[Near the end of his presentation he arrived at a slide entitled “How I Became the Reluctant Health Care Expert.” “I’ll race through this part,” he said. When he became a paraplegic, he said he struggled firsthand with the architectural failings of hospital rooms. He flipped through slides that illustrated the inefficiency of design and the degrading consequences. “I said to myself, ‘Michael, you’re an architect, a designer, and a patient — and you’re pissed off. And you can make these things better,’” Graves said. His innovations include a chair designed for those with difficulties sitting and standing — inspired by a recovering stroke victim Graves had seen trying to seat himself in a restaurant....“He values scale, proportion, good material, sustainability, all with consideration for citizens with disabilities,” Neumann said. “In many ways, he’s the ideal architect.”] browndailyherald/2013/03/04/architect-reflects-on-design-influences-experiences/
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