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Founded in 1956 by a bequest from prominent Chicago architect Ernest R. Graham, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture and society.
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Centennial Activities
Exhibit : Friday, October 16, 2009 to Saturday, March 13, 2010
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Actions: What You Can Do With the City presents 99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world. Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their experimental interactions with the urban environment show the potential influence personal involvement can have in shaping the city and challenge fellow residents to participate. Related lectures include: [MORE]
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 6:00pm
Did Someone Say Participate?
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
This event has been canceled due to illness.
Berlin-based architect and researcher Markus Miessen — editor of the 2006 anthology Did Someone Say Participate?: An Atlas of Spatial Practice and 2007's The Violence of Participation — presents this lecture related to the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City. [MORE]
Thursday, November 12, 2009 6:00pm
Lecture: Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, founder of Philadelphia-based NAO (Normal Architecture Office), presents a lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City. Weiss is an architect educated at Harvard University and Belgrade University. His book Almost Architecture explores the roles of architecture vis-a-vis democratic processes, abrupt political changes and architectural appearance of post-communist ideologies. [MORE]
Thursday, October 29, 2009 6:00pm
Make No Medium-Sized Plans
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Dan Wood — principal at New York-based WORKac (Work Architecture Company) and Adjunct Professor at Princeton University's School of Architecture — presents this lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City. [MORE]
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