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Dec 01, 2023

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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CURRENT EXHIBITION

CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal

Floating Museum

NOV 1, 2023–JAN 27, 2024
  The Graham Foundation is pleased to be an official site for CAB 5:  This is a Rehearsal, part of the fifth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB). Curated by the interdisciplinary arts collective the Floating Museum, CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, takes an expansive view of design as an iterative rehearsal process to explore architecture, cities, and the different social, ecological, economic and political forces that shape them.
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2023 Grantees (Alphabetical by grantee)

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

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PUBLICATION

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Traces of Ecstasy

KJ Abudu

EXHIBITION

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Together we fled a realm

Gouled Ahmed & Asmaa Jama

RESEARCH

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Prairie School

Toby Altman

RESEARCH

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A Non-Coincidental Mirror

Carmen Amengual

RESEARCH

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Design Emergency

Paola Antonelli & Alice Rawsthorn

NEW MEDIA

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

Carla Aramouny & Sandra Frem

PUBLICATION

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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

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Spatializing Reproductive Justice

ArchiteXX

EXHIBITION

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Olalekan Jeyifous: Even in Arcadia...

Art Omi

EXHIBITION

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Women’s Prayer Space: The Politics of Sex Segregation

Tutin Aryanti

RESEARCH

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2024 Design Matters Conference

Association of Architecture Organizations

CONFERENCE

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The Menstrual Isolation Room is a Spa!

Minne Atairu

RESEARCH

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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

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La Casa Tappeto

Giovanni Bellotti, Alessandra Covini & Adelita Husni-Bey

EXHIBITION

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Muqarnas—Sacred Grounds

Radhi Ben Hadid, Meriem Chabani & John Edom

EXHIBITION

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

Anna Bokov

PUBLICATION

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Empty Pedestals: Narratives on History, Race and Public Design

Kofi Boone & M. Elen Deming

PUBLICATION

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Giving Voice to the Río de La Plata Basin

Bruno Borgna, Mauricio Corbalán & Pío Torroja

RESEARCH

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

Craig Buckley

PUBLICATION

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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

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

Chicago Architecture Biennial

EXHIBITION

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Our Changing Downtown: International Residency with ChartierDalix, Paris

Chicago Architecture Center

EXHIBITION

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Twilight Requiem

Stephanie Choi

RESEARCH

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Stull & Lee: Black Architecture Vision for an Infrastructural City

Gabriel Cira, James Heard & Julian Phillips

EXHIBITION

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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

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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

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

Dark Matter U

PUBLICATION

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TEXTURAL THRESHOLD HAIR SALON: Dreadlock

Felecia Davis

EXHIBITION

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Alma Allen & Su Wu: Site Repair

Del Vaz Projects

EXHIBITION

Cameron Rowland at Dia Beacon

Dia Art Foundation

EXHIBITION

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Provoking the Territory: Bernard Khoury

Dongola

PUBLICATION

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Etceteras: feminist festival of design and publishing

Isabel Duarte, Maya Ober & Nina Paim

PUBLIC PROGRAM

NEWS

Visit CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal

Nov 01, 2023

Gallery and Bookshop Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 12–5 p.m. The exhibition at the Graham Foundation, includes projects by Cecil McDonald, Jr., Dream The Combine, Larissa Fassler, and a collaborative project curated by interim studio.

2023 Carter Manny Awards

Sep 07, 2023

  The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the 2023 Carter Manny Awards for doctoral dissertations and research by emerging scholars. Through this annual program, the Graham supports work that contributes to new narratives in contemporary understanding of architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.
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2023 Grants to Organizations

Jul 20, 2023

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2023 Grants to Individuals

May 18, 2023

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Black—Still

Megan Echols & Dana McKinney

EXHIBITION

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

Alexander Eisenschmidt

PUBLICATION

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

Yasmina El Chami

RESEARCH

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

Makram El Kadi & Ziad Jamaleddine

PUBLICATION

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A Love Supreme

Elmhurst Art Museum

EXHIBITION

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Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground

Yun Fu

PUBLICATION

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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

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I Believe in the Things You Cannot See

Maria Gaspar

FILM

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

Geoffrey Bawa Trust

PUBLIC PROGRAM

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Elephant in the Room, and Other Fables

Design Earth: Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy

RESEARCH

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

Anna Goodman

PUBLICATION

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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

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The Black Home, Black in Design Conference 2023

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

CONFERENCE

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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

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EDIBLE; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism

Lydia Kallipoliti & Areti Markopoulou

PUBLICATION

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Tony Smith Architecture Catalogue Raisonné

John Keenen

PUBLICATION

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

Nusaibah Khan

RESEARCH

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Transecological (Re)Imaginations in the Tenderloin

Chandra M. Laborde

EXHIBITION

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Public by Design, 2023 Exhibit Columbus

Landmark Columbus Foundation

EXHIBITION

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An Ode to Basement Workshop 1971–86

Sharon Leung

RESEARCH

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The missing architect

LIGA-Space for Architecture

PUBLICATION

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Entangled Ecologies

Paula Koeler Lira & Tatiana Pinto

RESEARCH

Tl_uhurucatalogues

The Uhuru Catalogues

Thandi Loewenson

EXHIBITION

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The LOUDREADER

Loudreaders

PUBLICATION

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Analogous Jerusalem

Gili Merin

PUBLICATION

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I Would Prefer Not To

Ana Miljački

PODCAST

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Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad

Faiza Moatasim

PUBLICATION

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Geo-Fantasies: A Space Race on Planet Earth

Andrea Molina Cuadro

EXHIBITION

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

Léa Namer

PUBLICATION

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Los Angeles Review of Architecture

New York Review of Architecture

PUBLICATION

2023 Carter Manny Awards

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Drawing Management: Corporate Organization, International Practice, and the Making of Computer Aided Design

Aaron Tobey

Yale University School of Architecture 2023 Carter Manny Writing Award

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Environmental Conduits in China: Pipe Politics, Fluid Management, and the Rise of the Global Airscape

Jia Weng

Yale University, School of Architecture 2023 Carter Manny Research Award

2023 Carter Manny Award Citations of Special Recognition

AN TAIRAN
Princeton University, School of Architecture
Writing Citation

DEEPTHI BATHALA
University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Writing Citation

ANGELIKA JOSEPH
Princeton University, Humanities Council and School of Architecture
Research Citation

ADAM LONGENBACH
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Research Citation

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN
Cornell University, Department of Architecture
Writing Citation

QIRAN SHANG
University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design
Research Citation

CHELSEA SPENCER
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning
Writing Citation

SYLVIA WU
University of Chicago, Department of Art History
Writing Citation

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2023 Grantees (Alphabetical by grantee) cont.

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Civic Gaze

Camila Palomino & Sean Vegezzi

RESEARCH

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Paprika! Volume IX

Paprika!

PUBLICATION

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Rust on a Razor Blade: Mickey Muennig in Big Sur, 1970–2000

Marco Piscitelli

EXHIBITION

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Reclaimed Lands: The Ecological Legacies of Colonial Bombay’s Coasts

Deepa Ramaswamy

RESEARCH

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Weathered, Season 2

Anjulie Rao

PUBLICATION

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Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture

Judith Raum

PUBLICATION

Exhibition

Dala Nasser

The Renaissance Society

EXHIBITION

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PLAT 13

Rice University-School of Architecture

PUBLICATION

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A Pattern Language for Spatial Adjacencies

Tivon Rice

EXHIBITION

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Rethinking Architecture Education in Latin America

SALAA

PUBLIC PROGRAM

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Seabreeze Bop City

The School of Architecture

NEW MEDIA

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Architecture Off-Centre

Vaissnavi Shukl

PODCAST

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Inland Empire: Settler Colonialism, Modern Architecture, and the Rise of American Hegemony

Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió

PUBLICATION

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Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

EXHIBITION

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In the Horizontal Plane: taisha paggett performance works

Soberscove Press

PUBLICATION

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Everlasting Plastics, US Pavilion, 18th International Architecture Exhibition

SPACES

EXHIBITION

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Roman Leviathan: Architecture and Capitalism in Postwar Italy

Davide Spina

PUBLICATION

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House of D

Alex Strada

RESEARCH

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Index of Edges

Huda Tayob

EXHIBITION

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SPACE FOR FREE

Toronto Metropolitan University

PUBLICATION

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Los Angeles Water School

Oscar Tuazon

PUBLICATION

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Arkisnak

University of California, Berkeley-Architecture Department

PUBLICATION

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POOL, Issue No. 09

University of California, Los Angeles-Department of Architecture and Urban Design

PUBLICATION

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The UIC/SoArch Journal

University of Illinois at Chicago-School of Architecture

PUBLICATION

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SPACE, Vol. 1: Delirium

University of Southern California-School of Architecture

PUBLICATION

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The Black Home as Public Art

University of Texas at Austin-School of Architecture

EXHIBITION

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Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa and South Asia

Victoria and Albert Museum

PUBLICATION

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Dear Mazie,

Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation

EXHIBITION

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The World Around Summit 2024

The World Around

PUBLIC PROGRAM

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Queering Urbanism: Architecture, Embodiment, and Queer Citizenship

Stathis G. Yeros

PUBLICATION

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Between Land and Water—Architecture of Porosity

Feifei Zhou

RESEARCH

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

Claire Zimmerman

PUBLICATION

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