modern architect

2.  July 9, 1934 in Indianapolis, Indiana
 receiving his diploma in 1950 at Broad Ripple
High School
 architectural training, degree of Bachelor of
Science in Architecture in 1958 at University of
Cincinnati
 a master's degree from Harvard University.
 went to work for the designer and architect,
George Nelson, where his long-standing
interest in furniture design was encouraged.
 in 1960 he was the recipient of the Prix de
Rome fellowship of the American Academy in
Rome.
 In 1962, Michael Graves accepted a teaching
position at Princeton University.

3. • In 2003, an infection of unknown origin
(possibly bacterial meningitis) left Graves paralyzed
from the waist down. He is still active in his practice,
which is currently involved in a number of projects;
including an addition to the Detroit Institute of Arts,
and a large Integrated Resort,Resorts World
Sentosa in Singapore.
• designed furnishings, artifacts, jewelry, and
dinnerware for companies such as Disney, Alessi,
Steuben, Phillips Electronics, and Black & Decker.
Most recently, Michael Graves is most famous for
designing more than 100 products, ranging from a
toilet brush to a $60,000 outdoor pavilion, for Target
stores.

4.  I don't care what people call me, labels
have the negative value of making smaller
boundaries for people.
 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.
 I don't believe in morality in architecture.
 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.

5.  Postmodernist who brings innovation and
playful design to sophisticated buildings.
 Familiar shapes and details are used in
unexpected ways.
 Buildings may incorporate symbols to make a
statement or simply to delight the viewer.
 use of color and to his interest in a figurative
architecture that incorporates traditional
elements along with the lessons of modernism.
 man obsessed with communicating the
meaning of every element of his work. His soft,
muted colors reinforce this concern for
symbolism".

7.  Built : 1980- 1982
 Type : Government offices
 Cost : US$29 million
 Floor : 15
 Location : Portland, Multnomah
County, Oregon, USA
 height : 71.6 m

8.  Its distinctive block-like design and square.
 Use of sculptural forms ornaments.
WINDOW
 Cubical facades treated in the classical three part division or
tripartite form with the base,shaft and corniceAntropomorphism.
FACADE
 Uses column as an surface treatment and defining the cornice
or the head of the buildin and enterance.
 Façade are symmetry and linierity broken by adding vertical
band of color and window
SCULPTURAL ELEMENT
 These form are sculptural and somewhat playfull
 These forms are not reduced to an absolute minimum;they are
built and shaped for their own sake.
 The buIlding units all fit together in a very organic way which
anhance the effect of the form.
 It has a typical symmetrical façade which was at the time
prevalent throughout postmodern building

11.  Built : 1967
 Type : house
 Context : suburban
 StyleBlock : massing
 House content : family of two adults and
four children
 The house is understood frontally by the
layering of three principal facades
 . The house and the space immediately in
front of it make a double square in plan
and volumetrically a double cube, with one
being open and the other enclosed