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Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect, designer, and educator, and principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. He was a member of
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and the Memphis Group and a professor of architecture at
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for nearly forty years. Following his own partial paralysis in 2003, Graves became an internationally recognized advocate of health care design. Graves' global portfolio of architectural work ranged from the Ministry of Culture in
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, a post office for Celebration, Florida, a prominent expansion of the Denver Public Library to numerous commissions for
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and the scaffolding design for the 2000
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restoration. He was recognized for his influence on architectural movements, including
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, New Classicism, and
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. His postmodern buildings include the Portland Building in
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and the
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in
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. For his architectural work, Graves received a
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of the
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as well as its highest award, the
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(2001). He was trustee of the
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and was the president of its Society of Fellows from 1980 to 1984. He received the American Prize for Architecture, the
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(1999) and the Driehaus Architecture Prize (2012). Graves produced both high end and mass consumer product designs for several companies, including Alessi in Italy and Target and J. C. Penney in the United States. ''The
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'' described Graves as "one of the most prominent and prolific American architects of the latter 20th century, who designed more than 350 buildings around the world but was perhaps best known for teakettle and pepper mill."


Early life and education

Graves was born on July 9, 1934, in
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,
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, to Erma (née Lowe) and Thomas B. Graves. He grew up in the city's suburbs and later credited his mother for suggesting that he become an engineer or an architect. Graves graduated from Indianapolis's Broad Ripple High School in 1952 and earned a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1958 from the
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. During college he also became a member of the
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fraternity. Graves earned a
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in architecture from
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in 1959. After graduation from college, Graves spent a year working in George Nelson's office. Nelson, a furniture designer and the creative director for Herman Miller, exposed Graves to the work of fellow designers Charles and Ray Eames and Alexander Girard. In 1960 Graves won the
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's Prix de Rome (
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) and spent the next two years at the academy in Italy. Graves describes himself as "transformed" by his experience in Rome: "I discovered new ways of seeing and analyzing both architecture and landscape."


Career

Graves began his career in 1962 as a professor of architecture at
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, where he taught for nearly four decades and later helped to establish the Michael Graves College at
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in Union Township, New Jersey, and established his own architectural firm in 1964 at
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. Graves worked as an architect in public practice designing a variety of buildings that included private residences, university buildings, hotel resorts, hospitals, retail and commercial office buildings, museums, civic buildings, and monuments. During a career that spanned nearly fifty years, Graves and his firm designed more than 350 buildings around the world, and an estimated 2,000 household products.


Princeton University

In 1962, after two years of studies in Rome, Graves returned to the United States and moved to
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, where he accepted a professorship at the Princeton University School of Architecture. Graves taught at Princeton for thirty-nine years while simultaneously practicing architecture. He retired as the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture, Emeritus, in 2001. Although Graves was a longtime faculty member at Princeton and trained many of its architecture students, the university did not allow its faculty to practice their profession on its campus. As a result, Graves was never commissioned to design a building for the university. Later in his life he contributed to the founding of a new college, which bears his name at
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.


Architect

In his early years as an architect, Graves did designs for home renovation projects in Princeton. In 1964 he founded the architectural firm of Michael Graves & Associate in Princeton and remained in public practice there until the end of his life. His firm maintained offices in Princeton, New Jersey, and in
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, but his residence in Princeton served as his design studio, home office and library, and a place to display the many objects he collected during his world travels. Nicknamed "The Warehouse", it also displayed many of the household items he designed. After Graves's death,
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acquired his former home and studio in Princeton, along with two adjacent buildings. Also:


Modernist

Graves spent much of the late 1960s and early 1970s designing
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residences. His first commission was the Hanselman House in
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, a design completed in 1971. The modernist structure built for $55,000 received an American Institute of Architects Honor Award in 1975. The New York Times described the home as "another of Graves's experiments in cubist‐influenced spatial manipulations" and cited the obvious influence of
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on Graves' work. Built for friends he met in high school, the home went up for sale in 2017 for $264,888. The four-bedroom residence features a Graves-painted mural in the living room signed by the architect during a visit to the home in 2000. He also designed the Snyderman House in Fort Wayne (1972, destroyed by fire in 2002) . Graves also became one of the New York Five, along with
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, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk and
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. This informal group of Princeton and New York City architects, also known as the Whites due to the predominant color of their architectural work, espoused a pure form of
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characterized by clean lines and minimal ornamentation. The New York Five became the "standard-bearers of a movement to elevate modernist architectural form into a serious theoretical pursuit." The book, ''Five Architects'' (1973) describes some of their early work.


Postmodernist

In the late 1970s, Graves shifted away from modernism to pursue
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and
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design for the remainder of his career. He began by sketching designs that had
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-inspired elements and strong, saturated colors. Postmodernism allowed Graves to introduce his humanist vision of classicism, as well as his sense of irony and humor. His designs, notable for their "playful style" and "colorful facades," were a "radical departure" from his earlier work. The Plocek Residence (1977), a private home in Warren Township, New Jersey, was among the first of his designs in this new style. Graves designed some of his most iconic buildings in the early 1980s, including the Portland Building. The fifteen-story Portland Municipal Services Building, his first major public commission, opened in 1982 in downtown
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. The "monolithic cube" with decorated facades and colorful, oversized columns is "considered a seminal Postmodern work" and one of Graves's best-known works of architecture. The celebrated but controversial municipal office also became an icon for the city of Portland and subject to an ongoing preservation debate. Regarded as the first major built example of
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in a tall office building, the Portland Building was added to the
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in 2011. Although it faced demolition in 2014, the city government decided to proceed with a renovation, estimated to cost $195 million. As a result of the notoriety he received from the Portland Building design, Graves was awarded other major commissions in the 1980s and 1990s. Notable buildings from this period include the
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(1982) in
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and the Newark Museum expansion (1982) in
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. Some architecture critics, including Paul Goldberger of ''The New York Times'', consider the Humana Building, a skyscraper in
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, one of Graves's finest building designs. ''TIME'' magazine also claimed it was a commercial icon for the city of Louisville and one of the best buildings of the 1980s. The San Juan Capistrano Library (1982) in
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, another project from this period, shows his interpretation of the Mission Revival style. Graves and his firm also designed several buildings for the
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in the postmodern style. These include the Team Disney headquarters in
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; the
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(1987) and
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(1988) resorts at
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in
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; and Disney's Hotel New York (1989) at
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. Patrick Burke, the project architect for the two resort hotels in Florida, commented that the Walt Disney Company described Graves's designs as "entertainment architecture." In addition to the Swan and Dolphin hotel buildings, Graves's firm designed their original interiors, furnishings, signage, and artwork. Graves's other notable commissions for buildings that were completed in the 1990s include an expansion of the Denver Public Library (1990) and the renovation of the
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(1990). Postmodern architecture did not have a long-lasting popularity and some of Graves's clients rejected his ideas. For example, his design for an expansion of Marcel Breuer's Whitney Museum of American Art building in New York City in the mid-1980s was highly contested and never built due to architect and local opposition. Graves's designs for a planned Phoenix Municipal Government Center complex were among the project's finalists, but his concept was not selected as the winning entry. Graves's prominence as a postmodernist architect may have reached its peak during the 1980s and in the early 1990s, but he continued to practice as an architect until his death in 2015. Later works include the O'Reilly Theater (1996) in
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,
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; the NCAA Hall of Champions in Indianapolis, Indiana; and 425 Fifth Avenue (2000) in New York City, among others. Graves also received recognition for his multi-year renovation of his personal residence in Princeton. International projects included the Sheraton Miramar Hotel (1997) in El Gouna,
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, and the Hard Rock Hotel in
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. One of the last projects that Michael Graves and Associates was involved in before Graves's death was the Louwman Museum (2010) in
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,
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. Gary Lapera, a principal and studio head of Michael Graves and Associates, designed the museum, also known as the Lowman Collection and the National Automobile Museum of the Netherlands, which houses more than 230 cars.


Product and furniture designer

In addition to his architecture, Graves became a noted designer of consumer products. His distinctive style was well known among the general public in the United States in 1980s and 1990s, when he began designing household products for major clients such as the
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, Alessi, Steuben, and
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. Over the years, the Michael Graves Design Group, a part of his design firm, designed and brought to market more than 2,000 products.Iovine, p. 94–95. In the early 1980s, Ettore Sottsass recruited Graves to become a member of Memphis, a postmodern design group based in
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,
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. Graves began designing consumer products such as furniture and home accessories. Especially notable is his "Plaza" dressing table. Around the same time, Graves became associated with Alessi, a high-end Italian kitchenware manufacturer. Graves designed a sterling silver tea service for Alessi in 1982, a turning point in his career, and he was no longer known solely as an architect. After the $25,000 tea service began to attract buyers, Alberto Alessi commissioned Graves to design a moderate-priced kettle for his company. In 1985 Graves designed his iconic a stainless-steel teakettle (9093 stovetop kettle). The kettle featured a red, bird-shaped whistle at the end of the spout. It remained the company's top-selling product for fifteen years. In honor of its thirtieth anniversary in 2015, Graves designed a special edition version with a dragon replacing the kettle's bird-shaped whistle. In Italy in 1987, clock on display ''Apollodoro Gallery'', seventh event ''The Hour of Architects'', with Hans Hollei,
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, Ettore Sottsass, Paolo Portoghesi, paintings by Paolo Salvati,
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. In 1997–98, when Graves designed the scaffolding used in the restoration of the
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in Washington D.C., he met Ron Johnson, a Target executive who appreciated his product designs. (The Target Corporation contributed $6 million toward restoration of the monument.) The result of their acquaintance was the formation of a business relationship between Graves and the U.S. retailer that lasted until 2012. Graves began the collaboration with Target by designing a half-dozen products for the mass-consumer market. His collection of housewares began selling in Target stores in January 1999. In 1998,
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commissioned Graves to design a model home to showcase the new line of housewares, but Graves went a step further. He designed "Cedar Gables," contemporary house in
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, complete with custom furniture, lighting, fixtures, and other unique items, making it only one of three homes he designed and furnished. By 2009, however, Graves noted that the house "doesn't have a wow factor. That gets old quickly." When the partnership with Target ended in 2012, Graves had designed more than 500 objects for the retailer. Increasingly concerned about Target's dwindling partnerships with outside designers, Graves decided to explore other relationships for marketing his consumer products. After Johnson became CEO of J.C. Penney in 2011, he and Graves reached an agreement for Graves to design products exclusively for Penney's. Graves also created products for other manufacturers. In the 1990s for example, Graves created the Mickey Mouse Gourmet Collection for Moeller Design with the Walt Disney Company's approval. The collection of kitchenware and tabletop items was initially sold through the Walt Disney Company's retail stores and later offered at other retail outlets. In 2013, Graves designed what became known as the “ Hitler teapot” for department store
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, which garnered controversy due to its perceived resemblance to
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. In addition to housewares, Graves was involved in a variety of other design projects that included sets and costumes for New York City's
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; a shopping bag for
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; jewelry for Cleto Munari of Milan, Italy; vinyl flooring for Tajima, a
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ese company; and rugs for Vorwerk, a
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firm. In 1994 Graves opened a small retail store named the Graves Design Store in Princeton, New Jersey, where shoppers could purchase his designs and reproductions of his artwork. At that time Graves had designed products for more than fifty manufacturers.


Later years

Graves retired as a professor of architecture at
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in 2001, but remained active in his architecture and design firm. He also became an advocate for the disabled in the last decade of his life. When Graves became paralyzed from the waist down in 2003, the result of a spinal cord infection, the use of a wheelchair heightened his awareness of the needs of the disabled. After weeks of hospitalization and physical therapy, Graves adapted his home to suit his accessibility needs and resumed his architectural and design work. See also: ''Healthcare Design'' December 2010; 10 (12):26–29. In addition to other types of buildings and household products, Graves designed wheelchairs, hospital furnishings, hospitals, and disabled veteran's housing. Graves also became a "reluctant health expert," as well as an internationally recognized advocate for accessible design. In 2013,
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appointed Graves to an administrative role in the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (also known as the Access Board). The independent agency addresses accessibility concerns for people with disabilities. In 2014, a year before his death, Graves helped to establish and plan the Michael Graves College, which includes The School of Public Architecture at
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in Union Township, New Jersey. Kean University's Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies program began in 2015; its Master of Architecture program is slated to begin in 2019. As part of gift from Graves's estate, in 2016 the university acquired The Warehouse at 44 Patton Avenue in
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, Graves's former home and studio, and two adjacent buildings. The university plans to use the facility as an educational research center for its School of Public Architecture, although its main campus and its School of Public Architecture are located about forty miles away in Union, New Jersey.


Personal life

Graves' marriage to Gail Devine in 1955 ended in divorce; his subsequent marriage to Lucy James in 1972 also ended in divorce. Graves was the father of three children, two sons and a daughter.


Death

Graves died at his home in
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, on March 12, 2015, at the age of 80, and is buried at Princeton Cemetery.


Legacy

Graves favored a "humanistic approach to architecture and urban planning" and was a major influence in late-twentieth-century architecture. Graves was among the most prolific and prominent American architects from the mid-1960s to the end of the twentieth century. Graves and his team designed more than 350 buildings in the
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,
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, and
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styles for projects around the world. His architectural designs have been recognized as major influences in all three of these movements. In naming Graves as a recipient of its national design award for lifetime achievement, the
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explained that Graves broadened "the role of the architect in society" and raised "public interest in good design as essential to the quality of everyday life." Graves and his firm designed more than 2,000 consumer products during his lifetime. He was especially noted for his domestic housewares. Many Graves-designed products were sold through mass-market U.S. retailers such as Target and J. C. Penney, but his best-known product is the iconic kettle that he designed in 1985 for Alessi, an Italian housewares manufacturer. As an advocate for the needs of the disabled, Graves used his skills as an architect and designer "to improve healthcare experience for patients, families and clinicians."


Awards and honors

* In 1979 Graves was elected a
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of the
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. * Graves served as a trustee of the
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and was the president of its Society of Fellows from 1980 to 1984. * In 1986 Graves received the Golden Plate Award of the
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. * In 1994 he was awarded the American Prize for Architecture *
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awarded Graves the
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in 1999. * Graves was voted '' GQs Man of the Year in 1999. * Graves was awarded the American Institute of Architects'
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in 2001. His career was also recognized with an AIA Presidential Citation and the Topaz Medallion from the AIA/ACSA. * Graves was the first recipient of the Michael Graves Lifetime Achievement Award from the AIA-NJ. * Graves received honorary degrees from the
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in 2001. * In 2002 the Indiana Historical Society named Graves as an Indiana Living Legend. * In 2009 Graves was named a
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Senior Fellow, one of the twelve honorees selected that year. * In 2010 Graves was inducted into the
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. * The Center for Health Design and ''Healthcare Design'' magazine recognized Graves as one of the top twenty-five "most influential people in healthcare design" in 2010. * Graves was named the Driehaus Architecture Prize in 2012. * Graves was awarded an honorary degree from
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in 2013. * From October 13, 2014, to April 5, 2015, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Graves's firm, Michael Graves Architecture and Design, the
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in Hamilton, New Jersey, held a retrospective exhibition, "Michael Graves: Past as Prologue." * On November 22, 2014, the
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held a daylong symposium in his honor at the
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. Several prominent architects such as Steven Holl and
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, as well as Graves served as guests and lecturers. * In 2015 the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum posthumously awarded Graves a National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement.


Works

* Hanselmann House,
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, 1968 * Benacerraf House,
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, 1969 * Snyderman House,
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, 1972 * Wageman House, Princeton, New Jersey, 1974 * Fargo-Moorhead Cultural Center Bridge,
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, 1977 * Plocek Residence,
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, 1977 (Graves' first postmodern design) * Roma Interrotta Exhibition,
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, Italy, 1978 * Portland Building,
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, 1982 *
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,
Louisville, Kentucky Louisville is the List of cities in Kentucky, most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast, and the list of United States cities by population, 27th-most-populous city ...
, 1982 * Newark Museum expansion,
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, 1982 * San Juan Capistrano Library,
San Juan Capistrano, California San Juan Capistrano (also known colloquially as San Juan or SJC) is a city in southern Orange County, California, United States. The population was 35,253 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 Census. Named for Saint John of Capistrano, San Ju ...
, 1982 * Riverbend Music Center,
Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ; colloquially nicknamed Cincy) is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking River (Kentucky), Licking and Ohio Ri ...
, Ohio, 1984 * Aventine Mixed Use Development,
La Jolla, California La Jolla ( , ) is a hilly, seaside neighborhood in San Diego, California, occupying of curving coastline along the Pacific Ocean. The population reported in the 2010 census was 46,781. The climate is mild, with an average daily temperature o ...
, 1985 * Crown American Building,
Johnstown, Pennsylvania Johnstown is the largest city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 18,411 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located east of Pittsburgh, it is the principal city of the Metropolitan statistical area ...
, 1986 * Team Disney headquarters building,
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, 1986 * Graves Residence ("The Warehouse"), Princeton, New Jersey, 1986 *
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Health Club,
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, Japan, 1986 * Clos Pegase Winery,
Calistoga, California Calistoga (Wappo language, Wappo: ''Nilektsonoma'') is a city in Napa County, California, United States. Located in the North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the city had a population of 5,228 as of ...
, 1987 * Bryan Hall,
University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his The Lawn, Academical Village, a World H ...
,
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, 1987 * Dolphin Resort, Walt Disney World,
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, 1987 * Swan Resort, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida, 1987 * Metropolis master plan,
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, 1988 * Tajima Office Building, Tokyo, Japan, 1988 * Disney's Hotel New York, Euro Disney Resort, now
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,
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, France, 1989 * Ten Peachtree Place,
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, Georgia, 1989 * Clark County Library and Theater,
Las Vegas Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-l ...
, Nevada, 1990 * Dairy Barn renovation, Harbourton, New Jersey, 1990 * Denver Public Library,
Denver Denver ( ) is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Consolidated city and county, consolidated city and county, the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Colorado, most populous city of the U.S. state of ...
, Colorado, 1990 *
Detroit Institute of Arts The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is a museum institution located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It has list of largest art museums, one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States. With over 100 galleries, it cove ...
master plan, Detroit, Michigan, 1990 * Fukuoka Hyatt Hotel and Office Building,
Fukuoka is the List of Japanese cities by population, sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancient times. ...
, Japan, 1990 * Kasumi Research and Training Center, Tsukaba, Japan, 1990 *
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,
University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...
, California, 1990 * Malibu House (private residence),
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, 1990 * Onjuku Town Hall, Onjuku, Japan, 1990 * Engineering Center, University of Cincinnati College of Engineering,
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, Ohio, 1990 * Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor,
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, 1990 * Arts and Sciences Building, Stockton University,
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, 1991 *
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Americas headquarters,
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, Indiana, 1992 * U.S. Courthouse renovation,
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, 1992 * Astrid Park Plaza Hotel and Business Center,
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, Belgium, 1993 * International Finance Corporation Headquarters of the World Bank,
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, 1993 *
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, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1993 * Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport,
The Hague The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c ...
, Netherlands, 1993 * Nexus Momochi Residential Tower,
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, Japan, 1993 * Archdiocesan Center,
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, 1993 * Rome Reborn Exhibition,
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, 1993 * U.S. Post Office, Celebration, Florida, 1993 * 1500 Ocean Drive,
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, 1994 * Ocean Steps Retail Center with 1500 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, Florida, 1994 * One Port Center (
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headquarters),
Camden, New Jersey Camden is a City (New Jersey), city in Camden County, New Jersey, Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan region. The city was incorporated on February 13, 1828.Snyder, John P''The Story of ...
, 1994 * Pura-Williams House, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, 1994 * Miramar Resort Hotel, El Gouna, Egypt, 1995 * Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library,
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, 1995 * The Engineering Research Center,
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,
Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ; colloquially nicknamed Cincy) is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking River (Kentucky), Licking and Ohio Ri ...
, Ohio, 1995 * Rare Books Library, American Academy, Rome, Italy, 1996 * Charles E. Beatley Jr. Central Library,
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, 1996 * House At Indian Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1996 * Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1996 * Lake Hills Country Club,
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, Korea, 1996 * Miele Americas Headquarters, Princeton, New Jersey, 1996 * O'Reilly Theater,
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, Pennsylvania, 1996 * French Institute⁄Alliance Française Library,
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, 1997 * De Luwte House,
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, Netherlands, 1997 * North Hall Residence,
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,
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, Pennsylvania, 1997 * El Gouna Golf Club, El Gouna, Egypt, 1997 * El Gouna Golf Hotel, El Gouna, Egypt, 1997 * El Gouna Golf Villas, El Gouna, Egypt, 1997 * Fortis/AG Headquarters,
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, Belgium, 1997 * Fukuoka Office Building,
Fukuoka is the List of Japanese cities by population, sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancient times. ...
, Japan, 1997 * Hyatt Hotel Taba Heights, Taba Heights, Egypt, 1997 * Intercontinental Hotel, Taba Heights, Egypt, 1997 * Laurel Hall,
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, Newark, New Jersey, 1997 * NCAA Hall of Champions and headquarters, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1997 * U.S. Courthouse, Washington, D.C., 1997 * Bristol/Savoy Towers (Ten Good City),
Fukuoka is the List of Japanese cities by population, sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancient times. ...
, Japan, 1998 * Cedar Gables House,
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, Minnesota, 1998 * Impala Building, New York City, 1998 * Castalia Building (Ministry of Public Health), The Hague, Netherlands, 1998 * Saint Martin's College Library,
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, 1998 * Master plan, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, 1999 * Laurel Hall expansion, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, 1999 *
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/Novacare Training Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1999 * Pittsburgh Cultural District Service Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1999 * Private residence, Harbourton, New Jersey, 1999 * Martel, Brown and Jones Colleges at
Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University, is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. Established in 1912, the university spans 300 acres. Rice University comp ...
,
Houston Houston ( ) is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the county seat, seat of ...
, Texas, 1999 * Singapore National Library Competition,
Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...
, 1999 * Target House Fountain,
Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Tenne ...
, 1999 *
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scaffolding, Washington, D.C., 1999 * Watch Technicum,
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, 1999 * 425 Fifth Avenue, New York City, 2000 * Capital Regional Medical Center, Tallahassee Community Hospital,
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, 2000 * Famille Tsukishima Apartment Building, Tokyo, Japan, 2000 * Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Houston Branch, Houston, Texas, 2000 * Hart Production Studios,
San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...
, California, 2000 * Newark Museum Science Gallery, Newark, New Jersey, 2000 * Perseus Office, Washington, D.C., 2000 * Private residence,
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, Switzerland, 2000 * U.S. Embassy Compound (embassy and housing), Seoul, South Korea, 2000 *
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, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2001 * Fukuoka Office Building,
Fukuoka is the List of Japanese cities by population, sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancient times. ...
, Japan, 2001 * Kasteel Holterveste, De Haverleij, Netherlands, 2001 * Mahler 4,
Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...
, Netherlands, 2001 * Michael C. Carlos Museum renovation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2001 * Three On The Bund,
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Training Center and headquarters,
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Nishinippon Institute of Technology Design School
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community master plan,
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, Egypt, 2007 *
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major renovation and expansion,
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