The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 33 projects led by organizations around the world—including exhibitions, publications, and other public presentations—that foster the development and exchange of ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society, furthering the mission of the Foundation. Collectively, these projects expand understanding, methods, and platforms of contemporary architecture discourse and feature work by architects, archivists, artists, curators, designers, educators, and other professionals working with organizations around the world in cities such as Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Nashville, Athens, New York, and Chicago where the Graham Foundation is based.
The new grantees join a global network of organizations and individuals that the Graham Foundation has supported since its founding in 1956. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than $44 million in direct support to over 5,100 projects by organizations and individuals.
Learn more about each project by visiting the links below to explore a dedicated project page on the Foundation’s website.
Exhibitions
a83 (New York)
a83 Exhibition Program, 2024–25
The Architectural League of New York (New York)
Living Legend: Cross Bronx
Carnegie Museum of Art—Heinz Architectural Center (Pittsburgh, PA)
Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: City of Rooms
Center for Architecture (New York)
Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture
Citygroup (New York)
Citygroup Exhibition and Debate Program, 2025
Craft Contemporary (Los Angeles)
Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design
Hunter College Art Galleries (New York)
Andrea Blum: BIOTA
LIGA—Space for Architecture (Mexico City)
LIGA Exhibition Program, 2025
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
Prospect New Orleans (New Orleans)
Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home
Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York)
Swamplands
Swiss Institute (New York)
Energies
Film, video, and new media projects
Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal)
Groundwork: A Film Series on Alternative Modes of Engagement in Architecture
Critical Design Lab (Vanderbilt University) and The DisOrdinary Architecture Project (Nashville, TN)
Disability Meets Architecture: A Translational Repository for Critical Accessible Practice
Innovando la Tradición (Oaxaca, Mexico)
LEOPOLDO. Living Treasures Series
Public programs
City College of New York—J. Max Bond Center for Urban Futures (New York)
ARCH at Sixty: Bridging Past Visions with Present Realities
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art and California Indian Museum and Cultural Center (Napa, CA)
Towards an Archaeology of the Future
The Funambulist (Paris)
The Funambulist Conversations
Lampo (Chicago)
Lampo Concert Series at the Graham Foundation
The World Around (New York)
The World Around Summit 2025
Publications
Borderless Studio and MAS Context (Chicago and San Antonio, TX)
Beyond Closure: Reimagining Possibilities for Chicago’s Closed Schools
Boulouki Itinerant Workshop (Athens)
Under the Landscape: Disciplinary Convergences and Emerging Alliances of Worlding
Brazilian Institute of Architects—Sao Paulo Department (Brasília, Brazil)
Terra
Chimurenga (Cape Town, South Africa)
African Mobilities – A Library of Circulations
Deem Journal (Los Angeles and New York)
Deem Journal, Issue 6: Inventing the Institution
INSITE (San Diego, CA)
INSITE Journal_07: A Timeless Way to Build
The Jewish Museum (New York)
Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines
Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston)
PLAT 14
Syracuse University—School of Architecture (Syracuse, NY)
Ethical Narratives: Essays by Richard Ingersoll (1949–2021)
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles)
POOL, Issue No. 10
University of Illinois at Chicago—School of Architecture (Chicago)
Pollen – The UIC/SoArch Journal #2
University of the Witwatersrand—School of Arts (Johannesburg, South Africa)
ellipses [spatial praxis]: Critical Perspectives in Publishing Creative Research
Urban Design Forum and The Architectural League of New York (New York)
New City Critics
Upcoming grant application deadlines
2025 grants to individuals: inquiry form deadline September 15, 2024
2025 Carter Manny Award: application available September 15, 2024; due November 15, 2024
2025 grants to organizations: application available January 13, 2025; due February 25, 2025
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.
