In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
About Michael Graves
Michael Graveswas 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.
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I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
American architect and designer of consumer products
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
American architect and designer of consumer products
It was always my goal to ‘up the ante’ on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.
American architect and designer of consumer products
I don’t believe in morality in architecture.
American architect and designer of consumer products
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.
American architect and designer of consumer products
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.
American architect and designer of consumer products
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
American architect and designer of consumer products
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
American architect and designer of consumer products
I don’t care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
American architect and designer of consumer products