Best quotes by Michael Graves on Architecture

Checkout quotes by Michael Graves on Architecture

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

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• ‟ You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

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• ‟ I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

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• ‟ I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

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• ‟ I don't believe in morality in architecture.

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

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• ‟ For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself.

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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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• ‟ Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

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• ‟ The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

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