In any architecture, there is an equity... | Michael Graves

Architecture

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

- Michael Graves

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Style

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

- Michael Graves

Architecture Music

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

Architecture

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

- Michael Graves

Day Mind

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

Architecture

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

- Michael Graves

Value People Care

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

- Michael Graves

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