Michael Graves was an American architect and designer born in 1934 in Indianapolis. He received degrees in architecture from the University of Cincinnati and Harvard. Graves worked for the designer George Nelson before accepting a teaching position at Princeton University in 1962. Some of Graves' most notable works include the Portland Building and the Humana Building. He is known for his postmodern style that incorporates traditional elements with modernism in a playful, innovative way.

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