Quotes by Michael Arad - Page 1

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.
Michael Arad / Architect
Designer
Roles
Advocate
Dual
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I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.
Michael Arad / Architect
New York
I Love New York
Outsiders
Outsider
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You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.
Michael Arad / Architect
Push
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It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.
Michael Arad / Architect
Magical
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You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.
Michael Arad / Architect
Always Back Never
Push
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How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?
Michael Arad / Architect
Design
Space
Contemplative
People
Quiet
Space People Feel
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I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.
Michael Arad / Architect
Believe
Decent
People
Sometimes
Believe People Sometimes
Believe I Believe People
Fundamentally
Misbehave
Yes
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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.
Michael Arad / Architect
New York
Israel
Wanted
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There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.
Michael Arad / Architect
Collaboration
Differences
Elements
Landscape
Lighting
Theater
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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.
Michael Arad / Architect
Desire
Site
Thinking
Trying
Aroused
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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.
Michael Arad / Architect
Abuse
Cry
Problem
Series
Solve
Supporters
Wolf
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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.
Michael Arad / Architect
Littles
Long
Urgency
Views
Accompanied
Measured
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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.
Michael Arad / Architect
Every Step
Stupid
No Choice
Proposed
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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 design.
Michael Arad / Architect
Design
Construction
Names
Two
Years
Arrangement
Fund-Raising
Talked
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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 a matte surface.
Michael Arad / Architect
Bronze
Rendering
Simulate
Surface
Angles
Mirror
Panel
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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.
Michael Arad / Architect
Design
Appreciate
Artist
Work Me I Can
Work Design Me
Bothers
Fits
Suggest
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PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.
Michael Arad / Architect
Determination
Hatred
People
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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 engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.
Michael Arad / Architect
Please
Process
Should
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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 engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'
Michael Arad / Architect
Please
Work Me Process
Budget
Civil
Mechanical
Preliminary
Structural
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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 won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.
Michael Arad / Architect
Brooklyn
Cities
Hearing
Navy
People
Standing
Backs
Turning
Facing
Leaves
Rustle
Yard
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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 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.
Michael Arad / Architect
Architecture
Aspect
Cities
Glasses
Imagining The Future
Involved
Type
Architects
Imagining
Intrigues
Places
Relationships
Structures
Types
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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 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.
Michael Arad / Architect
Army
Attrition
People
Rate
Volunteer
Fairly
Great People Never
Category
Fell
Never Stop
Served
Stayed
Unit
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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 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.
Michael Arad / Architect
Design
Architect
Form
Leap
Leap Of Faith
Accept
Apprehensive
Compromising
Project
Initially
Intent
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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.
Michael Arad / Architect
New York
Country
Defined
Responsibility
September
Understood
Everywhere
Event
So Many People
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