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SUMMARY: Architect Michael Graves brought a whimsical, postmodern style to monumental buildings and even health care facilities. But he also designed practical, popular household goods, including a famous whistling teapot. To remember the architect, who died Thursday at the age of 80, Jeffrey Brown talks to Robert Ivy of the American Institute of Architects about how he left his mark.
JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour): Around the world and especially in this country, Michael Graves left his mark through buildings of color, ornament, and whimsy.
The municipal building in Portland, Oregon, the Humana Tower in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Disney Corporation’s headquarters in Burbank, California.
Yet he was known to many more for his smaller works, designing household goods like toasters, clocks and his famous whistling teakettle through a partnership with Target stores in the 1990s.
FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Michael Graves is a rare individual who finds equal wonder in things both large and small.
JEFFREY BROWN: President Clinton awarded Graves the National Medal of the Arts in 1999.
At the time, Graves had designed the scaffolding for the Washington Monument’s renovation.
He spoke to Margaret Warner about that project and his broader interests.
MICHAEL GRAVES: I have never thought that architecture is limited to, you know, making just buildings. We came through a time in the 1950s where architects became specialists. They were going to only do museums or only do, let’s say, office buildings.
But small things, as well as large things, interest me a whole lot. And I don’t see why to — why I should stop at the moment we reach the door.
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