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Apr 14, 2026

Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.

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Current Exhibition

Presented for the first time in the United States, Latinitudes is a photographic survey of modern architecture across twelve Latin American cities: Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, Guatemala City, Havana, Lima, Mexico City, Montevideo, Quito, San José, Santiago, and São Paulo. Featuring more than 100 photographs the exhibition presents modern architecture across Latin America from a new perspective.

Catherine Seavitt examines two rarely addressed moments in the career of Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994): his absence from the initial planning and execution of Brasília in 1960, and his later affiliation with Brazil's military dictatorship as a member of the Conselho Federal de Cultura in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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.

GRANTEE EXHIBITIONS

Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL)

Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal, QC)

Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam, NL)


GRANTEE PODCASTS

Season two of the Space Between podcast builds on the belief that conversations, bridging across different spheres, can extend our ability to imagine better futures.