Growing up in New Mexico, Graves is familiar with Southwestern life, including horseback riding, hunting, fishing, camping, western dancing, etc. His nearly 40-year history in the theatre in New York and California includes Shakespeare, Broadway, Off Broadway, Regional, Daytime Drama . . He is married to Jennifer Lee Graves, and has a son, Phillip Coquet and a daughter, Rebecca Graves, as well as a grandson, Jimmy Buster Schoenkopf.
Architect.
Inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2010.
He studied architecture at the University of Cincinnati and Harvard University. In 1962, he began a 40-year teaching career at Princeton.
He was a prominent architect who designed more than 350 buildings around the world, but was perhaps best known for his teakettle and pepper mill. He designed more than 2,000 everyday consumer products for companies like Target, Steuben, and Disney.
Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.
In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.
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.
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.
The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.
I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.
The cost is minimal, but one of the things that you want in a universal design is to make the plan as open as you can. . . and to still have walls around bedrooms and that sort of thing, and to keep the corridors wide enough so the wheelchair can do a 360 in the corridor.
