The Graham Foundation galleries and bookshop will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 26-27, 2015, and will re-open on Saturday, November 28 with normal hours (Wed-Sat, 11am-6pm).

Our current exhibition, Barbara Kasten: Stages, is on view through January 9, 2016.

Photo: Jarrod Turner, Art Direction: Ria Roberts, Styling: Bettina Yung.  

The Graham Foundation Bookshop is pleased to participate in the third annual Medium Cool, a book fair and holiday gift shop taking place on November 21 and 22 at Prairie Production in Chicago. Free and open to the public, Medium Cool will feature a wide array of printed matter and designed objects from local and international publishers, distributors, artists, and designers.

The Graham Foundation will be exhibiting a variety of unique books, periodicals, and ephemera, including our original publication, Treatise, a collection of fourteen manifestos by emerging design offices from around the world, and Barbara Kasten: The Diazotypes, a new, limited-edition signed artist book co-published with D.A.P.

Stop by our table to browse our selection, learn more about the Graham Foundation's programs and upcoming events, or just say hello.

Medium Cool
Saturday, November 21, 12-6pm
Sunday, November 22, 11am-5pm

Prairie Production
1314 W. Randolph St
Chicago IL
medium-cool.com


The Graham Foundation Bookshop offers a variety of titles on architecture, art and related fields, ranging from recent Graham-funded projects to new, historically significant, and hard-to-find books and periodicals. Open Wednesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm, the bookshop is located in the Madlener House at 4 W. Burton Place.

 

We’ll be open this weekend, October 17-18, 2015, for Open House Chicago (OHC), the city’s annual architecture festival organized by the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

Since 1963 the Graham Foundation has been located in the Madlener House, a turn-of-the-century, Prairie-style mansion designed by architect Richard E. Schmidt and designer Hugh M. G. Garden. Restored in 1963 to become the Graham’s headquarters, the Madlener House features three 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.

This Saturday and Sunday, come tour the Madlener House and visit our current exhibition Barbara Kasten: Stages, which includes a new, site-specific video installation by Barbara Kasten produced specifically in response to the architecture of the Madlener House.

Saturday, October 17, 11am-5pm
Sunday, October 18, 12pm-4pm

Admission to all Open House Chicago sites is free. For more information, visit: http://openhousechicago.org/.

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Carter Manny Award. Since the establishment of this award in 1996, the Graham Foundation has awarded over $700,000 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 research and one for dissertation writing.

The winner of the 2015 Carter Manny Award for research and a $15,000 award is Jesse Lockard, a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago, for her dissertation A City Is Not A Picture: Yona Friedman, 1945–2015. Lockard’s dissertation examines the French architect’s pioneering theories of participatory design and architectural imagery, analyzing how tensions between Friedman’s theoretical and pictorial practices inspired his invention of pictographic languages and drove his experimentation with postwar technologies and new media in the 1960s and '70s.

The winner of the 2015 Carter Manny Award for writing and a $20,000 award is Vanessa Grossman, a PhD candidate at Princeton University’s School of Architecture. Grossman’s dissertation, A Concrete Alliance: Modernism, Communism, and the Design of Urban France, 1958–1981, unveils the powerful coalition that formed in the postwar era between architects and the French Communist Party, which served as a critical agent in the massive reshaping of French cities.

Additionally, five students have been awarded Citations of Special Recognition for their dissertation projects, which include: an examination of the design pedagogy at VKhUTEMAS (Higher Art and Technical Studios) in Moscow in the 1920s and '30s; an investigation of architects’ use of terra cotta to create fireproof buildings in the late 19th-century U.S.; research on the craftsmen and building culture that produced Richmond, Virginia’s colonial and antebellum urban landscape; a study of mechanical drawing and the relationship between body and machine at the dawn of America's Industrial Revolution; and an interpretation of architectural “miniatures” in medieval China.

The winners and citations were selected after a competitive panel review of 41 applications from doctoral students throughout the U.S. and Canada who were nominated by their departments for the award.

The Graham Foundation offers this annual award 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 2015 Carter Manny Award winners, click here.


2015 CARTER MANNY AWARD WINNERS

RESEARCH AWARD

A City Is Not A Picture: Yona Friedman, 1945–2015
JESSE LOCKARD
University of Chicago, Department of Art History


WRITING AWARD

A Concrete Alliance: Modernism, Communism, and the Design of Urban France, 1958–1981
VANESSA GROSSMAN
Princeton University, School of Architecture


CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

RESEARCH

Teaching Architecture to the Masses: VKhUTEMAS, 1920–1930
ANNA BOKOV
Yale University, School of Architecture

"Cities Unburnable!" Terra Cotta and the Architecture of Fire Safety in America, 1871–1916
JOHNATHAN PUFF
University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

WRITING

The City at the Falls: Building Culture in Richmond, Virginia, 1730–1860
ELIZABETH COOK
College of William and Mary, Department of History

Drawing Machines: The Mechanics of Art in the Early Republic
ELIZABETH EAGER
Harvard University, Department of the History of Art and Architecture

A Grain of Sand: Yingzao Fashi and the Miniaturization of Chinese Architecture
DI LUO
University of Southern California, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Image: Yona Friedman, collage on a postcard visualizing a Spatial City over Paris, 1960, Paris. Collection of Centre Georges Pompidou. Courtesy of Adagp.

Iwan Baan, Chicago, 2014. 

Since our founding in 1956, the Graham Foundation has been committed to advancing the most innovative work in the field of architecture. As a Presenting Partner of the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial, we extend our support of the field with the introduction of this new international platform for groundbreaking architectural projects and spatial experiments that explore what the built environment should be in the 21st century.

The inaugural biennial takes its title, The State of the Art of Architecture, from a provocative 1977 conference organized by architect Stanley Tigerman, which invited leading American designers, such as Colin Rowe, Charles Jencks, John Hejduk, and Richard Meier, to the Graham Foundation in Chicago to discuss the current state of the field. The 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial expands the spirit and scope of this event and invites over 100 emerging and established practices from across the world to Chicago to demonstrate how advances in architectural design are tackling the most pressing issues of today.

Below are some of the many Graham-supported participants and public programs appearing in the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial:

Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative

Sebastian Alvarez, Andrew Benz, Yoni Goldstein & Meredith Zielke

Aranda\Lasch

Art Institute of Chicago

Iwan Baan

BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)

Santiago Borja

David Brown

Katarina Burin

Chicago Architecture Foundation

Chicago Design Museum

Chicago Humanities Festival

Teddy Cruz

Susannah Drake

Sarah Dunn & Martin Felsen (Urban Lab)

Elmhurst Art Museum

Experimental Sound Studio

Didier Faustino

Jeanne Gang

Kersten Geers

Chris Grimley & Mark Pasnik

Dianne Harris

Stewart Hicks & Allison Newmeyer (Design with Company)

Li Hu

Florian Idenburg (SO-IL)

Camille Lacadée & François Roche  (New-Territories/[elf/b^t/c])

Jimenez Lai (Bureau Spectacular)

Sean Lally (WEATHERS)

Armin Linke

MAS Context

Michael Meredith & Hilary Sample (MOS)

Museum of Contemporary Photography

National Trust for Historic Preservation–The Farnsworth House

Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society

Pedro Reyes

Bryony Roberts

Marcos Sanchez & Mark Wasiuta

David Schalliol

Lola Sheppard & Mason White (Lateral Office)

Deane Simpson

Marcelo Spina & Georgina Huljich (P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S)

Stanley Tigerman

Video Game Art Gallery

James Wines

Deadline: November 15, 2015

The Carter Manny Award supports dissertation research and writing by promising scholars whose projects have architecture as their primary concern and focus and have the potential to shape contemporary discourse about architecture and impact the field. Projects may be drawn from the various fields of inquiry supported by the Graham Foundation: architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; the visual arts; and other related fields. The award assists students enrolled in graduate programs in architecture, art history, the fine arts, humanities, and the social sciences working on architecture topics.

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2016 Carter Manny Award now through November 15, 2015. Students must be nominated by their department to apply for the Carter Manny Award. The award is open to students officially enrolled in schools in the U.S. and Canada, regardless of citizenship.

For the award guidelines, eligibility information, and application, click here.

The Graham Foundation announces a new application deadline for the Carter Manny Award, the foundation’s annual award for doctoral students working on dissertation topics in architecture. The annual application deadline is now November 15. Applicants will be notified of funding decisions in early spring of each year. 

Applications for the 2016 Carter Manny Award are due November 15, 2015. 

Since the Carter Manny Award’s establishment in 1996, over $672,000 has been awarded 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 foundation offers this prestigious annual award in honor of Carter H. Manny and his distinguished service to the Graham Foundation since its inception in 1956, first as a Trustee, as Director from 1971, and since his retirement in 1993, as Director Emeritus.


2016 CARTER MANNY AWARD
Application available online: September 15, 2015
Application deadline: November 15, 2015
Grant decision notification: Spring 2016

Students must be nominated by their department to apply for the Carter Manny Award. The award is open to students officially enrolled in schools in the U.S. and Canada, regardless of citizenship. Further information about the application and award eligibility will be available on September 15, 2015. 


ANNOUNCEMENT OF 2015 CARTER MANNY AWARD WINNERS
Watch for our forthcoming announcement of the recipients of the 2015 Carter Manny Award on October 6, 2015.

 

In its second major grant announcement of 2015, the Graham Foundation will award $496,500 to support forty-nine groundbreaking projects by organizations around the world that chart new territory in the field of architecture. The funded projects—spanning major museum retrospectives, multi-media installations, site-specific commissions, documentary films, placemaking initiatives, e-publications, and academic journals—advance new frameworks for investigating architecture and its role in contemporary society and expand opportunities for public dialogue across geographical and disciplinary boundaries.

The new grantees comprise a diverse group of national and international organizations in cities across North America and the world, from Chicago to Mexico City, London to Buenos Aires, and Oslo to Kiev. They include both established and emerging institutions, including art and architecture museums, non-profit architecture centers and visual arts spaces, universities and alternative schools, and academic and independent publishers.

In addition, twelve of the newly announced grants will support innovative public programs and exhibitions that will coincide with the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, which runs from October 3, 2015 through January 3, 2016.

For a complete list of the 2015 Grants to Organizations and the grantee project pages, click here.

Image: Florian Joy, Bawadi, 2006. Courtesy of the MoCP. From the 2015 Graham Foundation Organizational Grant to Columbia College Chicago–Museum of Contemporary Photography for the exhibition Grace of Intention: Photography, Architecture, and the Monument.

On August 12, we’ll be announcing our new Grants to Organizations—diverse and innovative projects from organizations around the world that chart new territory in the field of architecture. For the latest news, sign up for our email list, or follow us on twitter (@GrahamFound) and facebook.

To explore the projects supported through the foundation's 2014 Grants to Organizations, click here.

 

 

Application Deadline: September 15, 2015

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2016 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.

Eligible individuals interested in applying for a grant must submit an online Inquiry Form, the first stage of a two-stage application process, by September 15, 2015 at 5PM CDT.

For more information about Graham Foundation grants and to start your Inquiry Form, please see our grant guidelines.

In 2015, the Graham Foundation awarded over $495,000 to 63 projects by individuals. Browse these and other recently funded projects here.

 

Image: Ying Xiao and Shengchen Yang, “Occupy Skyscraper”, 2012, New York. Courtesy of the artists. From the 2015 Individual Grant to Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter for the publication “Architecture is All Over” (Actar Publishers, 2015).

The Graham Foundation will be closed on Friday, July 3 and Saturday, July 4. Regular gallery and bookshop hours (11am-6pm) will resume on Wednesday, July 7.

Our current exhibition, Lina Bo Bardi: Together, is on view through Saturday, July 25, 2015.

The Graham Foundation is seeking a Program Coordinator to work directly with the Managing Director of Public Programs to coordinate and produce several original and traveling exhibitions per year in addition to a weekly schedule of public and private events. Additionally, he/she provides critical administrative support to ensure successful daily operations and long term institutional growth.

Start date: July 2015

Work schedule: Full time (Tuesday through Saturday)

Compensation: Salaried with benefits.

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