Michael Graves h80 died yesterday in Princeton at the age of 80. He had been the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture, Emeritus and an honorary member of the Class of 1980. An obituary in the New York Times stated,
Mr. Graves was first associated with the New York Five, a group of architects who achieved cult-like stature by helping to redefine modernism in the 1970s. He went on to design projects like the headquarters of the health care company Humana in Louisville, Ky., and the Portland Municipal Building in Oregon, which exemplified postmodernism with their reliance on color and ornament and made him a celebrity.
He used his fame as a brand, designing housewares for Target while continuing to run a busy practice even as postmodernism fell out of fashion and Mr. Graves’s reputation with it.
The School of Architecture's profile of him can be found here.
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