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Michael Graves

1934 - 2015

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Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect, designer, and educator, and principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. He was a member of The New York Five and the Memphis Group and a professor of architecture at Princeton University for nearly forty years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Graves has received more than 671,354 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Michael Graves is the 323rd most popular architect (down from 267th in 2019), the 4,403rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,500th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Architect.

Memorability Metrics

  • 670k

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  • 51.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Michael Graves ranks 323 out of 518. Before him are Edwin Lutyens, Carl Humann, Steven Holl, Mammad Hasan Hajinski, Yvonne Farrell, and B. V. Doshi. After him are Marcello Piacentini, Gordon Bunshaft, Louis Visconti, Heinrich Tessenow, José Benito de Churriguera, and Anca Petrescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Michael Graves ranks 238. Before him are Frank País, Sven Wollter, Paco Ibáñez, Russ Tamblyn, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, and Mahbub ul Haq. After him are Ružica Sokić, Shirley Horn, Francesco Monterisi, Stefan Abadzhiev, Julio Jiménez, and Robert D. Hare. Among people deceased in 2015, Michael Graves ranks 186. Before him are Gottfried Diener, Movita Castaneda, Søren Kam, Evelyn Furtsch, Hans Erni, and Clark Terry. After him are Jeralean Talley, Jacques Sernas, Jon Vickers, Gerald Götting, Ahmed Chalabi, and Patachou.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Graves ranks 4,403 out of 20,380. Before him are Mickey Mantle (1931), Dorothy Arzner (1897), Jimmy Buffett (1946), Norman Lloyd (1914), Cuba Gooding Jr. (1968), and Walter Tewksbury (1876). After him are Lenny Montana (1926), Carol Lynley (1942), Franklin Clarence Mars (1883), Jeralean Talley (1899), Teddy Wilson (1912), and Patrick O'Neal (1927).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Michael Graves ranks 19. Before him are Cedric Gibbons (1893), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), Sixto Durán Ballén (1921), Charles Jencks (1939), Thom Mayne (1944), and Steven Holl (1947). After him are Gordon Bunshaft (1909), Frederick Law Olmsted (1822), Daniel Burnham (1846), Walter Burley Griffin (1876), John Hejduk (1929), and Robert Moses (1888).

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