Michael Graves has become a reference point for architecture and design - in fact, he is without doubt one of the world's great designers. This reprint testifies to the ongoing influence of his work.
The book features office and mixed-use space; hotels, recreation and commercial; cultural and civic; universities; residential; and a firm profile and a chronological list of buildings, projects and competitions.
Graves has taken large-scale building design out of a tired pattern of late Modernism, and recharged it with colour, figure, pattern, and a sense of formal play that has made his buildings more recognisable from a distance, and more accessible to the individual, all the while furthering his own development as an artist.
Graves is synonymous with the sophisticated elegance of Italian design house Alessi, not to mention his other ranges for Baldinger, Duravit, Valli & Valli and Steuben