Quotes by Michael Arad

Michael Arad

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.

Cities

Glasses

Imagining The Future

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.

Names

Two

Years

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

Design

People

Space

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

Believe

People

Sometimes

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.

Cry

Problem

Solve

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

Designer

Roles

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.

Cities

Navy

People

I love New York, but I’d felt like an outsider here.

I Love New York

New York

Outsiders

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.

Please

Process

Should

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.

Appreciate

Artist

Design

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Appreciate

Army

Artist

Believe

Cities

Collaboration

Country

Cry

Design

Designer

Desire

Determination

Differences

Elements

Glasses

Hatred

I Love New York

Imagining The Future

Israel

Littles

Long

Names

Navy

New York

Outsiders

People

Please

Pressure

Problem

Process

Responsibility

Roles

Should

Solve

Sometimes

Space

Thinking

Trying

Two

Views

Volunteer

Wanted

Years

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Quotes by Michael Arad

Michael Arad

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

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.

I love New York, but I’d felt like an outsider here.

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.

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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