MICHAEL GRAVES
Michael Graves is an american architect (born July 9, 1934; Indianapolis), who belonged to the “New York Five” group: a group of five architects, whose work has been exposed for the first time at MoMA in 1976. He attended Broad Ripple High School receiving his diploma in 1952. He earned a bachelor at the University of Cincinnati and a master’s degree in architecture at Harvard. After the graduation he started to work as architect in Princeton. In 1964 he became professor at the University of Princeton and director of its own practice “ Michael Graves & Associates”, located in Princeton and New York. Graves and his firm has earned critical acclaim for a wide variety of commercial and residential building as for interior design. In fact, in 1999 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts and in 2001 the gold medal of the “American Institute of Architects”. Recently Michael Graves has developed a large number of projects, including an addition to the Detroit Institute of Arts and a large resort in Singapore ( Resorts World Sentosa).