Architecture Writers Newsletter
New York Review of Architecture (New York)
Chicago Review of Architecture
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington, DC)
Rendered Visible: The Black Architectural Imagination
SPACE FOR FREE (Toronto, Canada)
SPACE FOR FREE, Issues 13–24
Urban Design Forum and The Architectural League of New York (New York)
New City Critics, 2025–26
Student-led Publications
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona—Department of Architecture (Pomona, California)
Stable, issue no. 1: “Bad Ideas”
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles)
POOL, issue no. 11
University of Florida—Graduate School of Architecture (Gainesville, Florida)
VORKURS_Interstice
University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (Chicago)
Fresh Meat Journal 15
Upcoming grant application deadlines
2026 grants to individuals: application available July 15, due September 15, 2025.
2026 Carter Manny award: application available September 15, due November 15, 2025.
2026 grants to organizations: application available January 15, 2026, due February 25, 2026
For more information about the Graham Foundation’s grants, and to learn if your project is eligible for funding, visit grahamfoundation.org.
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.
