Graham Foundation awards $573,000 to 39 projects celebrated for expanding architectural discourse

The Graham Foundation has awarded $573,300 for 39 new grants to organizations. 

The recipients, which include major cultural institutions, independent nonprofit spaces, academic institutions, publishers, and community-based initiatives, were selected from more than 200 submissions. They are being recognized for projects that advance new interdisciplinary ideas on architecture and design, as well as engage the public around the world.

This year, a total of 16 exhibitions, 13 publications, 5 public programs, 5 student-led publications, and 1 film/video production were chosen. The grantees hail from cities across the world, including Vienna, Montreal, Milan, Mexico City, Rotterdam, London, Atlanta, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, to name a few. The Graham Foundation has now awarded more than 45 million dollars to over 5,200 projects.

Among the grantees are projects that celebrate the legacy of Black architects and architecture, explore liberatory design thinking, and both musical and theatrical performances. The entire list of this year’s grantees, along with links to each project, can be seen below.

Exhibitions

• A83 – A83 Exhibition Program, 2025–26
• Architectural Association School of Architecture – The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin
• Art Institute of Chicago – Bruce Goff: Material Worlds
• Canadian Centre for Architecture – Culture Lab
• Chicago Architecture Biennial – SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change
• Citygroup – Citygroup Exhibition and Debate Program, 2026
• High Museum of Art – Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer”
• Hyde Park Art Center – Alison Ruttan: The Paradox of Inaction
• Lisbon Architecture Triennale – How Heavy is a City?, Seventh Edition, Lisbon Architecture Triennale
• MAGAZIN Space for Contemporary Architecture – MAGAZIN Exhibition Program, 2025–26
• The Museum of Modern Art – Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa
• Nieuwe Instituut – FUNGI: Anarchist Designers
• Serpentine Galleries – A Capsule in Time, Serpentine Pavilion 2025 by Marina Tabassum
• Storefront for Art and Architecture – Homelands
• Tuskegee University—Legacy Museum – Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee’s Architectural Legacy
• University of Arkansas—Fay Jones School of Architecture – PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity: US Pavilion, 19th International Architecture Exhibition 

Film, Video, and New Media

• KoozArch – Space Between, Season Two

Public Programs

• Deem Journal – Design for Dignity 03: A Convening of Possibilities
• Harvard University—Graduate School of Design – Black Roots: Grounded and Growing Toward Collective Futures, Black in Design Conference 2025
• Lampo – Lampo 2025 Concert Series at the Graham Foundation
• Mobile Makers Chicago – The Design Summit for Friends of Friends
• Performa – Aria Dean: The Color Scheme

Publications

• Architecture Exchange – Memo: Writing to Architecture
• Bikini Books – Fem Pub 1960–1990: A Visual Compendium of Feminist Periodicals
• ETH Zurich—gta exhibitions – Beverly Buchanan: I Broke the House
• FORGOTTEN LANDS – FORGOTTEN LANDS, Volume 07: Poetics of Architecture
• Institute 193 – Beverly’s Athens
• Jupiter Magazine – Jupiter Magazine, Issue 008
• LIGA–Space for Architecture – In Between Projects: A Collective Revision of 15 years of LIGA–Space for Architecture
• National Public Housing Museum – The Making of the National Public Housing Museum
• New Architecture Writers – New Architecture Writers Newsletter
• New York Review of Architecture – Chicago Review of Architecture
• Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture –Rendered Visible: The Black Architectural Imagination
• SPACE FOR FREE – SPACE FOR FREE, Issues 13–24
• Urban Design Forum and The Architectural League of New York – New City Critics, 2025–26

Student-led Publications

• California State Polytechnic University, Pomona—Department of Architecture – Stable, Issue No. 1: Bad Ideas
• University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design – POOL, Issue No. 11
• University of Florida—Graduate School of Architecture – VORKURS_Interstice
• University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts – Fresh Meat Journal 15