Download or read book Michael Graves written by Ian Volner and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most prominent and prolific designers and architects of the late twentieth century, Michael Graves is best known for his popular product designs, including the world-famous Alessi whistling-bird teakettle, and controversial buildings, such as the Portland Building in Oregon, Humana Building in Kentucky, and Dolphin and Swan Hotels at Walt Disney World, Florida. Graves was widely seen as the leading voice of postmodernist architecture, which reintroduced human scale, color, and, sometimes, playful forms into the stark white vocabulary of modernism. Following a devastating illness that paralyzed him from the chest down, Graves became a tireless designer and advocate of improved health-care products and facilities before his sudden death in 2015. Shortly before this, he began a series of interviews with journalist Ian Volner, which form the basis of this biography of a remarkable designer. Volner also conducted numerous interviews with Graves's family, patrons, colleagues, and friends. What emerges is a meticulously researched, anecdote-rich human story, as well as a primer on the American architecture scene of the past sixty years and a portrait of a man whose deep passion for his art brought pleasure to millions.
Download or read book Michael Graves Designs written by Phil Patton and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside account of Michael Graves one-man design revolution, MICHAEL GRAVES DESIGNS offers an exclusive look at the acclaimed architect's passionate quest to make high style accessible to every shopper with eye-catching, witty, and formally beautiful objects. In his own words, Graves describes the thinking behind his uniquely American body of work.
Download or read book Michael Graves Images of a Tour written by Brian Ambroziak and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960, before his skyscrapers and teapots made him a household name, Michael Graves set out on a journey once considered obligatory for a young architect: a grand tour of the great monuments of Europe. As a recipient of the prestigious Prix de Rome, Graves traveled through Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, England, Germany, and France, studying and recording the masterworks of both ancient and modern architecture. Michael Graves: Images of A Grand Tour collects for the first time the stunning artwork produced during this trip. Delicate pencil sketches, striking ink washes, and colorful photographs show the deep connection Graves had to the places he visited, from the Roman Forum to the Grecian Acropolis to Wiltshires Stonehenge. They also tell something of the education of an architect, bringing to light the classical buildings that caused Graves to reexamine his early devotion to modernism. A foreword by Graves reflects on these travels from the distance of forty years, while author Brian Ambroziak puts the tour into the context of Graves's life and work.
Download or read book Michael Graves written by Michael Graves and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michael Graves Compact Design Portfolio written by Julie V. Iovine and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading designer of the 20th century is profiled in this book that defies the idea that design is inacessible. Contains an introductory essay addressing Michael Graves' life, plus photos of his work in color and b&w.
Download or read book Five Architects written by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Architects, originally published in 1975, grew out of a meeting of the CASE group (Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment) held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1969. The purpose of this gathering was to exhibit and criticize the work of five architects -- Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, and Meier -- who constituted a New York school, and who are now among the most influential architects working today.The buildings shown here have more diversity than one might expect from a school, but share certain properties of form, scale, and treatment of material. Collectively, their work makes a modest claim: it is only architecture, not the salvation of man and the redemption of the earth.Providing complete drawings and photographic documentation, this collection also includes a comparative critique by Kenneth Frampton, an Introduction by Colin Rowe that suggests a still broader context for the work as a whole, and two short texts in which individual positions are outlined. Now back in,print, Five Architects serves as a reference to the early work of some of America's most important architects and provides us with a glimpse back at the direction of architecture as they saw it over twenty years ago.
Download or read book 200 Years of American Architectural Drawing written by David Gebhard and published by Whitney Library of Design. This book was released on 1977 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an exhibit opening in 1977 at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and entitled: 200 years of American architectural drawing.
Download or read book Death by Design written by John Graves and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When CDC HQ is brutally attacked, Jake and Soliz crisscross the globe to find Tracker – before she exterminates humanity.
Download or read book New Hotel Design written by Otto Riewoldt and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been a remarkable evolution in the design of hotels, with mainstream hotel chains rejecting characterless functionalism in favour of style-led individualism. This book gathers together over 40 of the best examples of hotel architecture and interiors from around the world, illustrating the impressive diversity of styles and forms. Identifying the latest industry trends, Riewoldt makes plain how both chains and independents have adopted individual design strategies to enhance their brand image in an increasingly global marketplace. It featuers the work of Michael Graves, Jean Nouvel and Philippe Starck amongst other big names.
Download or read book Scaffolding Reading Experiences written by Michael F. Graves and published by Christopher-Gordon Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vocabulary Book written by Michael F. Graves and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new second edition includes two entirely new chapters on selecting vocabulary words for study and vocabulary instruction for English Language Learners. In addition, every chapter has been substantially updated to incorporate discussion of next-generation standards. Incorporating the newest research in vocabulary acquisition into the four-part model of vocabulary instruction that made the first edition a bestseller, this edition emphasizes vocabulary as an important tool in meeting the needs of increasingly diverse students K-12. It also includes new instructional approaches to teaching vocabulary that have been developed and classroom-tested since the release of the first edition.
Download or read book Golf Course Design written by Robert Muir Graves and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-07-23 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zwei der berühmtesten Golfplatzarchitekten aller Zeiten beantworten Ihnen hier jede erdenkliche Frage zum Thema der Gestaltung von Golfplätzen - von der Finanzierung über die Lage der Löcher und die Wartung des Rasens bis hin zur Entwicklung und Veränderung vorhandener Anlagen. Eine Fundgrube nicht nur für Landschaftsgestalter, sondern auch für interessierte Golfer!
Download or read book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture written by Robert Venturi and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 1977 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully.
Download or read book Michael Graves written by Eric Kudalis and published by Capstone. This book was released on 1996 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography profiling the career of Michael Graves, the modernist-trained architect whose major commissions include the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin hotels in Orlando, Florida.
Download or read book Some Place Like Home written by Toby Israel and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Architecture written by Louisa Caroline Tuthill and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michael Graves written by Michael Graves and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly forty years, Michael Graves has produced architecture with a blend of classical rigor and abstract whimsy that has consistently garnered international recognition. This, the fourth chronological volume of Michael Graves' buildings and projects documents the latest period in a career of award-winning design. With more than 100 projects illustrated by over 300 color photographs and architectural drawings by Michael Graves & Associates, this volume demonstrates Graves' enduring status as a leading American architect. Michael Graves recombines traditional architectural elements to expand and transform the language of architecture. Valuing character over style, Graves' designs maintain a sense of experimentation while respecting scale, culture and history. Michael Graves considers himself a "general practitioner" rather than a specialist in any one building type or discipline. He has widely influenced architecture, interior design and industrial design, as well as the classroom through his nearly 40-year career at Princeton University. He and his associates design not only the architecture but also the interiors and furnishings of their projects. Graves' extensive line of products for Target has made highquality design both affordable and readily available. The contemporary, contextual designs of Michael Graves can be found worldwide, from multi-use urban developments, corporate headquarters and hotels to libraries, museums, academic buildings and private residences. Projects in this volume range from the Washington Monument Restoration, which transformed the restoration project into public art, to the United States Embassy Compound in Seoul, Korea; and from the LIFE Magazine Dream House, which provided a well designed and flexible prototype for the average house, to the Miramar Resort Hotel and El Gouna Golf Hotel and Club in El Gouna, Egypt. Book jacket.
