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Michael Graves

1934 - 2015

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Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect, designer, and educator, and principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. He was a member of The New York Five and the Memphis Group and a professor of architecture at Princeton University for nearly forty years. Following his own partial paralysis in 2003, Graves became an internationally recognized advocate of health care design. Graves' global portfolio of architectural work ranged from the Ministry of Culture in The Hague, a post office for Celebration, Florida, a prominent expansion of the Denver Public Library to numerous commissions for Disney and the scaffolding design for the 2000 Washington Monument restoration. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Graves is the 340th most popular architect (down from 323rd in 2019), the 5,459th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,403rd in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Michael Graves ranks 340 out of 518. Before him are Christoph Dientzenhofer, Bruno Zevi, Joseph Bové, Dominique Perrault, Willem Marinus Dudok, and Girolamo Cassar. After him are Francesco Sabatini, Vannoccio Biringuccio, Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles Jencks, Diébédo Francis Kéré, and Lipót Baumhorn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Michael Graves ranks 272. Before him are Russ Tamblyn, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Aleksei Yeliseyev, Alois Mock, Richard Swinburne, and Akira Takarada. After him are Miroslav Ondříček, Marilyn Horne, Seraphim Rose, Sven Wollter, Enrique Mateos, and Fayza Ahmed. Among people deceased in 2015, Michael Graves ranks 224. Before him are Hot Rod Hundley, Ninón Sevilla, Xu Caihou, Walter Burkert, Charb, and Moira Orfei. After him are Fred Thompson, Jean-Claude Turcotte, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Robert Manzon, Miroslav Ondříček, and Beau Biden.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Graves ranks 5,459 out of 20,380. Before him are Murray Leinster (1896), David Geffen (1943), Andrew Robinson (1942), Jane Adams (1965), Carmen McRae (1922), and Mike Todd (1909). After him are Charles Horton Peck (1833), Barnum Brown (1873), Fred Thompson (1942), Brock Lesnar (1977), Roger Marshall (1960), and Sylvanus Morley (1883).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Michael Graves ranks 19. Before him are Sixto Durán Ballén (1921), Gordon Bunshaft (1909), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), Cedric Gibbons (1893), Steven Holl (1947), and Thom Mayne (1944). After him are Frederick Law Olmsted (1822), Charles Jencks (1939), Daniel Burnham (1846), Walter Burley Griffin (1876), John Hejduk (1929), and Julia Morgan (1872).

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