Madlener House
4 West Burton Place
Chicago, Illinois 60610
312.787.4071
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In addition to a grant program that supports projects by individuals and organizations around the world, the Graham Foundation has presented an important program of exhibitions and lectures for over 50 years. Major figures such as Reyner Banham, Buckminster Fuller, Louis Kahn, Rem Koolhaas, Paul Rudolph, James Stirling and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown among many others, have lectured at the Graham Foundation. The exhibition program has included monographic exhibitions on Pritzker Prize winners such as Richard Meier, Richard Rogers and Kenzo Tange. In 1965, the Graham Foundation Director John Entenza opened the first exhibition at the Madlener House: Architecture without Architects by Bernard Rudofsky, originally produced by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The Graham Foundation was created by a bequest from Ernest R. Graham (1866–1936), a prominent Chicago architect who was a protégé of Daniel Burnham.
The Graham Foundation is located at the Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL 60610.
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.
