“I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an ar...” — Michael Graves Quote

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

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.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.