Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.
From Michael Graves
I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
The avant garde is so narcissistic.
Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.
Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
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