American - Architect | July 9, 1934 - March 12, 2015
Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.
Michael Graves
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I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.
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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.
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Views are overrated; it's light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami's South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming into a room - it never gets old.
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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.
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In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't believe in morality in architecture.
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I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
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It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.
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