Quotes by : Michael Graves

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

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

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way....

The cost is minimal, but one of the things that you want in a universal design is to make the plan as....

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good....

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

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body.....

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school....

Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.