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2025
August 21, 2025—The Graham Foundation announces the award of 39 new Grants to Organizations totaling $573,300. Earlier this year, 42 new Grants to Individuals totaling $385,500 were announced. The winners of the 2025 Carter Manny Award will be announced later this year.
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Making Energy Visible
Tulay AtakExhibition -
Black Holes Ain't So Black
Thuto Durkac-Somo, Jonathan González & Mario GoodenExhibition -
Light Gauge
Departamento del Distrito: Nathan Friedman & Francisco QuiñonesExhibition -
Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts (Part 2)
Erin BeslerExhibition -
Casas de Cartón—Rural Memories of the Dry Corridor
Carlos H. BlancoExhibition -
The Society for Care and Maintenance
Jason CampbellExhibition -
Animismo Animado
Maria Fernanda Cartagena, Paula Izurieta, Eduardo Kohn, Fabiano Kueva, Gabriel Moyer-Perez & Manari UshiguaExhibition -
The Seeds of Regionalism in the South: An Investigation into the Work of Alfred Clauss and Jane West Clauss in Knoxville, Tennessee
Richard-Allen Foster, Benjamin Pollak & John L. SandersExhibition -
A83 Exhibition Program, 2025–26
a83Exhibition -
The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin
Architectural Association School of ArchitectureExhibition -
Bruce Goff: Material Worlds
Art Institute of ChicagoExhibition -
Culture Lab
Canadian Centre for ArchitectureExhibition -
SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change
Chicago Architecture BiennialExhibition -
Citygroup Exhibition and Debate Program, 2026
CitygroupExhibition -
FUNGI: Anarchist Designers
Nieuwe InstituutExhibition -
Isamu Noguchi: "I am not a designer"
High Museum of ArtExhibition -
Alison Ruttan: The Paradox of Inaction
Hyde Park Art CenterExhibition -
How Heavy is a City?, Seventh Edition, Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Lisbon Architecture TriennaleExhibition -
MAGAZIN Exhibition Program, 2025–26
MAGAZIN Space for Contemporary ArchitectureExhibition -
Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa
The Museum of Modern ArtExhibition -
A Capsule in Time, Serpentine Pavilion 2025 by Marina Tabassum
Serpentine GalleriesExhibition -
Homelands
Storefront for Art and ArchitectureExhibition -
Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee’s Architectural Legacy
Tuskegee University-Legacy MuseumExhibition -
PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity: US Pavilion, 19th International Architecture Exhibition
University of Arkansas-Fay Jones School of Architecture and DesignExhibition -
SoHo in Flux: Art, Real Estate and the Housing Crisis
Alice Arnold & Sharon ZukinFilm -
Mr. Adams
Malcolm St-PierreFilm -
The Design Summit for Friends of Friends
Mobile Makers ChicagoPUBLIC PROGRAM -
Black Roots: Grounded and Growing Toward Collective Futures, Black in Design Conference 2025
Harvard University-Graduate School of DesignPUBLIC PROGRAM -
Space Between, Season Two
KoozarchPodcast -
Design for Dignity 03: A Convening of Possibilities
Deem JournalPublic Program -
Lampo 2025 Concert Series at the Graham Foundation
LampoPublic Program -
Aria Dean: The Color Scheme
PerformaPublic Program -
Designing the American Century: The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915–1965
Thomas J. CampanellaPublication -
Infinite Because It Mirrors [Infinito Porque Espelha]
Olivia Abrahão & Carla JuaçabaPublication -
Traces of Ecstasy: Modelling Decolonial, Queer, and Anarchic African futures for the 21st Century
KJ AbuduPublication -
El Lissitzky: Writings on Architecture and the City
Richard AndersonPublication -
Appartamento Aperto: At Home with Marco Zanuso
Shantel BlakelyPublication -
We the Bacteria: Notes Towards Biotic Architecture
Beatriz Colomina & Mark WigleyPublication -
The City in the Shadow of the Shantytown: A Critical History of the Bidonville
Sheila CranePublication -
What Else Could It Mean? Drawings and Writings by James Wines/SITE
Phillip Denny, James Wines & Suzan WinesPublication -
Crossroads of the Americas: A History of Cuban Architecture
Victor DeupiPublication -
Building, Breaking, Rebuilding: The Illinois Institute of Technology Campus and Chicago's South Side
Kevin Harrington & Michelangelo SabatinoPublication -
Oríkì Design Series
Nifemi Marcus-BelloPublication -
City as Living Laboratory: Artists + Scientists + Communities Creating a Resilient and Equitable Public Realm
Mary MissPublication -
Architecture as an Instruction-Based Art
Farshid MoussaviPublication -
Nightrise
Mohamad NahlehPublication -
They asked me to design a house, I asked them to design a home
Ilaria Palmieri & Georgina PantazopoulouPublication -
The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives
Łukasz StanekPublication -
Tracking Newark, N.J., 1977–2024
Camilo Jose VergaraPublication -
New Architecture Writers Newsletter
New Architecture WritersPublication -
New City Critics, 2025–26
Urban Design Forum and the Architectural League of New YorkPublication -
Memo: Writing to Architecture
Architecture ExchangePublication -
Fem Pub 1960–1990: A Visual Compendium of Feminist Periodicals
Bikini BooksPublication -
Stable, Issue No. 1: Bad Ideas
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona-Department of ArchitecturePublication -
Beverly Buchanan: I Broke the House
ETH Zurich-gta exhibitionsPublication -
FORGOTTEN LANDS, Volume 07: Poetics of Architecture
FORGOTTEN LANDSPublication -
Beverly's Athens
Institute 193Publication -
Jupiter Magazine, Issue 008
Jupiter MagazinePublication -
In Between Projects: A Collective Revision of 15 Years of LIGA–Space for Architecture
LIGA–Space for ArchitecturePublication -
The Making of the National Public Housing Museum
National Public Housing MuseumPublication -
Chicago Review of Architecture
New York Review of ArchitecturePublication -
Rendered Visible: The Black Architectural Imagination
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and CulturePublication -
POOL, Issue No. 11
University of California, Los Angeles-Department of Architecture and Urban DesignPublication -
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University of Florida-Graduate School of ArchitecturePublication -
Fresh Meat Journal 15
University of Illinois at Chicago-College of Architecture, Design, and the ArtsPublication -
SPACE FOR FREE, Issues 13–24
SPACE FOR FREEPublication -
Africaland! Surface of Massive Change
Anna Nnenna AbengoweResearch -
Against the Denial of Wetland: Environmental Stewardship in the Hawizeh Marsh
Farah Alkhoury & Ameneh SolatiResearch -
Black Architectures: Race, Pedagogy, and Practice, 1957–68
Rebecca ChoiResearch -
Building Native Liberation: Advancing Architecture and Geography with King Kalākaua, 1874–1887
Sean ConnellyResearch -
Niger Consultants and Modern Architecture in Nigeria
Jareh DasResearch -
A Forest, a Tree, a Log, a Building
La Liga de la Madera: Karina Flores, Mecky Reuss, Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo & Jachen SchleichResearch -
Karaganda, Karaganda
Kandis FriesenResearch -
Crumbling Land
Noah GotlibResearch -
From Denver to Chicago: Racial Geographies and the Enduring Underside of Miesian Modernism
Leen KatribResearch -
The Architecture of Dreams: The Work of Rita Wolff
Hamed KhosraviResearch -
Dichotomy of Heritage and Industrialization in Mang Thít’s Sustainable Development
Hojung Kim & Ha NguyenResearch -
How to be Rural? American Planning in Africa and the Global Project of Modern Rurality, 1960s–1970s
Ayala LevinResearch -
Aesthetics of Disappearance: Concrete Pillboxes of Hokkaido
Noritaka MinamiResearch -
Building Worlds: A Feminist Biography of Postwar Architecture
Olga TouloumiResearch -
Dams as Temples: The Spatial Politics of Infrastructure Sacralization in India
Padmini UnniResearch
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