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Michael Graves
American Architect
Born: Jul 9, 1934
Died: Mar 12, 2015
Architecture Design Good Me School You
Related authors: Christopher Alexander Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Maya Lin Neri Oxman Philip Johnson
On the first day I got my wheelchair, I was also given all my clothes for the next day, a little pile on the chair. I was so proud of myself for getting it all on - the socks and everything. Dressing is a struggle, and it can take up to an hour and a half. Michael Graves
Myself Day Struggle First Half Clothes Everything Dressing Given Take Hour Hour And A Half Also Pile Got Proud Up Getting Wheelchair Little Next Chair Socks
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
Architecture Machine Instead Know Metaphor Did Human Want Human Body Public Them Body Use Using Designing
Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable. Michael Graves
Buy Good Needs Me Unfair Design Everyone Spent Someone Objects Only Small Could Mercedes Make Goal Affordable Same Wheelchair Available Mean Should
I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it. Michael Graves
Healing Believe Design Objects Improve While Places Poor Inhibit Actually
Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design. Michael Graves
Good Me Together Experience Design Both Makes Appearance Functionality
As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist. Michael Graves
Mother Become Worried Drawing Obsessed Like Houses Child Donald Mickey Artist Things
I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people. Michael Graves
Me People Care Negative Value Smaller Boundaries Call Making Labels dont Care
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. Michael Graves
Architecture Between Pragmatic Equity Any Function Symbolic
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this. Michael Graves
Good Design Devoted Always Goal Up Much Career
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
Myself Architecture School Made First Live Furniture Married Had Bought Stuff Buildings Making Very Different Which Interested Apartment Really Designing
We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard. Michael Graves
Good You People Better Say Correct Easy Look Message Well Looks Make Beautifully Because Always Yes Very Trying Same Want Separate Hard Who Function Functions
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus. Michael Graves
Architecture School Princeton Building Worst Years Campus Taught
You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words. Michael Graves
You Architecture Words Reading Other Enough Draw About Never Read In Other Words
When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence. Michael Graves
You Logical Threshold Building Design Enough Entry Sure Making Get Front Front Door Door Rooms Sequence
We've taken on health care in a big way in our office, ever since nine years ago when I was paralyzed. I was in eight different hospitals, three different rehab centers, and all the rooms were dreadful. As an architect, designer, and patient, I can do something to help. Michael Graves
Health Care Three Big Patient Rehab Nine Our Way Dreadful Paralyzed Architect Something Hospitals Taken Since Health Care Were Years Years Ago Office Eight Different Big Way Centers Rooms Help Ever Designer
I had been designing for Alessi and Swid Powell and Steuben and high-end people, and people always complained, 'Michael, we'd love to buy your stuff, but it's too expensive.' Michael Graves
Love Buy People Too High-End Had Stuff Always Been Michael Expensive Your Designing
I don't clean now, because I'm paralyzed. But let me tell you, I would clean. I cleaned, and I ironed. It's my inner femininity. Michael Graves
Me You Tell Would Paralyzed Clean Cleaned Because Femininity Now Inner
We use blue on the handle of the Alessi kettle. Blue is cool, so you're supposed to think that it's not hot. And the bird is red: you're supposed to think to be careful to remove the bird. Michael Graves
You Bird Remove Think Be Careful Hot Red Supposed Handle Blue Use Cool Kettle Careful
When you do what I do, there are a lot of institutions that give you awards. I've gotten maybe 20 medals. They're glorious, and there's a spirit behind them. But sometimes they give you this dreadful modern glass thing. I wish everyone could afford a loving cup. Michael Graves
You Sometimes Wish Glorious Everyone Dreadful Spirit Give Could Glass Institutions Gotten Lot Cup Afford Modern Behind Maybe Loving Them Medals Awards Thing
The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century. Michael Graves
Book Architecture Century Oldest Treatise
Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it. Michael Graves
You Cheese Made Press Must Some Objects Never Pick Instinctively Like Know Look Comfortably How Smooth Trump Hand Fit Up Where Form Them Turn Use Function Garlic Designing Need

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