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Opening Reception: Every Building in Baghdad: The Rifat Chadirji Archives at the Arab Image Foundation

The Graham Foundation 4 W Burton Place, Chicago, IL, United States

Please join us for a reception and talk by curator Mark Waisuta to celebrate the opening of our new exhibition, Every Building in Baghdad: The Rifat Chadirji Archives at the Arab Image Foundation. Thursday, September 15 6-7pm: Talk by Mark Waisuta 7-8:30pm: Opening Reception Mark Wasiuta is a curator, writer, and architect who teaches at GSAPP,

Every Building in Baghdad

The Graham Foundation 4 W Burton Place, Chicago, IL, United States

This exhibition examines the work of Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji through the collection of his original photographs and building documents held at the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut. With the work of his architectural office, Iraq Consult, and in his other professional and intellectual roles, Chadirji became a pivotal cultural figure in Baghdad during the

Bookshop Summer Sale

The Graham Foundation 4 W Burton Place, Chicago, IL, United States

Please join the Graham Foundation for its inaugural Bookshop Summer Sale beginning August 6th, 2016 with a day of refreshments, music, and special discounts. The sale will run through August 13th, 2016 ending on the final day of our current exhibition, The Flesh Is Yours, The Bones Are Ours. Don't miss the unprecedented deals or your last chance to view the work of

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New Architectures and Urbanisms of Decentralization

The Graham Foundation 4 W Burton Place, Chicago, IL, United States

Moderated by Judith De Jong and Marshall Brown. References to American suburbia typically conjure distinct images of vast, homogenous tracts of post-war residential neighborhoods, filled with white, middle-class families who left the city in search of the “American Dream” of the single-family house and lawn. Yet decentralization is neither new, nor monolithic, nor specifically American;

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