CURRENT EXHIBITION
LATINITUDES 
A Collection of Modern Architecture
Photographs by Leonardo Finotti
Curated by Michelle Jean de Castro
April 2–July 18, 2026
Opening April 2, 6–8 p.m.; gallery hours resume April 3

GALLERY AND BOOKSHOP HOURS
Wednesday–Saturday, 12–5 p.m.
Free admission, no reservations required—ring the doorbell for entry.

Image: Facultad de Ingeniería de Minas, Geología y Metalurgia (Faculty of Mining, Geology, and Metallurgical Engineering), Lima, Peru, designed by Walter Weberhofer, 1956–62. Photograph by Leonardo Finotti, 2016. © Leonardo Finotti

UPCOMING EVENTS

Nile Greenberg presents Architecture of Noise, his research as the 2025–26 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) School of Architecture. Greenberg asserts that the present is a battery—that we preside over a time of noise, not signal and noise, not the noise of the past, but a gesamtkunstwerk of noise: every inch authored by someone.

Through projects and research developed at UIC, he examines how architecture can operate within overlapping crises—environmental, economic, and political—where control is often dispersed across many actors and systems. Architecture must author and reauthor its contexts and sites, remake the present, and confront its responsibilities and its risks. Greenberg positions this as a call for architecture to recalibrate itself within crisis, within noise, and within its history.

This talk follows the exhibition of Architecture of Noise at the Edith Farnsworth House (April 19–20), which brings together a series of projects: a film; a reimagined history of Chicago; a survey of sites shaped by environmental and economic forces; a visual survey of Chicago architecture; and a new masterplan for the Farnsworth House. Part of the exhibition, including Illuminated Archive and the film 100% Authored, will be on view in the Graham Foundation's third-floor gallery in conjunction with the talk.

Related Exhibition:

Nile Greenberg is a founding partner of Abel Nile New York. Abel Nile New York guest edited the 2025 issue of Flash Art Volumes on the theme of Crisis Formalism—a dossier of architectural responses to re-integrate architectural form and crisis. Greenberg serves as architecture editor at The Brooklyn Rail, overseeing a section that focuses on the relationship between architecture and art. His published works include coauthoring The Advanced School of Collective Feeling (Park Books, 2023), a study on the relationship between physical culture and housing in the 1920 and curating the exhibition Two Sides of the Border at Yale. Greenberg is the 2025-26 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow at University of Illinois Chicago. He has taught at University of Illinois Chicago; Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP); and Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP). His work has been presented at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; ETH Zürich, Zurich; Spazio Maiocchi, Milan; Center for Architecture, New York; Rice University, Houston; Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge;  University of Melbourne, Melbourne; and The Cooper Union, New York Greenberg was recognized as New Practices New York 2020-23 by American Institute of Architects, New York (AIANY).

About the Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship
Named in honor of architect and educator Doug Garofalo (1958–2011), this nine-month teaching fellowship provides emerging designers the opportunity to teach studio and seminar courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs and conduct independent design research. The fellowship also includes a public lecture at the Graham Foundation and an exhibition at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Architecture. To learn more about the fellowship, click here.

Note: This event will be held in the ballroom on the third floor of the Madlener House, which is only accessible by stairs. The first-floor galleries and bookshop are accessible via outdoor lift. Please contact us at 312.787.4071 or info@grahamfoundation.org to make arrangements.

Image: Architecture of Noise (model), 2026. Photo: Nile Greenberg

In this lecture, Catherine Seavitt explores two often overlooked episodes in the career of Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94): his absence from the original planning of Brasília in 1960 and his later association with Brazil’s military dictatorship through service on the Conselho Federal de Cultura. Seavitt argues that any discussion of Burle Marx and Brasília must take these histories into account. She considers, in particular, his later work for the military government in Brasília, including two ministry palace gardens and Praça dos Cristais, the large triangular plaza at army headquarters created with architect Oscar Niemeyer. Commissioned in 1967 as a military parade ground and inaugurated in 1973, Praça dos Cristais reveals the political context in which Burle Marx’s late work in the capital took shape.

The talk draws on Seavitt's book Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship (University of Texas Press, 2023), supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation, and is presented in conjunction with Latinitudes: A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture.

Catherine Seavitt is Meyerson Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design. She is the faculty codirector of the McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology and creative director of the department’s LA+ Journal. A registered architect and landscape architect, she is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Institute of Architects, the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, and the American Academy in Rome. Her research explores urban landscapes, post-industrial sites, toxicity, and inventive plant knowledge, with a focus on actionable responses to the climate crisis and decarbonization. Seavitt’s books include Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship (University of Texas Press, 2023); Structures of Coastal Resilience, with Guy Nordenson and Julia Chapman (Island Press, 2018); and Four Corridors, with Guy Nordenson and Paul Lewis (Hatje Cantz, 2019).


Image:  Roberto Burle Marx, aerial view of the Crystal Plaza garden for the Ministry of the Army with Oscar Niemeyer's Army Headquarters complex seen beyond, 1972, Brasília, Brazil. Courtesy of the Arquivo Público do Distrito Federal.

For more information on the exhibition, Latinitudes
A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture, click here.

Bacalar Eco-Park Ⓒ Colectivo C733

SATURDAY, MAY 9, 10 AM – 5 PM CDT

CLICK HERE to register to attend the in-person live-stream watch party in Chicago at the Graham Foundation
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Join us to watch the live-stream of The World Around Summit 2026—a convening of global architecture’s “now, near, and next.” The World Around Summit is a conference featuring luminaries from architecture, design, and beyond presented online and in-person at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. This all-day program co-curated by Beatrice Galilee and Martino Stierli, presents a year of architecture and design in a day, introducing the best of contemporary buildings, and exploring cutting-edge and inspiring new projects and initiatives in landscape, climate intelligence, and design—all through the lens of social and ecological justice. The 2026 World Around Summit is co-presented with The Museum of Modern Art.

An international and interdisciplinary line-up of speakers will present new approaches to landscape and urbanism, material innovation, equitable futures, housing, museums, and community. The World Around’s format of short, singular presentations are intended to share the exciting and extraordinary ways in which architects are addressing the critical topics of our time. As part of the nonprofit’s mission to make its programming accessible to all, the summit will be live-streamed globally.

PARTICIPANTS
Alejandro Aravena (Santiago, Chile), Tatiana Bilbao (Mexico City, Mexico), Gabriela Carrillo (Mexico City, Mexico), Marie Combette (Quito, Ecuador), François-Xavier Gbré (La Rochelle, France / Abidjan, Ivory Coast), Róisín Heneghan (Dublin, Ireland), Mariam Issoufou (New York City), Michael Kimmelman (New York City), Nguyễn Hải Long (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), Daniel Moreno Flores (Quito, Ecuador), Trần Thị Ngụ Ngôn (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), Piet Oudolf (Hummelo, Netherlands), Søren Pihlmann (Copenhagen, Denmark), Bas Smets (Brussels, Belgium), Peggy Weil (Los Angeles), Sara Zewde (New York City), Mohamed Salem Mohamed Ali (Smara Camp, Tindouf, Algeria)

Founded in 2020, The World Around (TWA) is a global nonprofit platform headquartered in New York, with a simple but ambitious mission: to rethink architecture. Taking the most critical issue of our time—the climate crisis—as the lens to view all of their activities, TWA connects with global institutions to craft unique public conversations that look beyond buildings to investigate the often-invisible forces that shape our homes, cities, landscapes, and lives. The World Around Summit 2026 is co-presented with The Museum of Modern Art.

To learn more about the 2026 Summit and browse past presentations, click here.

Patricio del Real presents his book, Constructing Latin America. Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art (Yale University Press, 2022)—a nuanced look at how, through architecture exhibitions, this New York institution became a key agent in cultural politics in the United States and in the consolidation of “Latin American architecture” as a modernist category. Del Real demonstrates how The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s curatorial activities generated and naturalized “Latin America” not only as a stylistic and cultural variant of international modernism but also as a racializing concept at a critical global conjuncture. The idea of “Latin American architecture” was seminal for the interpretation of modern architecture in the twentieth century and, moreover, for MoMA’s international projection as cultural arbiter in the Cold War period. It remains an active category that underpins studies on architectural modernism as a global phenomenon. Constructing Latin America was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation in 2021. This talk is presented in conjunction with Latinitudes: A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture by Leonardo Finotti, on view at the Graham Foundation through July 18, 2026.

Patricio del Real is known for his expertise in the field of architecture and architecture history, with a focus in the Americas. His work examines the intersections of buildings, politics and cultural identity. As an architectural historian, he contributes to a deeper understanding of the global dimensions of modernism, shedding light on its unique transformations and adaptations. One of his notable contributions is his focus on institutions and the transnational flows of ideas and practices and how these migrations have impacted both the development of architectural forms and the practices of architects in the second postwar period. Del Real is associate professor in the department of the history of art and architecture at Harvard University. Before his appointment at Harvard, he worked at The Museum of Modern Art’s architecture and design department on several temporary and collection exhibitions, and cocurated Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980.

Image: Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Fashion shoot in front of the Ministério da Educação e Saúde (MES), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as published in, “Urban Cotton: For Being at Ease,” Harper’s Bazaar, May 1946

For more information on the exhibition, Latinitudes
A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture, click here.

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