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Michael Arad [1969-0] Israeli

Rank: 105
Architect

Michael Arad is an Israeli-American architect who is best known for being the designer of the World Trade Center Memorial. He won the competition to design the memorial in 2004.

Design, Architecture, Faith, Trust

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I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.		101
When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.	Design, Faith	102
No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface.		103
I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.	Trust	104
As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.	Architecture	105
You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.		106
When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.		107
How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?	Design	108
I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.		109
I have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years.		110
New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.		111
It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.		112
It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.		113
I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'		114
I had a dual role: designer and advocate.		115
I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.		116
I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.		117
For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.	Design	118
I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.		119
You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.		120
If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.		121
There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.		122
I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.	Design	123

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