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2026
August 17, 2026—The Graham Foundation announces 45 Grants to Organizations totaling $451,000. Earlier this year, 54 Grants to Individuals totaling $506,000 were announced. The 2026 Carter Manny Awards will be announced later this year.
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Procesos Salvajes [Wild Processes]
Juan Carlos Espinosa, Carlos A. Segura & Tania TovarExhibition -
Earthen Comforts: Airing Earth
Liz GálvezExhibition -
Saints at a Disco
Gerard & Kelly: Brennan Gerard & Ryan KellyExhibition -
Cracks in the Edifice: The Fairground as Constellation
Suzy Halajian & Noah SimblistExhibition -
Becoming Monument
NIkolaus Hirsch & Jorge Otero-PailosExhibition -
The Death and Life of an Apartment Building
Drawing Architecture Studio: Yan Hu, Han Li & Xintong ZhangExhibition -
The Stork's Stair
Future Firm: Ann Lui & Craig ReschkeExhibition -
A Stop
MOS: Michael Meredith & Hilary SampleExhibition -
N-06
Sarah OppenheimerExhibition -
Weaving Nets for Water Worlds
Adriana Salazar VélezExhibition -
COMPLEX
David TaylorExhibition -
If Architecture Could Dance
Norman Teague & Bernard WilliamsExhibition -
A83 Exhibition Program, 2026–27
a83Exhibition -
Citygroup Exhibition and Debate Program, 2027
CitygroupExhibition -
Tonika Lewis Johnson
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College ChicagoExhibition -
Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time
CounterpublicExhibition -
Stories from Within: Home, Here and There
Hyde Park Art CenterExhibition -
Jody Pinto: B.I.G.
Los Angeles Nomadic DivisionExhibition -
The Feathered Whale and Other Works by Enrique Murillo, Xalapa, Mexico
LIGA–Space for ArchitectureExhibition -
Women Dancing Down the Side of a Building
Los Angeles Contemporary ExhibitionsExhibition -
Paul R. Williams: Architect for Living
Los Angeles County Museum of ArtExhibition -
MCA 60: Amanda Williams
Museum of Contemporary Art ChicagoExhibition -
Front of House (2026) and Stage Prop (2027), Ragdale Ring Design-Build Competition
RagdaleExhibition -
a serpentine, Serpentine Pavilion 2026 by LANZA atelier
Serpentine GalleriesExhibition -
Regenerative Futures: Landscape and Design
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design MuseumExhibition -
Preservation Station 777
National Building Arts CenterExhibition -
Alia Farid: Elsewhere (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominicana)
Storefront for Art and ArchitectureExhibition -
The Artist Within Us All: The Halprins and their Circle of Influence
Tamalpa InstituteExhibition -
Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design
Van Alen InstituteExhibition -
Raimund Abraham: Earthquake of Silence
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art-Irwin S. Chanin School of ArchitectureExhibition -
The Gardeners
Crystal KayizaFilm -
Nighthawk
Adam James SmithFilm -
Vanishing Point: An Architect’s Journey
Wandering Eye StudiosFilm -
Space Between, Season Three
KoozarchPodcast -
Publication Award in Contemporary Architecture (PACA)
MIT PressPublic Program -
The Anne Rieselbach Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers
The Architectural League of New YorkPublic Program -
Design for Dignity 04: A Convening of Possibilities
Deem JournalPublic Program -
Lampo 2026 Concert series at the Graham Foundation
LampoPublic Program -
Latin Catalyst: CDMX Mexico Works
Space.CityPublic Program -
The World Around Summit 2027
The World AroundPublic Program -
Punch List
Christopher HawthornePublication -
Karel Teige’s Theory and Criticism: Reflections on Architecture, Art, and Society
Jana Ndiaye BerankovaPublication -
Ugo La Pietra. Interior/Exterior: The Unbalancing Experiments
Marta Bertazzoni, Elisa C. Cattaneo, Simona Cesana & Ugo La PietraPublication -
Ediciones Eje, Issue 04: Mantener, reparar y sostener/Maintain, repair and sustain; Issue 05: Agua/Water
Santiago Bonilla Hastings, Daniella Camarena, Lucas Hoops & James O'BrienPublication -
Now What?! A Call for Advocacy, Activism, and Alliances in US Architecture
Lori A. Brown & Sarah RafsonPublication -
Philip G. Freelon: Artist, Architect and Griot
Arthur J. Clement & Emily G. MakašPublication -
Model Housing: Atlanta and the Foundation of American Public Housing Architecture
Christina E. CrawfordPublication -
Sympoietic Architecture. Making With Lina Ghotmeh
Ilaria Di Carlo & Daria RicchiPublication -
Entity of Decolonization. The Afterlives of Colonial–Fascist Architecture
Emilio Distretti, Sandi Hilal & Alessandro PettiPublication -
Knowing Trees: A History of Public Health
Sonja DümpelmannPublication -
Collective Colonialism: Missionary Competition and Architectural Contestation in Ottoman Lebanon
Yasmina El ChamiPublication -
Urban refugia
Matthew GandyPublication -
Holy Modern: Technocratic Fascism, Imperial Architectures, and Opus Dei
María González PendásPublication -
Architecture as an Earth practice
Owen Hopkins, Kabage Karanja, Stella Mutegi & Kathryn YusoffPublication -
Dislocations: The Architecture, Planning and Building of Prison Cities for Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II
Lynne HoriuchiPublication -
Watt or Fall
Kate JoycePublication -
Designing the Insectarium
Wilfried Kuehn, Simona Malvezzi & Hubert PelletierPublication -
Spatial Solidarities: Architecture and Resistance in 1970s Chile
Ana María LeónPublication -
Concrete under the Sun: Brutalism in the Dominican Republic
Alex Martínez SuárezPublication -
Brasília in 35mm: The New Capital through the Lens of Photojournalism, 1956–60
Ciro MiguelPublication -
Flora Ruchat-Roncati: The Mountain is the Wall
Guillaume Mojon & Veronika SpierenburgPublication -
The Architecture of Punta del Este 1948–1987
Leandro VillalbaPublication -
Blood of the Earth
Abigail LucienPublication -
SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change
Chicago Architecture BiennialPublication -
Diane Simpson: Dressing Up
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig WienPublication -
The Centre in Motion: Stories from the First Pan-African Biennale
Pan-African BiennalePublication -
Architecture and the National Academy of Design: An Untold History
National Academy of DesignPublication -
New City Critics, 2026–27
Urban Design Forum and the Architectural League of New YorkPublication -
CCA Oral Histories: You can sit and think, and you have what you have to do
Canadian Centre for ArchitecturePublication -
Making Alive! Reworlding Cities: Decommodified · Regenerative · Pluriversal
Carnegie Mellon University-Remaking Cities InstitutePublication -
Wait a Minute: How the History of the Earth Impinges on Architecture
ETH Zurich-Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta)Publication -
Madelon Vriesendorp: Too Late to Die Young
The Cosmic HousePublication -
LA ESCUELA___: The School as Practice and Place
LA ESCUELA___Publication -
Anthracite Journal, Volume 1: Inheritance
Marywood University-School of ArchitecturePublication -
Michael Asher
MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNSTPublication -
Paprika! Magazine, Volume XV
Paprika! MagazinePublication -
ANY Book: Reading Architecture of the 90s Through the Lens of ANY Magazine
PraxisPublication -
COMMUNAL
Salmon Creek ArtsPublication -
The Wladimiro Acosta Archive: An Update on Climate Responsive Design
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella-School of Architecture and Urban StudiesPublication -
POOL, Issue No. 12
University of California, Los Angeles-Department of Architecture and Urban DesignPublication -
VORKURS XI: AFTERIMAGE
University of Florida-Graduate School of ArchitecturePublication -
Telesis, Volume IX: Pause and Volume X: React
University of Oklahoma-Christopher C. Gibbs College of ArchitecturePublication -
Jo Noero: South African Architecture, Politics and Spatial Justice
Jeremy MelvinResearch -
Remembering Memory: (In)formal Architectures of Resistance
Olorunfemi AdewuyiResearch -
Military Architectures of Displacement: Documenting Spatial Erasure in the Indian Ocean
Shane Ah-SiongResearch -
Layt De Kam
Ibiye CampResearch -
A Study of Two Cities: Seville, Kansas City, and Social Aesthetics Across the African Atlantic
Re'al ChristianResearch -
Trans Reconstruction: Roberta Dickinson’s Disobedient Archive
Adrienne Economos-Miller & M.C. OverholtResearch -
Assembling Wood in Mexico
Alexander Garduño & Veronika KudriashovaResearch -
Between the Rust Belt and the Amazon: Extraction, Empire, and the Architecture of Vila Serra do Navio
Vanessa GrossmanResearch -
Andean Ecologies, Cosmologies, and Fictions across Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador
José IbarraResearch -
Vietnamese Protean Modernism and the Architecture of Thuận Tiến Nguyễn
Duc LeResearch -
As the Basic Repository of Inextinguishable Desires
Le'Andra LeSeurResearch -
Towards the Third Foundation of Buenos Aires: Facsimile Edition of Le Corbusier’s Unpublished Plan (1929–1948)
Jorge Francisco Liernur & Isabella MorettiResearch -
Invisible Plan: W. Joseph Black’s Black Arts Movement
Peter L'OfficialResearch -
Skyline: Rereading an Architectural Tabloid
Alex Maymind, Lauren McQuistion & David TurturoResearch -
The Proper Knowledge / The Proper Purpose
Sharifa Rhodes-PittsResearch -
Future Tense – Queering the Third World Architecture
Arlette Quynh-Anh TranResearch -
Brick by Brick: Black Builders and the American Landscape
Jay CephasVIDEO SERIES
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