Graham Foundation announces $390K for 33 projects in the 2024 organizational grants cycle

This year’s list of grants to organizations from the Graham Foundation includes 33 projects worth $390,000. As always, the money will be put toward various endeavors that foster an exchange of ideas about architecture and the areas of culture affected by it in unison with the Chicago-based Foundation’s organizing mission. A total of 12 exhibitions, 13 publications, 5 public programs, and 3 film/video productions were selected. The Graham Foundation now says it has awarded some $44 million since the program was founded in 1956.

In this year’s list, you’ll find examinations of the role of craft, feminism, and ethical considerations in architecture, as well as many prescient reflections on the field's relationship to society and urban life. Among those opening in September include the Swiss Institute’s Energies exhibition and the upcoming Paul Rudolph retrospective in New York — The Met's first major show about modern architecture in more than 50 years. 

Student-led journals from Rice and UCLA were another vital inclusion. Links to each project in the 2024 cycle can be found in the list below.

Exhibitions

• a83 - a83 Exhibition Program, 2024–25
• The Architectural League of New York - Living Legend: Cross Bronx
• Carnegie Museum of Art—Heinz Architectural Center - Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: City of Rooms
• Center for Architecture - Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture
• Citygroup - Citygroup Exhibition and Debate Program, 2025
• Craft Contemporary - Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design
• Hunter College Art Galleries - Andrea Blum: BIOTA
• LIGA—Space for Architecture - LIGA Exhibition Program, 2025
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
• Prospect New Orleans - Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home
• Storefront for Art and Architecture - Swamplands
• Swiss Institute - Energies

Film, Video, and New Media 

• Canadian Centre for Architecture - Groundwork: A Film Series on Alternative Modes of Engagement in Architecture
• Critical Design Lab (Vanderbilt University) and The DisOrdinary Architecture
  Project - Disability Meets Architecture: A Translational Repository for Critical Accessible Practice
• Innovando la Tradición -  LEOPOLDO. Living Treasures Series

Publications

• Borderless Studio and MAS Context - Beyond Closure: Reimagining Possibilities for Chicago’s Closed Schools
• Boulouki Itinerant Workshop - Under the Landscape: Disciplinary Convergences and Emerging Alliances of Worlding
• Brazilian Institute of Architects—Sao Paulo Department - Terra
• Chimurenga - African Mobilities – A Library of Circulations
• Deem Journal - Deem Journal, Issue 6: Inventing the Institution
• INSITE - INSITE Journal_07: A Timeless Way to Build
• The Jewish Museum - Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines
• Rice University—School of Architecture - PLAT 14
• Syracuse University—School of Architecture - Ethical Narratives: Essays by Richard Ingersoll (1949–2021)
• University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban - POOL, Issue No. 10
• University of Illinois at Chicago—School of Architecture - Pollen – The UIC/SoArch Journal #2
• University of the Witwatersrand—School of Arts - ellipses [spatial praxis]: Critical Perspectives in Publishing Creative Research
• Urban Design Forum and The Architectural League of New York - New City Critics

Public Programs

• City College of New York—J. Max Bond Center for Urban Futures - ARCH at Sixty: Bridging Past Visions with Present Realities
• di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art and California Indian Museum and Cultural
  Center - Towards an Archaeology of the Future
• The Funambulist - The Funambulist Conversations
• Lampo - Lampo Concert Series at the Graham Foundation
• The World Around - The World Around Summit 2025

2025 Grants to Organizations application will be available January 13th, 2025 and must be submitted no later than February 25th for consideration.