Israeli - Architect | 1969 -
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
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.
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You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.
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If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.
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There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.
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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.
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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.
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