The dialogue of architecture has been centered too... -Michael Graves

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

Michael Graves , Architect
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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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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 lo...
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 ...
Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design....
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 ...
If I have a style, I am not aware of it....
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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