The Portland Building, by architect and product designer Michael Graves, is considered the first major built work of Postmodernist architecture. The design, which displays numerous symbolic ...

Michael Graves was 80 years old. Graves is best known in Oregon as the designer of The Portland Building. MORE: Michael Graves, who died Thursday, said Portland should 'take care' of his ...

Michael Graves played a prominent role ... Many of the most outspoken advocates for saving the Portland Building have been young designers. Architecture today is as eclectic, as devoid of ...

Michael Graves ... died on Thursday at the age of 80. Mr. Graves helped usher in an age of postmodernism in architecture, injecting flare, funk and ornamentation into buildings across the U.S ...

The Portland Building, located in the downtown of its eponymous city, is hard to ignore. Designed by Michael Graves Architecture (MGA) and completed in 1982, the tower is something of a monument ...

Patrick Burke, a principal of Michael Graves Architecture & Design ... are most efficient for repetitive cladding systems. The Portland Building had different details, colors and ornaments.

So, while the debate on color in architecture is far from ... has begun on the dismantling of the facade of Michael Graves’ iconic Portland Building, part of a $195 million project that could ...

TRENTON, N.J. — Celebrated architect Michael Graves, who created whimsical ... But his most famous may be The Portland Building, the city administrative building in Portland, and The Humana ...

But one of his most recent projects holds a particular significance, a building that ... I studied Michael Graves in school when I was learning architecture 30 years ago. So this is a very ...

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