Architect Michael Graves brought good design to the masses ... Mr. Graves was one of the postmodern architects who reintroduced color, whimsy and decoration to building design.

TRENTON, N.J. | Celebrated architect Michael Graves, who created whimsical postmodern structures and later became well known to the masses for designing products for people with disabilities and ...

Most architects would be satisfied to be remembered as the standard-bearer of a new style. In the case of Michael Graves (1934-2015), that style was Postmodernism, which he introduced to the world ...

Team Disney Building, USA, 1986, by Michael Graves "For many critics, this was when postmodernism went too far, when supposedly serious architects like Michael Graves and Arata Isozaki began doing ...

The controversial Portland Building by Michael Graves, 1982 Not all Postmodern architecture has stood the test of time (literally – Graves' Portland Building, built on the cheap, is in terrible ...

A teakettle, rather than a building, turned Michael Graves into ... house plan for Life magazine's master architect series in the 1990s. But his animated postmodern design did not sell as well ...

Postmodernism proclaimed the death of modernism and promoted a new, nonlinear way of approaching architecture and design, spearheaded by Michael Graves, Robert Venturi, Ettore Sottsass, and Alessandro ...

But back in 1999, when Michael Graves, the esteemed postmodern architect and Alessi frontman, released a line with Target — it was a revelation. Excluding a disappointing Neiman Marcus line ...

(CNN) -- Michael Graves, the versatile architect who also designs practical, whimsical kitchenware, will receive the 2001 Gold Medal for an individual from the American Institute of Architects.

When Postmodern Architecture first rose to prominence at the ... The significant names include the American cadre headed up by Michael Graves, Robert Stern, and Venturi Scott Brown, but there also ...

Postmodernism proclaimed the death of modernism and promoted a new, nonlinear way of approaching architecture and design, spearheaded by Michael Graves, Robert Venturi, Ettore Sottsass, and Alessandro ...