SAT, NOV. 29, 2014: 20% Off All Books Storewide and Up to 50% Off Select Titles

Please join us on Saturday, November 29, from 11AM to 6PM, for a special holiday sale at the Graham Foundation Bookshop, which will be offering 20% off all books storewide and up to 50% off select titles. Come stop by Chicago’s only architecture bookshop and browse our wide selection of unique titles on architecture, art, and related fields, ranging from recent Graham-funded projects, to new, historically significant, and hard-to-find books and periodicals.

During your visit, don’t miss our current exhibition, “Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops, 1966-1971,” which explores the cross-discipinary workshops organized by American landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and avant-garde dance pioneer Anna Haprin in Northern California during the late 1960’s. Featured in The New York Times, Artforum's "Critics' Pick", and Landscape Architecture Magazine, “Experiments in Environments” is up through December 13, 2014.

 

HOLIDAY HOURS

The Graham Foundation galleries and bookshop will be open Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014 from 11AM-6PM, and will be closed from November 27-28. We will re-open with normal gallery and bookshop hours on Saturday, November 29, 2014.

 

THE STATE OF THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE

As a Presenting Partner of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Graham Foundation is pleased to announce The State of the Art of Architecture as the title of the inaugural Biennial, which will take place from October 2015 to January 2016. Curated by Co-Artistic Directors Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda, the Biennial’s program of exhibitions and events will provide a platform for groundbreaking architectural projects and spatial experiments.

Presenting the largest international survey of contemporary architecture in North America, the Chicago Architecture Biennial will be a nexus of ideas, and a global stage for debate and discourse. This inaugural event will explore the ambitions, challenges, and possibilities fueling architectural imagination and steering the future of the field.

The title The State of the Art of Architecture takes its name from a 1977 conference organized by architect Stanley Tigerman, which invited leading American designers to Chicago to present and discuss the current state of the field. The 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial will expand the spirit and scope of this event, inviting an international and intergenerational architectural network to Chicago to explore how visionary design can take on the most pressing issues of today.

The Graham Foundation is also pleased to announce the Biennial’s first commission, a photo essay on Chicago by world-renowned photographer Iwan Baan. Baan has transformed the practice of architectural photography, investigating architecture as a stage for everyday life. The first samples from this commission can be viewed on the Chicago Architecture Biennial website.

To learn more about the inaugural 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial, visit: www.chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org

 

Partners

The 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial is made possible through the support of Presenting Sponsor, BP, and Presenting Partners, the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events of the City of Chicago (DCASE) and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

Image: Iwan Baan / Chicago, 2014

View of “Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry,” 2011, Graham Foundation, Chicago. Photo James Prinz. 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to be part of Open House Chicago, a free public festival organized by the Chicago Architecture Foundation that offers behind-the-scenes access to 150 buildings across the city.

 

Since 1963, the Graham Foundation has been located in the Madlener House, a Prairie-style mansion located on the Gold Coast and built in 1901–02 by architect Richard E. Schmidt and designer Hugh M. G. Garden. The Madlener House was restored in 1963 to become the Graham’s headquarters and features two floors of exhibition space, original art glass windows, and a courtyard garden that showcases our significant collection of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architectural fragments. On October 18–19 (Saturday, 10AM-5PM; Sunday, 12PM-4PM), come tour the Madlener House, visit our current exhibition Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops, 1966-1971, and check out our architecture bookshop.

 

For more information on the exhibition, Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops, 1966-1971, click here.

Image: View of “Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry,” 2011, Graham Foundation, Chicago. Photo James Prinz.

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2014 Carter Manny Award for PhD dissertation writing and research. Since the establishment of this award in 1996, the Graham Foundation has awarded over $672,000 to support promising scholars whose doctoral projects shape contemporary discourse about architecture and significantly impact the field. Two Carter Manny Awards are given each year, one for dissertation writing and one for dissertation research.

The recipient of the 2014 Carter Manny Award for writing and a $20,000 award is Anna Goodman, a PhD candidate in architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Goodman’s dissertation, Citizen Architects: Ethics, Education, and the Construction of a Profession, 1933-2013, explores the genesis of community design-build education as a model for ethical and professional practice in 20th-century American architecture.

The recipient of the 2014 Carter Manny Award for research and a $15,000 award is Steven Lauritano, a PhD candidate in the history of art at Yale University. Lauritano’s dissertation, Embedded Remnants in Modern Architecture: Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the Historiography of Remains, recovers the critical vocabulary of architectural remains to furnish a new method for reading 19th-century historicist design.

Additionally, five students merited Citations of Special Recognition for their doctoral dissertations. These projects are acknowledged for their critical study of a diverse range of topics in architecture, including an exploration of the pervasive use of concrete in the American occupation of the Philippines as representative of a new form of colonial governance; and an investigation of how the evolution and endurance of the Hadrianic Baths as a Roman civic institution expands our definitions of architectural monumentality.

These outstanding projects were selected after a competitive review of 40 applications from doctoral students throughout the U.S. and Canada who were nominated by their departments for the award. This year’s review panelists were Eva Diaz (History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute); Simon Sadler (Department of Design, University of California, Davis); and Despina Stratigakos (School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York).

This annual award is given in honor of Carter H. Manny and his long and distinguished service to the foundation since its inception in 1956, first as a Trustee, then as the Director from 1971, and since his retirement in 1993, as Director Emeritus.

To read more about the 2014 Carter Manny Award and the winning projects, click here.

 

2014 CARTER MANNY AWARD WINNERS

WRITING AWARD

Citizen Architects: Ethics, Education, and the Construction of a Profession, 1933-201
ANNA GOODMAN
University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture

 

RESEARCH AWARD

Embedded Remnants in Modern Architecture: Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the Historiography of Remains
STEVEN LAURITANO
Yale University, Department of the History of Art

 

CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

WRITING

Concrete Colonialism: America, the Philippines, and the Development of a New Colonial Technique
DIANA MARTINEZ
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation, and Planning

To Changing Fortune: Monumentality and Transformation at the Hadrianic Baths of Aphrodisias
ALLYSON MCDAVID
New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

 

RESEARCH

Letter Building: Signage, Supergraphics, and the Rise of the Semiotic Structure in Modern American Architecture
CRAIG LEE
University of Delaware, College of Art & Sciences, Department of Art History

Rearing the Royals: Architecture and the Spatialization of Royal Childhood in France, 1499-1643
ELIZABETH NARKIN
Duke University, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

Building Faith: Ethiopian Art and Architecture during the Jesuit Interlude, 1557-1632
KRISTEN WINDMULLER-LUNA
Princeton University, The Department of Art & Archaeology

 

Image: Students from the Neighborhood Renewal Corps, University of Pennsylvania build play equipment from reclaimed materials, 1961, Philadelphia, PA. Karl Linn Collection, Courtesy of Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley. From the 2014 Carter Manny Award to Anna Goodman for “Citizen Architects: Ethics, Education, and the Construction of a Profession, 1933-2013.”

 

The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts announced today $480,000 in new grants to organizations to support 42 projects that engage original ideas in architecture. These grants enable organizations to produce exhibitions, publications, new media initiatives, conferences, and other programs that claim new ground in architectural discourse and create public forums for innovative and challenging ideas. Our new grantees join a distinguished community of individuals and organizations whom the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 58 years in its role as one of the few funders in the field of architecture.

The awarded projects were selected from a competitive pool of over 200 submissions representing 15 countries. The new grantees comprise a diverse range of national and international organizations in cities such as Istanbul, Leeds, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Milan, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, Houston, and Chicago. They include art and architecture museums, non-profit galleries, colleges and universities, independent publishers and journals, and other organizations.

For a complete list of the 2014 Grants to Organizations and the grantee project pages, click here.

 

Image: Kenneth Josephson, "Chicago," 1969. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. From the 2014 Graham Foundation Organizational Grant to the Art Institute of Chicago for "The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980."

 

The Graham Foundation Bookshop is pleased to participate in Chicago’s second annual Medium Cool Book Fair on Sunday, August 10. Free and open to the public, Medium Cool will feature a wide array of local, national, and international makers, publishers, and distributors of art books and related ephemera. We will be exhibiting a variety of unique titles on architecture, art and related fields, ranging from recent Graham-funded projects to new, historically significant, and hard-to-find books and periodicals. Stop by our table to browse our selection, learn more about our programs and upcoming events, or just say hello.

Medium Cool Book Fair
Sunday, August 10
10 AM–8 PM
Prairie Production
1314 W. Randolph St
Chicago IL
medium-cool.net

 

The Graham Foundation Bookshop, located in the Madlener House at 4 W. Burton Place, will remain open through the summer as we prepare for our fall exhibition, Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops, 1966 - 1971.

Summer bookshop hours are Tuesday to Friday, 11AM to 5PM. Regular gallery and bookshop hours (Wednesday to Saturday, 11AM to 6PM) will resume September 20, 2014.

For more information on our programs, exhibitions, and events, please visit our website, or follow us on Twitter or Facebook.

 

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2015 Grants to Individuals. Since 1956, the Graham Foundation has provided direct funding to individuals to produce publications, exhibitions, films, research, and other projects that foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

Applicants must submit an online Inquiry Form, the first stage of a two-stage application process, by September 15, 2014 at 5PM CDT.

For more information about Graham Foundation grants and eligibility, please see the grant guidelines.

In 2014, the Graham Foundation awarded over $520,000 to 68 projects by individuals. Browse these and other recently funded projects here.

 

Image: View of the squatted Torre Confinanzas, Caracas, Venezuela. Courtesy of Justin McGuirk. From the 2010 and 2012 Graham Foundation Individual Grants to Justin McGuirk for the research and publication of "Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture" (Verso, 2014).

 

“Architecture defines a city, and no city has been defined by its architecture—or has influenced global architectural design—like Chicago.”

—Mayor Rahm Emanuel

In the fall of 2015, the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial—an international forum on architecture and the designed environment—will open in Chicago. The Biennial will bring the world’s leading architectural talent together to explore the ideas, ambitions, and challenges facing the contemporary city in an age of accelerated change. Featuring the work of both established and emerging architects, the Biennial will address the major concerns of our time: the social, environmental, aesthetic, technological, and economic issues that shape the world we live in.

Presented in partnership with the City of Chicago and the Graham Foundation, the Chicago Architecture Biennial will create new platforms to examine the past, present, and future of architecture.

BP is the Presenting Sponsor of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial.

To download the press release, click here, or visit www.chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org.

 

The Graham Foundation congratulates all of our grantees participating in the 14th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Additionally, we are pleased to provide major support to the U.S. pavilion for the exhibition ‘OfficeUS.’

 

Graham Foundation Grantees at the 2014 Venice Biennale
Rem Koolhaas (1974*), director of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition

Phyllis Lambert (CCA, 1991), recipient of the 2014 Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award

Iñaki Ábalos (2014), Lucia Allais (2006), Tom Avermaete (2005), Andrew Bryant (2013), Jean-Louis Cohen (2012), Beatriz Colomina (1987), Elizabeth Diller (1985), Keller Easterling (1991), Peter Eisenman (1966), Stanislaus Fung (2000), Joseph Grima (2010), Samantha Hardingham (2012), Li Hu (2009), Sam Jacob (2014), Charlie Koolhaas (2011), Michael Kubo (2008), Vladimir Kulić (2014), Jimenez Lai (2011), Alex Lehnerer (2011), Armin Linke (2011), Michael Meredith (2008), Ana Miljacki (2004), Hans Ulrich Obrist (2009), Lluís Ortega (2013), Kayoko Ota (2009), Kyong Park (2002), Michelle Provoost (2014), David Reinfurt (2013), Hilary Sample (2003), Felicity D. Scott (2011), Lola Sheppard (2014), Martino Stierli (2011), Yehre Suh (2008), André Tavares (2014), Wouter Vantisphout (2014), Shuo Wang (2013), Mark Wasiuta (2008), Eyal Weizman (2010), Mason White (2014)
*year of first Graham Foundation grant

 

Image: TAC Offices, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967. Photo: Ezra Stoller, Esto. From the 2014 Graham Foundation grant for the U.S. Pavilion exhibition ‘OfficeUS’ at the 14^th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

 

For more information about the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, click here.

 

The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts announces its 2014 Grants to Individuals, which will award over $520,000 to 68 projects that demonstrate innovative and thought-provoking ideas in architecture. The new grantees comprise a diverse and multi-disciplinary group of U.S. and internationally-based architects, designers, artists, scholars, writers, curators, and others, who were selected from a competitive pool of more than 700 applicants representing 40 countries. The grants will provide direct support to individuals for the research, development, and presentation of publications, exhibitions, films, new media initiatives, and other programs.

For a complete list of the 2014 Grants to Individuals and the grantee project pages, click here.

 

 

Image: Papineau Gérin-Lajoie Architects, "Gordon Robertson School Building, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada," 1973. Photo: Guy Gérin-Lajoie. From the 2014 Graham Foundation Individual Grant to Lola Sheppard & Mason White for "Many Norths: Spatial Practices in a Shifting Territory."

On May 15, the Graham Foundation will announce its 2014 Grants to Individuals. This year, over $520,000 will be awarded to 68 projects that foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The grants will provide direct support to a range of projects, including publications, exhibitions, films, new media initiatives, and other programs that reach public audiences and promote new discourse about architecture.

To explore the projects supported through the foundation's 2013 Grants to Individuals, click here.

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for a part-time Program Assistant position. This paid fellowship position is an ideal opporutnity for students of architecture, art, art education, history, design, and related programs interested in gaining experience at a non-profit arts organization, foundation, and/or cultural institution. Selected applicants will learn through active participation in tasks related to the foundation’s grants and public programming.

START DATE: April 21, 2014

END DATE: September 2014 with potential to extend

WORK SCHEDULE: Flexible. 2 days per week 11:00am – 6:00pm, and regular evening events.

COMPENSATION: Paid Fellowship

 

To learn more about the position and application process, click here.