Michael Graves
(* 1934)
American architect, one of the New York Five, a group of five New York City architects (Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk and Richard Meier) whose
photographed work was the subject of a CASE (Committee of Architects for the Study of the Environment) meeting at the Museum of Modern Art, organized by Arthur Drexler and
Colin Rowe in 1969, and featured in the subsequent book Five Architects, published by Wittenborn in 1972, then more famously by Oxford Press in 1975.
project list
2004 | RIVERWALK 2, NISHINIPPON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DESIGN SCHOOL, Kitakyushu |
2001 | FUKUOKA OFFICE BUILDING, Fukuoka |
2000 | FAMILLE TSUKISHIMA APARTMENT BUILDING, Tokyo |
1998 | BRISTOL/SAVOY TOWERS (TEN GOOD CITY), Fukuoka |
1997 | FUKUOKA OFFICE BUILDING, Fukuoka |
1993 | NEXUS MOMOCHI RESIDENTIAL TOWER, Fukuoka |
1992 | ARTE YOKOHAMA, Yokohama city, Kanagawa |
1991 | NTT HEADQUARTERS, Tokyo |
1990 |
FUKUOKA HYATT HOTEL AND OFFICE BUILDING, Fukuoka KASUMI RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE, Tsukaba ONJUKU TOWN HALL, Onjuku |
1988 | TAJIMA OFFICE BUILDING, Tokyo |
1986 | SHIISEIDO HEALTH CLUB, Tokyo |
quotes about Michael Graves
"One year later, a very interesting meeting occurred between Japanese and Western architects in a Japanese temple. The Western architects consisted of a handful of deconstructivists – and
Michael Graves. Unfortunately, the talk was about chaos. It was obvious that most of the Western architects were interested in chaos, and that their work was partly based on chaos. But
these Westerners were then confronted with the Japanese, who were in a very chauvinistic and proud mood, and who for once were not worried about imitation; they boasted that Japan has real chaos,
while in the West it is only a simulation. And it became clear that in their work chaos had already become a style, a theme. Then Michael Graves made his presentation, consisting of many Michael
Graves projects in Japan. He talked about humanism, order, and the public realm. The paradox is that Michael Graves may have had more projects built in Japan than any of the Japanese architects
in the room. And what this may mean is that the Japanese client does not like chaos. Maybe Japanese clients want humanism, and that is why they go to foreign architects. Maybe Japanese clients do
not like the chaos of the Japanese city and instead want to have order. Maybe, in spite of what Western intellectuals like in Japan, Japanese mayors want streets geared toward pedestrians. Maybe
there is an incredible gulf between what we consider the real Japan and the true ambitions of Japanese culture." (Rem Koolhaas)
1992
ARTE YOKOHAMA
アルテ横浜 - Arute Yokohama
+ Housing and Urban Development Corporation (now Urban Renaissance Agency)
address: | 1-8 Onocho, Kanagawa ward, Yokohama city, Kanagawa |
Japanese: | 神奈川県横浜市神奈川区大野町1-8 |
total floor area: | 28,146 m² |
designers: | Michael Graves (schematic design) + Housing and Urban Development Corporation (now Urban Renaissance Agency) (basic design) + Kajima Corporation (implementation design) |
sources: | [The Architectural Map of Yokohama & Kamakura] page 62 |
further readings
www.archi-guide.com/AR/graves.htm
www.japan-photo.de/e-mo-a30.htm
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic34807.files/9-6_Koolhaas.doc