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Jun 11, 2026

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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Remembering Memory: (In)formal Architectures of Resistance

Olorunfemi Adewuyi

(Lagos, Nigeria)
RESEARCH

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Military Architectures of Displacement: Documenting Spatial Erasure in the Indian Ocean

Shane Ah-Siong

(Mauritius and New York, NY)
RESEARCH

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Karel Teige’s Theory and Criticism: Reflections on Architecture, Art, and Society

Jana Ndiaye Berankova

(Prague, Czech Republic)
PUBLICATION

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Ugo La Pietra. Interior/Exterior: The Unbalancing Experiments

Marta Bertazzoni, Elisa C. Cattaneo, Simona Cesana & Ugo La Pietra

(Brescia and Milan, Italy)
PUBLICATION

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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'Brien

(Mexico City, Mexico)
PUBLICATION

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Now What?! A Call for Advocacy, Activism, and Alliances in US Architecture

Lori A. Brown & Sarah Rafson

(Cambridge, MA and Syracuse, NY)
PUBLICATION

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Layt De Kam

Ibiye Camp

(London, United Kingdom)
RESEARCH

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Brick by Brick: Black Builders and the American Landscape

Jay Cephas

(Princeton, NJ)
VIDEO SERIES

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A Study of Two Cities: Seville, Kansas City, and Social Aesthetics Across the African Atlantic

Re'al Christian

(New York, NY)
RESEARCH

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Philip G. Freelon: Artist, Architect and Griot

Arthur J. Clement & Emily G. Makaš

(Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC)
PUBLICATION

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Model Housing: Atlanta and the Foundation of American Public Housing Architecture

Christina E. Crawford

(Atlanta, GA)
PUBLICATION

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Sympoietic Architecture. Making With Lina Ghotmeh

Ilaria Di Carlo & Daria Ricchi

(London and Oxford, United Kingdom)
PUBLICATION

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Entity of Decolonization. The Afterlives of Colonial–Fascist Architecture

Emilio Distretti, Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti

(Beit Sahour, Palestine; London, United Kingdom; and Stockholm, Sweden)
PUBLICATION

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Knowing Trees: A History of Public Health

Sonja Dümpelmann

(Munich, Germany)
PUBLICATION

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Trans Reconstruction: Roberta Dickinson’s Disobedient Archive

Adrienne Economos-Miller & M.C. Overholt

(Milwaukee, WI and Philadelphia, PA)
RESEARCH

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Collective Colonialism: Missionary Competition and Architectural Contestation in Ottoman Lebanon

Yasmina El Chami

(Sheffield, United Kingdom)
PUBLICATION

Procesos Salvajes [Wild Processes]

Juan Carlos Espinosa, Carlos A. Segura & Tania Tovar

(San José, Costa Rica and Mexico City, Mexico)
EXHIBITION

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Earthen Comforts: Airing Earth

Liz Gálvez

(Berkeley, CA)
EXHIBITION

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Urban refugia

Matthew Gandy

(Cambridge, United Kingdom)
PUBLICATION

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Assembling Wood in Mexico

Alexander Garduño & Veronika Kudriashova

(Mexico City, Mexico)
RESEARCH

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Saints at a Disco

Gerard & Kelly: Brennan Gerard & Ryan Kelly

(New York, NY and Paris, France)
EXHIBITION

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Holy Modern: Technocratic Fascism, Imperial Architectures, and Opus Dei

María González Pendás

(Ithaca, NY)
PUBLICATION

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Between the Rust Belt and the Amazon: Extraction, Empire, and the Architecture of Vila Serra do Navio

Vanessa Grossman

(Philadelphia, PA)
RESEARCH

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Cracks in the Edifice: The Fairground as Constellation

Suzy Halajian & Noah Simblist

(Los Angeles, CA and Richmond, VA)
EXHIBITION

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Punch List

Christopher Hawthorne

(New Haven, CT)
PUBLICATION

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Becoming Monument

NIkolaus Hirsch & Jorge Otero-Pailos

(Brussels, Belgium and New York, NY)
EXHIBITION

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Architecture as an Earth practice

Owen Hopkins, Kabage Karanja, Stella Mutegi & Kathryn Yusoff

(London and Newcastle, United Kingdom; and Nairobi, Kenya)
PUBLICATION

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Dislocations: The Architecture, Planning and Building of Prison Cities for Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II

Lynne Horiuchi

(El Cerrito, CA)
PUBLICATION

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The Death and Life of an Apartment Building

Drawing Architecture Studio: Yan Hu, Han Li & Xintong Zhang

(Beijing, China and New York, NY)
EXHIBITION

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Andean Ecologies, Cosmologies, and Fictions across Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador

José Ibarra

(State College, PA)
RESEARCH

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Watt or Fall

Kate Joyce

(Santa Fe, NM)
PUBLICATION

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The Gardeners

Crystal Kayiza

(New York, NY)
FILM

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Designing the Insectarium

Wilfried Kuehn, Simona Malvezzi & Hubert Pelletier

(Berlin, Germany and Montreal, Canada)
PUBLICATION

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Invisible Plan: W. Joseph Black’s Black Arts Movement

Peter L'Official

(New York, NY)
RESEARCH

Vietnamese Protean Modernism and the Architecture of Thuan Tien Nguyen

Duc Le

(London, United Kingdom)
RESEARCH

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Spatial Solidarities: Architecture and Resistance in 1970s Chile

Ana María León

(Somerville, MA)
PUBLICATION

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As the Basic Repository of Inextinguishable Desires

Le'Andra LeSeur

(Tulsa, OK)
RESEARCH

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Towards the Third Foundation of Buenos Aires: Facsimile Edition of Le Corbusier’s Unpublished Plan (1929–1948)

Jorge Francisco Liernur & Isabella Moretti

(Buenos Aires, Argentina)
RESEARCH

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Blood of the Earth

Abigail Lucien

(New York, NY)
PUBLICATION

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The Stork's Stair

Future Firm: Ann Lui & Craig Reschke

(Chicago, IL)
EXHIBITION

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Concrete under the Sun: Brutalism in the Dominican Republic

Alex Martínez Suárez

(Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
PUBLICATION

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Skyline: Rereading an Architectural Tabloid

Alex Maymind, Lauren McQuistion & David Turturo

(Albuquerque, NM; Minneapolis, MN; and Lubbock, TX)
RESEARCH

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Jo Noero: South African Architecture, Politics and Spatial Justice

Jeremy Melvin

(London, United Kingdom)
RESEARCH

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A Stop

MOS: Michael Meredith & Hilary Sample

(New York, NY)
EXHIBITION

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Brasília in 35mm: The New Capital through the Lens of Photojournalism, 1956–60

Ciro Miguel

(Zurich, Switzerland)
PUBLICATION

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Flora Ruchat-Roncati: The Mountain is the Wall

Guillaume Mojon & Veronika Spierenburg

(Zurich, Switzerland)
PUBLICATION

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Sarah Oppenheimer

(New York, NY and Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
EXHIBITION

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The Proper Knowledge / The Proper Purpose

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

(New York, NY)
RESEARCH

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Weaving Nets for Water Worlds

Adriana Salazar Vélez

(Mexico City, Mexico)
EXHIBITION

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Nighthawk

Adam James Smith

(Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY)
FILM

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David Taylor

(Tucson, AZ)
EXHIBITION

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If Architecture Could Dance

Norman Teague & Bernard Williams

(Chicago, IL)
EXHIBITION

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Future Tense – Queering the Third World Architecture

Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran

(Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
RESEARCH

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The Architecture of Punta del Este 1948–1987

Leandro Villalba

(Punta del Este, Uruguay)
PUBLICATION

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