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23 quotes by Michael Arad

Original Michael Arad design board submitted in the World Trade Center Memorial Design competition 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.
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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... →

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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... →

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I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

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I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

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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.

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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.

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You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

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