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Nov 21, 2023 · Michael Graves was an architect and designer who began his work as a practitioner of Modernist design (spare, functional design with minimal cover). He was known as a member of the New York Five ...
Michael Graves is among a group of architects who since the mid-1960s have explored the issue of an architectonic presentation of meaning, thus departing from the theoretical and formal foundations of the International Style. This reevaluation of content and form in architecture is reflected in two books on theory Robert Venturi’s Complexity ...
Feb 1, 2015 · The Big Dripper, a ceramic drip coffeemaker designed for Swid Powell (1986). Image Courtesy of Michael Graves Design Group. At times, this kitchen-sink approach has produced felicitous, even ...
Mar 21, 2015 · The great architect remembered by his friend and collaborator throughout the heyday of Postmodernism, Charles Jencks. Michael Graves complained in the 1970s about being branded the Cubist Kitchen King because it led to more and more kitchens and Cubist drawings that didn’t pay. ‘It’s a Catch 22,’ he told me, ‘only big buildings beget ...
Apr 25, 2014 · Add to Bookmarks. Ranging from the Portland building to a scrubbing brush, Michael Graves’ diverse body of work enables Paul Davies to arrive at a diagnosis of Postmodernism as a whole. ‘The alternative to political romance is to be an architect’ said Arthur Drexler in the preface to Five Architects, the launch pad for Michael Graves ...
Few are credited with spearheading a single design movement; Michael Graves, well known throughout the world for design excellence, led three. In the 1980s, Michael redirected the architectural conversation away from abstract modernism toward a more humanistic approach to architecture and urban planning, that among other things, brought color and art back into the experience of architecture. In the 1990s, his partnership with Target defined America's expectation that great design should be ...
For the full article, see Michael Graves . Michael Graves, (born July 9, 1934, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.—died March 12, 2015, Princeton, N.J.), U.S. architect and designer. He studied at Harvard University and in 1962 began a long teaching career at Princeton University while designing private houses in the abstract and austere style of ...
