Madlener House
4 West Burton Place
Chicago, Illinois 60610
Telephone: 312.787.4071
info@grahamfoundation.org

Jun 19, 2013

Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

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Upcoming Exhibition

The first exhibition of the Graham-funded research by architect Mathias Heyden and artist Ines Schaber focuses on a visual re-presentation of the community design movement in the United States.

upcoming Event

The bookshop is open during normal gallery hours (Wed-Sat 11AM-5PM).

The bookshop now carries Graham grantee Martino Stierli’s recent publication 'Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror: The City in Theory, Photography, and Film.'

upcoming event

Please join us to celebrate the opening of Where If Not Us? — Participatory Design and Its Radical Approaches.

Grantee News

2013 Graham Grantee Elena Manferdini's indoor pavilion 'Tempera' is featured in MOCA's exhibition, 'A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California.'

Grantee News

In 2013, 60 exciting projects by individuals around the world have been selected to receive funding totaling over $500,000.

GRANTEE NEWS

This recently announced 2013 Individual Grant is already a best seller and has garnered press from OUT, New York Magazine and the New York Times. The new monograph features Horace Gifford (1932–92), the celebrated beach house architect of the 1960s and ’70s, who led a twenty-year modernist transformation of Fire Island.

'Spontaneous Interventions,' the official U.S. representation at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennial last August, will make its U.S. debut in Chicago at the Chicago Cultural Center between May 24 - September 2, 2013.

Where If Not Us? protagonists. From top, left to right: Ronald Shiffman, Henry Sanoff, Graham Adams, David Perkes, Michael Rios, Roberta Feldman, Catherine Baker / Peter Landon / Jeff Bone.; read more; Robert Damora, photograph of Gropius House, 1947 (Walter Gropius, architect), Lincoln, MA. Courtesy of Karla Britton and Pierluigi Serraino, 2013 individual grantees.