Michael Graves: Health Care Design

In the latter half of Michael Graves career he began focusing a lot of his attention on producing health care facilities and assisted living homes that were centered around the needs of the humans in them. Michael really began to focus on these designs due to his own health crisis where a simple sinus infection would leave him paralyzed from the chest down. During his time in the hospital Michael noticed the inefficiency of the hospitals from furniture and equipment to the actual building design. Toward the end of his life Michael had partnered with Stryker to create better furnishings for hospitals, designed hospitals and assisted living homes that all focused on the humans that would be living and working in them. Michael even had a TED talk on the subject of the future of hospital design that was really interesting.

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