Michael Graves, born on July 9, 1934. Michael graves had attended the college of design at the University of Cincinnati. Graves obtained his bachelor's degree in 1958, he then had attended Harvard for a year and left with his masters degree in architecture. In 1960, Graves had won the American Academy in Rome’s Rome Prize, this allowed him to study ancient structures in Rome for 2 years. After his 2 years in Rome, he later became a professor at Princeton University’s School of Architecture. Outside of teaching Graves, active modernist architect consequently the structures he had designed went with the movement. But Graves would not stick with the modernistic movement for long he had left modernistic, however he began creating buildings with more of a post modernist style. Postmodernism is a step forward in the direction of looking at architecture and calling it art. Postmodernism had left behind the styles borrowed from the classic structures in Rome. In 2003 Graves had suffered a spinal cord infection Which left him paralyzed from the waist down. Graves then had incorporated certain things in his designs for the disabled. Graves had been awarded the National Medal of Arts, the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, and the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. Graves had passed away on March 12, 2015 at the age of 80. Graves not only left a legacy …show more content…
On being the modernistic era and the other being the postmodern era. The modern era had borrowed ideas from classic ideas found in ancient Rome where he had studied. The postmodernist era had been looked upon by many as an architectural era that took a step in the right direction in making architecture being looked upon as an art. Graves had designed the “Portland Building” which considers postmodern architecture. His design borrows elements from the past in addition reintroduce some elements such as color and symbolism back into