Michael Graves Architecture Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

Architecture only does part of the work. How you fill the space matters just as much, sometimes more. I designed a beach house with a continuous living/dining area, but it had to have a table in the middle to give it a visual rhythm. Every room has a foreground and a background. But you also need a middle ground - like that table - to go between.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

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