The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. -Michael Graves Architecture
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. -Michael Graves Truth
The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century. -Michael Graves Architecture
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. -Michael Graves Architecture
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. -Michael Graves Architecture
You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words. -Michael Graves Architecture
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. -Michael Graves Architecture
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus. -Michael Graves Architecture
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. -Michael Graves Music
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. -Michael Graves Architecture
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. -Michael Graves Architecture
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. -Michael Graves Poetry
