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Michael Graves

architect, university teacher, designer, draftsperson, painter

1934 – 2015

Michael Graves was an American architect, designer, and educator, and principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. He was a member of The New York Five and the Memphis Group and a professor of architecture at Princeton University for nearly forty years. Following his own partial paralysis in 2003, Graves became an internationally recognized advocate of health care design.

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I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

Michael Graves

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

Michael Graves

For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself.

Michael Graves

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

Michael Graves

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

Michael Graves

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

Michael Graves

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

Michael Graves

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

Michael Graves

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

Michael Graves

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Michael Graves

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

Michael Graves

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

Michael Graves

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

Michael Graves

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Michael Graves

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Michael Graves