Michael Graves was born in 1934 and is an American architect who participated in a famous architectural exhibition in 1972, gaining him a status as one of 'The New York Five' along with Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk and Richard Meier. He is a pioneer of architectural modernism and is greatly inspired by the work of Le Corbusier. His work did receive a lot of harsh critique, notably by a group of essayists who called themselves 'the greys' and claimed to be attacking the modernist architects whom they called 'the whites'. They refused the aesthetic of the modernist style and said that it created buildings that only provoked feelings of 'indifference' amongst their onlookers. Graves did, however remain faithful to the Corsbusian style and even today he stays active in his work, despite being paralysed from the waist down after contracting Meningitis.
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