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Michael Graves
American
Architect
About the author
I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
Michael Graves,
American
Architect
#People
#Negative
#Value
#Care
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
Michael Graves,
American
Architect
#Architecture
#Morality
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
Michael Graves,
American
Architect
#Architecture
#Idea
#Truth
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.
Michael Graves,
American
Architect
#Career
#Goal
#Design
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.
Michael Graves,
American
Architect
#Day
#Mind
#Hardware
#Machine
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
Michael Graves,
American
Architect
#Style
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,
American
Architect
#Architecture
#Truth
#Music
#Poetry
#Invention
#Painting
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
Michael Graves,
American
Architect
#Style
#Architecture
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves,
American
Architect
#Architecture