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Not many architects can claim to have spearheaded a major design movement. Michael Graves played a prominent role in three.
Graves, who died Thursday at 80 of natural causes at his home in Princeton, N.J., was a pioneering figure in postmodernism in the 1980s and '90s. He added historical ornament and bright color to prominent and often controversial buildings like the Portland municipal building in Oregon, the Denver Central Library, the 26-story Humana tower in Louisville, Ky., and the Disney Studios in Burbank.
As a product designer, creating chess sets, stainless-steel colanders and dustpans for Target and tea kettles for Alessi, Graves brought high-design housewares to a broad public, paving the way for the later success of Design Within Reach and Ikea and arguably setting the stage for the ascendance of new stars like Apple's in-house design guru Jonathan Ive.
Late in life, after complications from a sinus infection left him in a wheelchair, Graves became a leading voice calling for reform in healthcare design, arguing that hospitals and medical products were not just thoughtlessly made but often soul-sapping for patients.
If there was a thread connecting that disparate work, it was a deeply felt populism, a philosophy embodied in the slogan Target attached to his products: "Good design should be affordable to all."
His architecture, similarly, represented an effort to bring back all the crowd-pleasing details columns, gables, gargoyles that dour modernist architects, with their emphasis on flat roofs and functionalist dogma, had banished. Though many of his buildings had a limited, scenographic quality more effective as eye-catching billboards for innovative design ideas than as built space and haven't aged well, they were always full of vitality and humor.
Graves was born in Indianapolis on July 9, 1934. After earning a degree in architecture from the University of Cincinnati in 1958, he enrolled at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, a place very much still in thrall to the ideals of strict modernism. After finishing at Harvard and spending two years at the American Academy in Rome, Graves settled in New Jersey, joining the Princeton University faculty, where he would spend his entire teaching career, and opening his own practice.
Early on, Graves' architecture reflected the influence of his time at Harvard. He was a member (with Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey and John Hejduk) of the so-called New York Five, a collection of young architects who produced abstract designs reminiscent of the French modernist Le Corbusier.
But the group was always a loose-knit one philosophically; they first came together almost by chance, having been invited by Museum of Modern Art curator Arthur Drexler to meet in 1969 to discuss their work and contemporary design. The 1972 book "Five Architects" nearly cemented their reputation as a coherent group.
But only nearly. And it was Graves who broke from the pack and proved how flexible its bonds had always been by beginning to look to history and ornament as sources of explicit inspiration. In fact an important early project, the 1972 Snyderman House in Fort Wayne, Ind., was completed the same year "Five Architects" was published, while undermining some of its modernist principles.
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Growing cities around the world have nowhere to go but up, leadingto taller and taller buildings. But while mega-skyscrapers are the most efficient wayto build new homes,they also cast long shadows, drawing the ire of people living and working below. One solution: a pair of buildings that work together,reflecting sunlight to minimize shade.
About 250 skyscrapers are slated to redraw Londons skyline in the near futureeach with its own darkimprint on the streets below. So architects at the firm NBBJ in London decidedto see if they could come up with an entirely shadowless building. They used computer modeling to design a pair of buildings, one of which works like a gigantic, curved mirror. The glass surface of the northernmost building reflects light down into the shadow cast by itssouthern partner. And the carefully defined curve of that glass allows the reflected light to follow the shadow throughout the day. Note that the reflected light is diffusenot a focused death ray that could fry an egg or burn tourists. The relationship between the sun and shadow is the relationship between the two buildings, says Christian Coop, NBBJsdesign director.
To come up with that shape, the architects entered various building requirementslike footprints for office and living spaceinto design software called Rhinoceros. Then they told the program togeneratedesigns that maximize the light reflected onto the ground. The computer tests out every possible shape and spits back the best ones. Some are bonkers, Coop says, so to get a more practical design, the architects have to adjust the requirementslike more space on the lower levels. Then they run the program again. After several iterations, they finally gota shape they liked. Its a bit like working with clay, Coop says. The final design, with a thin base expanding as it climbs, reduces shade by up to 60 percent.
The architects designed this particular concept as a potential pair of towers in Greenwich, England, right on the Prime Meridian. But Coop points out that the software can be used to build any skyscraper anywhere. All you need to do is change the inputs: when and where the sun passes overhead at your location. The approach could be helpful inplaces like New York, where residents have resisted the construction of several new skyscrapers that they say will plunge Central Park into shadow. And itll be useful in developing countries like China and India, where new skyscrapers are going up at a rapid pace. More skyscrapers is something of an inevitability, says Daniel Safarik, a spokesperson at the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Were not going back to an agrarian lifestyle.
Although the idea of reflecting sunlight to brighten up shadows isnt new (its even been used to light up an entire town), more of thesekinds of designs are still needed. Sydneys One Central Park has moveable mirrors that reflect light onto shaded areas below or block the sun during the hot summer. And in November, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitatnamed the 363-foot high structure the best tall building in the world. Its definitely high time for this type of design to be baked into the building so it can play well with the environment, Safarik says. It should be standard practice. Maybe soon, everytall building will brighten up your day.
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Not many architects can claim to have spearheaded a major design movement. Michael Graves played a prominent role in three.
Graves, who died Thursday at 80 of natural causes at his home in Princeton, N.J., was a pioneering figure in postmodernism in the 1980s and 90s. He added historical ornament and bright color to prominent and often controversial buildings like the Portland municipal building in Oregon, the Denver Central Library, the 26-story Humana tower in Louisville, Ky., and the Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif.
As a product designer, creating chess sets, stainless-steel colanders and dustpans for Target and tea kettles for Alessi, Graves brought high-design housewares to a broad public, paving the way for the later success of Design Within Reach and Ikea and arguably setting the stage for the ascendance of new stars like Apples in-house design guru Jonathan Ive.
Late in life, after complications from a sinus infection left him in a wheelchair, Graves became a leading voice calling for reform in health care design, arguing that hospitals and medical products were not just thoughtlessly made but often soul-sapping for patients.
If there was a thread connecting that disparate work, it was a deeply felt populism, a philosophy embodied in the slogan Target attached to his products: Good design should be affordable to all.
His architecture, similarly, represented an effort to bring back all the crowd-pleasing details columns, gables, gargoyles that dour modernist architects, with their emphasis on flat roofs and functionalist dogma, had banished. Though many of his buildings had a limited, scenographic quality more effective as eye-catching billboards for innovative design ideas than as built space and havent aged well, they were always full of vitality and humor.
Graves was born in Indianapolis on July 9, 1934. After earning a degree in architecture from the University of Cincinnati in 1958, he enrolled at Harvards Graduate School of Design, a place very much still in thrall to the ideals of strict modernism. After finishing at Harvard and spending two years at the American Academy in Rome, Graves settled in New Jersey, joining the Princeton University faculty, where he would spend his entire teaching career, and opening his own practice.
Early on, Graves architecture reflected the influence of his time at Harvard. He was a member (with Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey and John Hejduk) of the so-called New York Five, a collection of young architects who produced abstract designs reminiscent of the French modernist Le Corbusier.
But the group was always a loose-knit one philosophically; they first came together almost by chance, having been invited by Museum of Modern Art curator Arthur Drexler to meet in 1969 to discuss their work and contemporary design. The 1972 book Five Architects nearly cemented their reputation as a coherent group.
But only nearly. And it was Graves who broke from the pack and proved how flexible its bonds had always been by beginning to look to history and ornament as sources of explicit inspiration. In fact an important early project, the 1972 Snyderman House in Fort Wayne, Ind., was completed the same year Five Architects was published, while undermining some of its modernist principles.
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Gao Architects Creates Colorful Tiny 484 Sq.Ft. Apartment
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Architect Michael Graves brought good design to the masses with his product line for Target, helped lead the postmodernist revolt against steel-and-glass boxes, and designed products for disabled people after a spinal cord infection left him in a wheelchair.
Mr. Graves, 80, a winner of the American Institute of Architects' Gold Medal, the highest honor the organization bestows upon an individual, died of natural causes Thursday, March 12, in his hometown of Princeton, N.J., a spokeswoman told The Associated Press.
In the 1980s, reacting to the strictures of sober postwar modernism, Mr. Graves was one of the postmodern architects who reintroduced color, whimsy and decoration to building design. He did so in commissions ranging from a still-controversial municipal office building in Portland, Ore., to an earth-toned Disney hotel festooned with giant sculptures of swans in Florida.
What really put Mr. Graves on the pop culture map was his angular stainless steel teakettle for Alessi, which quickly became a best-seller after its 1985 debut. He scored big again with his 1999 product line for Minneapolis-based Target, which came to encompass more than 2,000 products, including the "Spinning Whistle Teakettle," a simpler and less expensive version of the legendary Alessi teapot.
Through such work, the architect achieved the dream of the German Bauhaus modernists of the early 20th century, spreading the gospel of good design to people of modest means.
"He was the one who popularized it," Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman said Thursday of postmodern design. "He was immensely talented."
Born in Indianapolis, Mr. Graves first achieved notoriety in the 1970s as a member of the "New York Five," a group of architects influenced by the white, modernist buildings of the Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier.
He remained a relatively obscure Princeton University professor until 1980, when he won a design competition for the Portland municipal office building. The squat, midrise structure opened in 1982 with a full complement of decoration, from ersatz ribbons to a large sculpture of the female figure Portlandia.
Critics of a modernist bent derided the design as mere packaging. But the barbs did not stop Mr. Graves from winning other high-profile commissions, such as the Humana corporate headquarters in Louisville, Ky., and a proposed addition to New York's Whitney Museum of Art that was never built.
Mr. Graves got a career-changing break in the late 1990s when Target commissioned him to design scaffolding for the restoration of the Washington Monument.
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Daybreak - Architects | Drum Cover - Jasmin Ulrich
"Now shed this skin and let change begin" This is one of my first attempts in recording, mixing and editing such an video. I made some major mistakes, but anyways... I had no idea what I was doing.
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CIMA Architects CEO John Alday on CIMA #39;s On-premises and Off-premises Infrastructure Solutions
Kevin Aires, IBM Visual Media Services, interviews John Alday, chief executive officer, CIMA Solutions Group. Cima Solutions Group is a Cloud Services Broker...
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