Michael Graves [09.07.1934 > 12.03.2015] was AIA Gold Medalist and was founding principal of Michael Graves Architecture & Design (MGA&D), well known throughout the world. He wass the 2012 Richard H. Driehaus Prize Laureate and the recipient 2001 American Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal, the highest award bestowed upon an individual by this professional society. He was also the recipient of the 1999 National Medal of Arts and the 2010 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion honoring his commitment to architectural education. Critic Paul Goldberger wrote in The New York Times that “Graves is truly the most original voice American architecture has produced in some time.” Michael Graves was the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture, Emeritus at Princeton University, where he taught for nearly 40 years.
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