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Encyclopedia > Michael Graves
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A Design for Living (3716 words)
Graves has no plans to retire, but six years ago he arranged a succession plan, naming six partners whose average tenure at the firms is 20 years.
Graves recalls that painter Chuck Close, whose paralysis is so severe that he has to hold a brush between his teeth, called while he was in rehab.
Graves is a notorious workaholic and famously private man; his colleagues are the closest thing he has to family in the immediate area.
Michael Graves Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography (1258 words)
Michael Graves (born 1934) was a leading American architect and designer, instrumental in the emergence of Post-Modernism in the mid-1970s.
By the mid-1970s Michael Graves was moving vigorously away from the Modern tradition and toward an architecture he characterized as "figurative"--that is, related in visual and symbolic ways to human beings.
Graves' architecture increasingly used anthropomorphic metaphors, such as the classical three-part division of a wall to suggest the feet, body, and head of a human figure.
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