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Join us on Monday, October 5 at 5 pm for the Chicago book launch of “Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect” (@princetonupress) with a talk by author Brian D. Goldstein (@bgoldst).

A Q&A with Irene Sunwoo (@_rinks), John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, will follow the presentation.

The program, organized by MAS Context and the @illinoistecharchitecture, will take place at S. R. Crown Hall (3360 South State Street, Chicago, IL 60616).
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J. Max Bond Jr. (1935–2009) was a civil rights activist, educator, and architect who shaped such iconic structures as the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in Manhattan. Driven by the concerns of the civil rights movement, he insisted on a practice centered on deep social engagement during years when his profession became preoccupied with celebrity and spectacle.
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This book was supported by the @grahamfoundation through a 2018 Research grant. A limited number of copies of “Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect” will be sold by the Graham Foundation Bookshop at the event.
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Link in bio.
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#mascontext #briangoldstein #irenesunwoo #maxbond #boo launch by @grahamfoundation

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Announcing the 2026 grantees—this year’s Graham Foundation grants to organizations include:
Tamalpa Institute @tamalpa → an exhibition examining how Anna and Lawrence Halprin’s interdisciplinary practice—spanning dance, landscape architecture, experimental music, and participatory design—catalyzes a creative network that reshapes postwar American art, opening spring 2027 at @minnesotastreetproject during the Further Triennial @furthertriennial  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella—School of Architecture and Urban Studies @ditellaarquitectura → a publication examining Wladimiro Acosta’s (1900–1967) pioneering contributions to climate-responsive architecture, focusing on his Helios System and its enduring relevance in sustainable design, edited by Isabella Moretti and Fernando Schapochnik, forthcoming in 2028  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design @uclaaud → @pool.la student-run publication providing an outlet for creative work that traditionally falls outside of the scope of academic architectural institutions, out in 2027  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

University of Florida—Graduate School of Architecture @ufarchitecture → the eleventh edition of the architecture graduate publication produced by students, out in 2026  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

University of Oklahoma—Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture @gibbssooner → a student-run journal presenting two imaginative volumes, one that invites us to stop and recover attention amid sat by @grahamfoundation

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Announcing the 2026 grantees—this year’s Graham Foundation grants to organizations include:
National Building Arts Center @nationalbuildingartscenter → a multisensory exhibition installed in a new off-site field station in downtown St. Louis, engaging the public with the city’s architectural and landscape history through historic artifacts, opening fall 2026, curated by executive director Eric Ellingsen with Erika Allen, D. Graham Burnett, Jen Colten, Kevin Harris, and Lynne Smith  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

Pan-African Biennale @biennale_africa → a publication documenting the inaugural Pan-African Biennale in Nairobi, the continent’s first architecture biennale conceived, convened, and led from Africa, which brings together practitioners from all 54 African nations, edited by curator Omar Degan (@degan_omar) and Meriam Sehimi, forthcoming in 2027  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

Paprika! Magazine @yalepaprika → an often-monthly magazine providing contemporary insight into student voices, concerns, and design philosophies, published independently by students at Yale’s schools of Art and Architecture, out in 2026  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

PRAXIS @anybook_anystudio → a historical and critical reassessment of the tabloid-format magazine “ANY: Architecture New York (1993–2000),” with contributions from architects and theorists including Elizabeth Diller, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, and Bernard Tschumi, edited by Zachariah A. Michielli, Cathelijne Nuijsink, Ashley Schafer, and Aaron Tobey, forthcoming from @larsmullerpublishers in 2027  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on by @grahamfoundation

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Announcing the 2026 grantees—this year’s Graham Foundation grants to organizations include:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art @lacma → a major survey emphasizing the breadth of twentieth-century Black American architect Paul R. Williams’s (1894–1980) contributions, opening fall 2026  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

Los Angeles Nomadic Division @nomadicdivision → an exhibition exploring the forgotten role of artist Jody Pinto in the design of the Beach Improvement Group Project for Santa Monica State Beach and Palisades Park, opening spring 2027 at @annenbergcommunitybeachhouse, curated by Christopher Mangum-James and Oscar Peña →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

Marywood University → School of Architecture @marywood_architecture—an inaugural issue examining what architecture receives, carries, and leaves behind—materially, socially, and environmentally, out in 2026  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

mumok @mumok_vienna → Diane Simpson’s first monograph and European retrospective spanning five decades of her sculptural practice, with contributions from Nairy Baghramian, Judith Clark, Josiah McElheny, Vincent Fecteau, Jessi Reaves, and Mark Wigley, forthcoming from @buchhandlungwaltherfranzkoenig in 2027  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST @mmkfrankfurt → a publication examining the artist’s engagement with architecture and his conception of the museum as a space of evolving practice and public life, out from @buchhandlungwaltherfranzkoenig in 2026  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting ex by @grahamfoundation

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Announcing the 2026 grantees—this year’s Graham Foundation grants to organizations include:  Counterpublic @counterpublic → the third edition of this triennial, presenting 50 new artistic and architectural commissions at public sites throughout St. Louis, alongside public programs and long-lasting civic initiatives centering climate, education, and immigration, opening fall 2026, curated by Jordan Carter, Raphael Fonseca, Stefanie Hessler, Nora N. Khan, and Wanda Nanibush  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

Deem Journal @deemjournal → a symposium, now in its fourth iteration, aiming to foster dialogue around emergent and liberatory directions in design, Oct 23–24, 2026 at @mcachicago  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

LA ESCUELA___ @laescuela.art → a bilingual publication and illustrated toolkit that examines and amplifies collaborative art, architecture, and place-based learning practices across Latin America and its diasporas, forthcoming from @setmargins in 2027  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

ETH Zurich—Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) @gta_weiterbildung → a collaboratively authored volume extending the unfinished manuscript of late architectural historian Kurt W. Forster (1935–2024) by interweaving fragments of his writings with newly commissioned essays, edited by Philip Ursprung, Nicholas Adams, and Tairan An, forthcoming from @larsmullerpublishers in 2028  →→ This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.  →→→

Hyde Park Art Center @hydeparkartcenter → a research-based installation that collects oral histories and life-size casts of domesti by @grahamfoundation

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Announcing the 2026 grantees—this year’s Graham Foundation grants to
organizations include:
A83 @a83_inst → a series of exhibitions beginning Fall 2026 featuring with Barkow Leibinger, PIN–UP, modem, Smout Allen, MOS, and Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu (SO–IL), foregrounding conversations about spatial representation and contemporary image-making practices
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This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.
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The Architectural League of New York @archleague → the long-running League Prize, a biennial competition, lecture series, and exhibition, renamed in honor of Anne Rieselbach, recognizing her more than four decades of stewardship of the program
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This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.
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Canadian Centre for Architecture @canadiancentreforarchitecture → a book tracing the ideas, people, and curatorial visions that have shaped the CCA since its founding in the late 1970s, edited by Albert Ferré and Martien de Vletter and featuring oral histories with founding director Phyllis Lambert and others, forthcoming in 2027
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This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.
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Carnegie Mellon University—Remaking Cities Institute @remakingcitiesinstitute → a volume convening scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists to reimagine the post-industrial city, mobilizing selected sites in Pittsburgh as case studies, edited by Sarosh Anklesaria, Stefan Gruber, and Tuliza Sindi, forthcoming in 2027
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This project is among 45 new grants to organizations worldwide, supporting exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that advance new ideas on architecture and design.
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Chicago Architecture Biennial @chicagoarchitecturebiennial → the official publication of the sixth Biennial, gathering essays, manifestos, and conversations as an editorial experiment on dispersion by @grahamfoundation

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NEW GRANTEES: $451,000 awarded to 45 projects expanding architecture through exhibitions, publications, public programs, and international platforms.
The funded projects are led by organizations ranging from major cultural institutions and independent nonprofit spaces to academic institutions and publishers. Grantees are based in cities including Boston, Buenos Aires, Frankfurt, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Montreal, Nairobi, New York, Pittsburgh, Seattle, St. Louis, Vienna, and Zurich, as well as Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based.
See the full list of 2026 grantees at grahamfoundation.org !

A83
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Carnegie Mellon University—Remaking Cities Institute
Chicago Architecture Biennial
Citygroup
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art—Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
The Cosmic House
Counterpublic
Deem Journal
LA ESCUELA___
ETH Zurich—Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta)
Hyde Park Art Center
KoozArch
Lampo
LIGA–Space for Architecture
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles Nomadic Division
Marywood University—School of Architecture
MIT Press
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
National Academy of Design
National Building Arts Center
Pan-African Biennale
Paprika! Magazine
PRAXIS
Ragdale
Salmon Creek Arts
Serpentine Galleries
Space.City
Storefront for Art and Architecture
Tamalpa Institute
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella—School of Architecture and Urban Studies
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design
University of Florida—Graduate School of Architecture
University of Oklahoma—Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture
Urban Design Forum and The Architectural League of New York
Van Alen Institute
Wandering Eye Studios
The World Around by @grahamfoundation

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@nick.dunston ’s 𝘕𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘒𝘪𝘯 has stayed with me for weeks. Now you can see some of it here—and all of it at the link in bio.

He premiered his new song cycle about family @lampodotorg @grahamfoundation 6/6/26

With Julian Otis and Ben Lamar Gay on vocals, Gay also on cornet and electronics, and a string trio of Caroline Jesalva, Tomeka Reid, and Dunston.

Thank you, Nick, for all the conversations and planning.

#benlamargay
@cellisita
@deaconotiscooke
@carolinejesalva

Video @truthanddocumentary
Sound @alex_inglizian
Support @sseatss
𝘓𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘰 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 interview @wolencki taken in Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts by @grahamfoundation

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We're delighted to announce, together with @grahamfoundation and @storefrontnyc, the Publication Award in Contemporary Architecture (PACA).

This award will foster transformative, bold, and carefully conceived new writing that unites rigorous research with broad readership and public engagement. PACA books will be characterized by excellent writing and diverse perspectives that address global urgencies in a time of consequential change.

Winning submissions will demonstrate originality, skilled writing, intellectual rigor, bold positions, and contemporary relevance. The award will include a publication contract from the MIT Press, an author grant, and a contribution toward high-quality book production. Submissions are welcome from architects, scholars, journalists, critics, theorists, and writers from any country.

Applications for the inaugural award cycle are now open, with submissions due in November 2026, and the winner will be announced in March 2027.

Follow the link in bio for the full press release, award details, eligibility requirements, and application portal. by @grahamfoundation

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