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Nov 14, 2024

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 AT THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION

Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines

Curated by Mark Wasiuta
Oct 23, 2024 - Mar 15, 2025

The Graham Foundation presents  Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines, a concise yet rich examination of Frederick Kiesler’s (1890–1965) experimental design practice through the activities of his Laboratory for Design Correlation at Columbia University from the late 1930s to the early 1940s.

UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION

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Modney and Ingrid Laubrock

Lampo Performance Series
Nov 16, 2024

PERFORMANCE—7 p.m.

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

Alexander Eisenschmidt with Robert Bruegmann, Geoffrey Goldberg, Jonathan Miller, Kathryn E. O’Rourke
Nov 21, 2024

GRANTEE BOOKLAUNCH—5:30 p.m.

Ka Baird

Lampo Performance Series
Dec 07, 2024

PERFORMANCE—7 p.m.

NEW Grantee Publications

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Seeing <—> Making: Room for Thought

Susan Buck-Morss, Kevin McCaughey & Adam Michaels

PUBLICATION
(Inventory Press, 2024)

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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
(Spector Books/CCA, 2024)

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The Aquarium is a Listening Glass

Louise Emily Carver & Angela Rui

PUBLICATION
(Humboldt Books, 2024)

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Le Corbusier: Album Punjab 1951

Maristella Casciato

PUBLICATION
(Lars Müller Publishers, 2024)

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Also Known As

Michelle JaJa Chang

PUBLICATION
(The MIT Press, 2024)

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Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design

Craft Contemporary

PUBLICATION
(Craft Contemporary, 2024)

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Gerald Summers & Marjorie Butcher: Makers of Simple Furniture, 1931–1940

Martha Deese

PUBLICATION
(Hatje Cantz, 2024)

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Resynthesizers

Equitable Vitrines

PUBLICATION
(Urbanomic, 2024)

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Building Institution: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York 1976–1985

Kim Förster

PUBLICATION
(transcript publishing, 2024)

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Raising the Curtain. Operatic Modernism and the Soviet Nations

Oxana Gourinovitch

PUBLICATION
(Spector Books, 2024)

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A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France

Vanessa Grossman

PUBLICATION
(Yale University Press, 2024)

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Queering Nawabi Lucknow: Architecture and the Colonial Archive

Sonal Mithal & Arul Paul

PUBLICATION
(Routledge, 2024)

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INSITE Journal_07: A Timeless Way to Build

INSITE

PUBLICATION
(INSITE Journal, 2024)

NEW Grantee Publications

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

Léa Namer

PUBLICATION
(Building Books, 2024)

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Los Angeles Review of Architecture

New York Review of Architecture

PUBLICATION
(New York Review of Architecture, 2024)

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New York Review of Architecture #39

New York Review of Architecture

PUBLICATION
(New York Review of Architecture, 2024)

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The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation

Elizabeth J. Petcu

PUBLICATION
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)

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The Sixth Sphere

Brittany Utting

PUBLICATION
(Anyone Corporation, 2024)

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Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture

Judith Raum

PUBLICATION
(Hatje Cantz, 2024)

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This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb

Adair Rounthwaite

PUBLICATION
(University of Minnesota Press, 2024)

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Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930–1960

Robin Schuldenfrei

PUBLICATION
(Princeton University Press, 2024)

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Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage

Susan Slyomovics

PUBLICATION
(Stanford University Press, 2024)

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Architecture Follows Fish

André Tavares

PUBLICATION
(MIT Press, 2024)

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CROP 10: YIELD

Texas Tech University-College of Architecture

PUBLICATION
(Texas Tech College of Architecture, 2024)

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SPACE FOR FREE

Toronto Metropolitan University

PUBLICATION
(Toronto Metropolitan University, 2024)

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University of California, Berkeley-Architecture Department

PUBLICATION
(University of California, Berkeley, 2024)

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POOL, Issue No. 09: Loop

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

PUBLICATION
(University of California, Los Angeles, 2024)

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

Victoria and Albert Museum

PUBLICATION
(V&A Publishing, 2024)

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Pollen – The UIC/SoArch Journal #1

University of Illinois at Chicago-School of Architecture

PUBLICATION
(UIC School of Architecture, 2024)

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Architecture + Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space, and Time

Beth Weinstein

PUBLICATION
(Routledge, 2024)

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Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time

Yale University Press

PUBLICATION (Yale University Press, 2024)

Current grantee exhibitions & Events

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ARCH at Sixty: Bridging Past Visions with Present Realities

City College of New York-J. Max Bond Center for Urban Futures
Nov 15, 2024 - Nov 16, 2024

PUBLIC PROGRAM
Aaron Davis Hall, City College of New York, New York

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The Black Home as Public Art

University of Texas at Austin-School of Architecture
Aug 30, 2024 - Nov 15, 2024

EXHIBITION
Mebane Gallery, School of Architecture, Austin

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Ripple Ripple Rippling

Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Mengfan Wang & Chen Zhan
Oct 11, 2024 - Dec 07, 2024

EXHIBITION
Architectural Association School of Architecture, London

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Swamplands: The motion of an alluvial record by Gala Porras-Kim

Storefront for Art and Architecture
Sep 19, 2024 - Dec 07, 2024

EXHIBITION
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York

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Tourism, Tropicalization, and the Architectural Image: An Analysis of Jamaica

Dahlia Nduom
Sep 10, 2024 - Dec 31, 2024

EXHIBITION
The Octagon, Washington

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Spatializing Reproductive Justice

ArchiteXX
Oct 25, 2024 - Jan 01, 2025

EXHIBITION
Jim Shields Gallery of Architecture & Urbanism, Milwaukee

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Energies

Swiss Institute
Sep 11, 2024 - Jan 05, 2025

EXHIBITION
Swiss Institute, New York

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Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design

Craft Contemporary
Sep 28, 2024 - Jan 05, 2025

EXHIBITION
Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles

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Columnar Disorder

Germane Barnes
Sep 21, 2024 - Jan 27, 2025

EXHIBITION
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

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Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home

Prospect New Orleans
Nov 02, 2024 - Feb 02, 2025

EXHIBITION
Prospect, New Orleans

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The Sixth Sphere

Brittany Utting
Oct 28, 2024 - Feb 14, 2025

EXHIBITION
William T. Cannady Hall, School of Architecture, Rice University, Houston

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Dream The Combine: Tom Carruthers & Jennifer Newsom
Nov 17, 2024 - Feb 17, 2025

EXHIBITION
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Dear Mazie,

Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation
Sep 06, 2024 - Mar 09, 2025

EXHIBITION
Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU, Richmond

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Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sep 30, 2024 - Mar 16, 2025

EXHIBITION
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: City of Rooms

Carnegie Museum of Art-Heinz Architectural Center
Sep 21, 2024 - Jun 15, 2025

EXHIBITION
Heinz Architectural Center, Pittsburgh

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Making Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Nov 02, 2024 - Aug 10, 2025

EXHIBITION
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York


GRANTEE PODCASTS AND FILM SERIES

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Here There Be Dragons, Season Three: Stockholm

Jess Myers

PODCAST

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I Would Prefer Not To

Ana Miljački

PODCAST

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Architecture Off-Centre

Vaissnavi Shukl

PODCAST

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Planes, Trains, and Canes

Mona Minkara

YOUTUBE SERIES

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Design Emergency

Paola Antonelli & Alice Rawsthorn

YOUTUBE SERIES

Frederick Kiesler, “Mobile Home Library as represented in the Correalism Manifesto,” 1947. Copyright Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna; ; Germane Barnes, installation view of “Columnar Disorder," Art Institute of Chicago, 2024. Courtesy the Art Institute of Chicago