Michael Graves net worth
Michael Graves Net Worth: Michael Graves is an American architect who has a net worth of $10 million. Graves is known to be one of the New York quintet of architects who left a permanent mark on his contemporary architectural designs and some notable public commissions. But after he started designing domestic products for sale at Target stores in the US, he began to enjoy more commercial hype.
Born on July 9, 1934, in Indianapolis, Indiana, he earned a BA in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati and an MA in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Graves, though a devout student, was also a laureate of the Grand Prix of Rome, which allowed him to study the language of architecture in Rome for two years. He then accepted a teaching position at Princeton University and later became a visiting professor at several prestigious universities. During this period, he also published several books on his teachings and works, such as The Swedish Connection, The Necessity of Painting: Tangible Speculation, and Le Corbusier’s Drawing Reference. Graves rose to prominence after joining the New York Five, a group of five New York City architects whose designs were recommended by the Council of Architects for Environmental Studies (CASE) at the Museum of Modern Art in 1969. Michael Graves adopted postmodernism in his architectural designs, some 150 in all. His most famous projects include the Humana Building in Louisville, Euro Disney Resort in France, the Nexus Momochi residential building in Japan and Resorts World in Singapore. In addition, he designed consumer products sold exclusively by Target Corporation and later by JC Penney. He became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1979 and is a Fellow of the Design Futures Council. For his extensive work he was awarded the National Medal of Art in 1999, the AIA Gold Medal in 2001, the AIA Topaz Medal in 2010 and the Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture in 2012.
Additionally, he was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2010. Since 2003, he has been paralyzed by some unknown bacteria. However, he continues to develop designs and remains active in the practice of consumer and structural design for the benefit of humanity.
