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Michael Graves

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

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"If I have a style, I am not aware of it."
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"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function."
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"The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth."
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