33 Quotes by Michael Arad

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.

If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

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.

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.

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

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.

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

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