Graves, Michael, 1934–, American architect, b. Indianapolis, Ind., educated at the Univ. of Cincinnati and Harvard. Graves was a member of the New York "Five" or "white" modernist architects during the 1960s, the other four being Richard Meier Meier, Richard (mī`ər), 1934–, American architect, b. Newark, N.J., educated at Cornell Univ.
..... Click the link for more information. , Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, and John Hejduk. In the 1970s, Graves emerged as a leading proponent of the American postmodernist style. His completed projects include the Portland Building in Portland, Oreg.; the Swan and Dolphin Hotels in Walt Disney World, Fla.; the Walt Disney Company Corporate Headquarters in Burbank, Calif.; the Newark Museum in Newark, N.J.; the Emory Univ. Museum of Art and Architecture in Atlanta, Ga.; the expansion of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; and the Central Library in Denver. Graves is also known for his design of furniture, furnishings, and artifacts.

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See M. Graves; Buildings and Projects 1966–81 (1983) and Buildings and Projects 1982–89 (1990).

Graves, Michael

(born July 9, 1934, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.) U.S. architect and designer. He studied at Harvard University and in 1962 began a long teaching career at Princeton University while designing private houses in the abstract and austere style of orthodox Modernism. In the late 1970s he rejected Modernist expression and began seeking a larger, postmodernist vocabulary. The hulking masses of the Portland Building in Portland, Ore. (1980), and the Humana Building in Louisville, Ky. (1982), display his highly personal, Cubist rendering of such Classical elements as colonnades and loggias. Though considered somewhat awkward, these and his later buildings (e.g., Indianapolis Art Center, 1996) have been acclaimed for their ironic interpretation of traditional forms. Among his later projects were the restoration of the Washington Monument (2000) and the creation of a line of household items, including kitchenware and furniture, for the discount retailer Target.

Graves, Michael (1934– ) architect; born in Indianapolis, Ind. After training at the University of Cincinnati and at Harvard, he joined the architecture faculty at Princeton (1962) and established an independent practice (1964). His designs for museums, residences, and housing and urban planning projects have put him at the forefront of postmodernist architecture. His work frequently incorporated color as architectural metaphor; his works include the Fargo-Moorehead Cultural Center Bridge (1977), which joins Fargo, N.D. and Moorehead, Minn.