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Michael Arad
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.
Early life and education
Arad, an Israeli citizen, was born in 1969 in London. London was where his father, Moshe Arad, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States and Mexico, was on a diplomatic mission. Arad lived in Jerusalem for nine years. He did his military service in a Golani Brigade commando unit.
Arad received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, and a master's degree from Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Architecture.
Career
He moved to New York City in 1999 and worked as an architect at Kohn Pedersen Fox for three years. After KPF, Arad briefly worked for Leclere Associate Architects. When he submitted his design to the competition for the World Trade Center memorial, he was working for the New York City Housing Authority, designing police stations for the New York City Police Department. Arad now works for Handel Architects, which has offices in New York and San Francisco.
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"I will do my best to rise to the enormity of the task at hand. It is with great humility that I regard the challenges that lie ahead -- and it is with great hope that I will find the strength and ability to meet them,"
"This design proposes a space that resonates with the feelings of loss and absence that were generated by the death and destruction at the World Trade Center,"
"It encloses the site and shelters it from the highway,"
"I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave."
"You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you."
"You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you."
"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."
"I had a dual role: designer and advocate."
"How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?"
"If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York."
"I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here."
"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 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 think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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Making Absence Visible: Michael Arad at TEDxWallStreet
See more at: http://tedxwallstreet.com/ Michael Arad's design for the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site, titled "Reflecting Absence," was selected by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation from among more than 5,000 entries submitted in an international competition held in 2003. Mr. Arad joined the New York firm of Handel Architects as a Partner in April 2004 where he worked on realizing the Memorial design as a member of the firm. In 2013 his work on the Memorial was recognized with Honor Awards from the AIA and ASLA. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and con...
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Michael Arad Interview | The National 9/11 Memorial
Architect Michael Arad, who designed the 9/11 Memorial, discusses in this touching interview the evolution of his memorial design, as well as the relationship between memory and architecture. The National 9/11 Memorial is an eight acre plaza set within the dense urban fabric of Lower Manhattan, where the former World Trade Center Twin Towers once stood. The Memorial Plaza is an integral part of the sixteen acre redeveloped World Trade Center Complex, and it reaches and connects the site to the city beyond. It is an open and welcoming design that is meant to foster the democratic values of public assembly that played such a pivotal role in New York City’s collective response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. The Memorial Plaza forms an eight acre clearing in the middle of the city ...
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A Conversation with Michael Arad '91
Michael Arad '91, designer of Reflecting Absence, World Trade Center Site Memorial, speaks with Dartmouth College Director of Media Relations Justin Anderson about what the design means to him and how his experience at Dartmouth helped prepare him for the eight-year-long process of building the memorial.
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Michael Arad, 9/11 Memorial
Georgia Tech architecture alumnus Michael Arad designed the 9/11 Memorial in remembrance of those killed in the attacks on September 11, 2001. In this excerpt from a lecture Arad gave at Georgia Tech in 2012, he explains his thought process behind his design of the 9/11 Memorial, "Reflecting Absence." Read the full feature story: http://www.news.gatech.edu/features/9-11-memorial. Learn more about Georgia Tech: http://www.gatech.edu
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Michael Arad unveils Emanuel Nine Memorial to commemorate Charleston church shooting
Michael Arad, the architect behind New York's 9/11 Memorial, has revealed plans for a monument dedicated to the victims of a shooting massacre that took place at Charleston's Mother Emanuel AME Church. The Emanuel Nine Memorial will recognise those who were killed and wounded in the racially motivated Charleston church shooting on 17 June 2015. White supremacist Dylann Roof opened fire during an evening service, murdering nine African American attendees and injuring five. Located on the church grounds, Arad's monument will comprise two long benches facing each other across a courtyard, with a low-level marble fountain in between. Water will emerge from a cross-shaped opening in the dipped basin and eventually spill over its sides, where the names of the nine victims will be inscribed. T...
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How do we remember? Michael Arad
Michael Arad, designer of the World Trade Center Memorial, New York "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," said Handel Architects Partner and World Trade Center Memorial designer Michael Arad of witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Center. Four days after the opening of the memorial to that event, Arad will give an account of the long and sometimes-contentious road to its creation, and discuss how this new space of remembrance interacts with other elements of the 16-acre Ground Zero site: four towers, a public plaza, complex transportation infrastructure, and an underground museum. Find out more at #wood91411
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Studio 360: 9/11 Memorial Tour With Architect Michael Arad
Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen and architect Michael Arad visit the new 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan and talk about what inspired Arad's design.
published: 08 Sep 2011 -
A conversation with Michael Arad
An interview with the designer of the World Trade Center Memorial.
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Michael Arad on the September 11 Memorial's Design, Rebirth of Lower Manhattan
As the 15th anniversary of the tragic September 11th attacks approaches, Michael Arad, a partner at Handel Architects and the architect of the National September 11 Memorial, is proud of the site's design. Subscribe to TheStreetTV on YouTube: http://t.st/TheStreetTV For more content from TheStreet visit: http://thestreet.com Check out all our videos: http://youtube.com/user/TheStreetTV Follow TheStreet on Twitter: http://twitter.com/thestreet Like TheStreet on Facebook: http://facebook.com/TheStreet Follow TheStreet on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/company/theStreet Follow TheStreet on Google+: http://plus.google.com/+TheStreet
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Michael Arad
Michael Arad speaks at the AFHU Scholarship Luncheon 2013 about designing the World Trade Center Memorial
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Making Absence Visible: Michael Arad at TEDxWallStreet
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Michael Arad's design for the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site, titled "Reflecting Absence...
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Michael Arad's design for the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site, titled "Reflecting Absence," was selected by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation from among more than 5,000 entries submitted in an international competition held in 2003. Mr. Arad joined the New York firm of Handel Architects as a Partner in April 2004 where he worked on realizing the Memorial design as a member of the firm. In 2013 his work on the Memorial was recognized with Honor Awards from the AIA and ASLA.
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Michael Arad's design for the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site, titled "Reflecting Absence," was selected by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation from among more than 5,000 entries submitted in an international competition held in 2003. Mr. Arad joined the New York firm of Handel Architects as a Partner in April 2004 where he worked on realizing the Memorial design as a member of the firm. In 2013 his work on the Memorial was recognized with Honor Awards from the AIA and ASLA.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Michael Arad Interview | The National 9/11 Memorial
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Architect Michael Arad, who designed the 9/11 Memorial, discusses in this touching interview the evolution of his memorial design, as well as the relationship b...
Architect Michael Arad, who designed the 9/11 Memorial, discusses in this touching interview the evolution of his memorial design, as well as the relationship between memory and architecture.
The National 9/11 Memorial is an eight acre plaza set within the dense urban fabric of Lower Manhattan, where the former World Trade Center Twin Towers once stood.
The Memorial Plaza is an integral part of the sixteen acre redeveloped World Trade Center Complex, and it reaches and connects the site to the city beyond. It is an open and welcoming design that is meant to foster the democratic values of public assembly that played such a pivotal role in New York City’s collective response to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The Memorial Plaza forms an eight acre clearing in the middle of the city and is vaulted by a permeable canopy of close to four hundred swamp white oak trees. As visitors to the memorial make their way towards the center of this space, they encounter the two reflecting pools that deeply puncture the vast flat expanse of the plaza, and form empty vessels.
They are recessed thirty feet into the ground and are lined by waterfalls, delineating the location of the former towers. The voids are absence made present and visible.
Surrounding each acre-sized void is an eight-foot wide and two-foot high water table that serves as the source and springing point of these waterfalls. The water table and the voids are clad in a dark gray granite that was quarried in Virginia. The serrated metal edge of the weir channels the water into separate streams and evokes the haunting loss of thousands of individual lives and the collective loss suffered by all with its billowing curtain of water composed of thousands of individual strands of water.
The names of the victims are incised into darkly patinated bronze panels and appear as shadows during the day, marked by the absence of material. At night, the hovering wing-like profile of the panels is illuminated from within, lighting each name with a soft glow. The panels are simple in appearance but are complex in every other aspect, with precisely engineered and completely concealed heating, cooling, lighting and thermal expansion mechanisms.
The names that appear to be in no discernible order are in fact carefully composed in an arrangement that emerged when every family of a victim was asked to participate in the design process by suggesting what other victims’ names should be placed adjacent to the name of the person that they lost. Over twelve hundred individual requests were made and close to year of intense design work was required to resolve what seemed like an impossible task. The final arrangement that emerged met each and every request and placed each name in a physical location in the memorial that is unique and personal.
Michael Arad (b.1969) 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.
Arad was born in London, where his father, Moshe Arad, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States and Mexico, was on a diplomatic mission. Arad lived in Jerusalem for nine years. He did his military service in a Golani Brigade commando unit.
Michael Arad received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, and a master's degree from Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Architecture.
He moved to New York City in 1999 and worked as an architect at Kohn Pedersen Fox for three years. After KPF, Arad briefly worked for Leclere Associate Architects. When he submitted his design to the competition for the World Trade Center memorial, he was working for the New York City Housing Authority, designing police stations for the New York City Police Department. Arad now works, as partner, for Handel Architects, which has offices in New York and San Francisco.
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Michael Arad | filmed by Out of Sync | NYC April 2014
Interview | Jesper Bundgaard
Camera and edit | Per Henriksen
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https://wn.com/Michael_Arad_Interview_|_The_National_9_11_Memorial
Architect Michael Arad, who designed the 9/11 Memorial, discusses in this touching interview the evolution of his memorial design, as well as the relationship between memory and architecture.
The National 9/11 Memorial is an eight acre plaza set within the dense urban fabric of Lower Manhattan, where the former World Trade Center Twin Towers once stood.
The Memorial Plaza is an integral part of the sixteen acre redeveloped World Trade Center Complex, and it reaches and connects the site to the city beyond. It is an open and welcoming design that is meant to foster the democratic values of public assembly that played such a pivotal role in New York City’s collective response to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The Memorial Plaza forms an eight acre clearing in the middle of the city and is vaulted by a permeable canopy of close to four hundred swamp white oak trees. As visitors to the memorial make their way towards the center of this space, they encounter the two reflecting pools that deeply puncture the vast flat expanse of the plaza, and form empty vessels.
They are recessed thirty feet into the ground and are lined by waterfalls, delineating the location of the former towers. The voids are absence made present and visible.
Surrounding each acre-sized void is an eight-foot wide and two-foot high water table that serves as the source and springing point of these waterfalls. The water table and the voids are clad in a dark gray granite that was quarried in Virginia. The serrated metal edge of the weir channels the water into separate streams and evokes the haunting loss of thousands of individual lives and the collective loss suffered by all with its billowing curtain of water composed of thousands of individual strands of water.
The names of the victims are incised into darkly patinated bronze panels and appear as shadows during the day, marked by the absence of material. At night, the hovering wing-like profile of the panels is illuminated from within, lighting each name with a soft glow. The panels are simple in appearance but are complex in every other aspect, with precisely engineered and completely concealed heating, cooling, lighting and thermal expansion mechanisms.
The names that appear to be in no discernible order are in fact carefully composed in an arrangement that emerged when every family of a victim was asked to participate in the design process by suggesting what other victims’ names should be placed adjacent to the name of the person that they lost. Over twelve hundred individual requests were made and close to year of intense design work was required to resolve what seemed like an impossible task. The final arrangement that emerged met each and every request and placed each name in a physical location in the memorial that is unique and personal.
Michael Arad (b.1969) 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.
Arad was born in London, where his father, Moshe Arad, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States and Mexico, was on a diplomatic mission. Arad lived in Jerusalem for nine years. He did his military service in a Golani Brigade commando unit.
Michael Arad received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, and a master's degree from Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Architecture.
He moved to New York City in 1999 and worked as an architect at Kohn Pedersen Fox for three years. After KPF, Arad briefly worked for Leclere Associate Architects. When he submitted his design to the competition for the World Trade Center memorial, he was working for the New York City Housing Authority, designing police stations for the New York City Police Department. Arad now works, as partner, for Handel Architects, which has offices in New York and San Francisco.
CREDITS
Michael Arad | filmed by Out of Sync | NYC April 2014
Interview | Jesper Bundgaard
Camera and edit | Per Henriksen
Producer | Out of Sync
© Out of Sync 2017
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A Conversation with Michael Arad '91
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Michael Arad '91, designer of Reflecting Absence, World Trade Center Site Memorial, speaks with Dartmouth College Director of Media Relations Justin Anderson ab...
Michael Arad '91, designer of Reflecting Absence, World Trade Center Site Memorial, speaks with Dartmouth College Director of Media Relations Justin Anderson about what the design means to him and how his experience at Dartmouth helped prepare him for the eight-year-long process of building the memorial.
https://wn.com/A_Conversation_With_Michael_Arad_'91
Michael Arad '91, designer of Reflecting Absence, World Trade Center Site Memorial, speaks with Dartmouth College Director of Media Relations Justin Anderson about what the design means to him and how his experience at Dartmouth helped prepare him for the eight-year-long process of building the memorial.
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Michael Arad, 9/11 Memorial
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Georgia Tech architecture alumnus Michael Arad designed the 9/11 Memorial in remembrance of those killed in the attacks on September 11, 2001. In this excerpt f...
Georgia Tech architecture alumnus Michael Arad designed the 9/11 Memorial in remembrance of those killed in the attacks on September 11, 2001. In this excerpt from a lecture Arad gave at Georgia Tech in 2012, he explains his thought process behind his design of the 9/11 Memorial, "Reflecting Absence."
Read the full feature story: http://www.news.gatech.edu/features/9-11-memorial.
Learn more about Georgia Tech: http://www.gatech.edu
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Georgia Tech architecture alumnus Michael Arad designed the 9/11 Memorial in remembrance of those killed in the attacks on September 11, 2001. In this excerpt from a lecture Arad gave at Georgia Tech in 2012, he explains his thought process behind his design of the 9/11 Memorial, "Reflecting Absence."
Read the full feature story: http://www.news.gatech.edu/features/9-11-memorial.
Learn more about Georgia Tech: http://www.gatech.edu
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Michael Arad unveils Emanuel Nine Memorial to commemorate Charleston church shooting
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Michael Arad, the architect behind New York's 9/11 Memorial, has revealed plans for a monument dedicated to the victims of a shooting massacre that took place a...
Michael Arad, the architect behind New York's 9/11 Memorial, has revealed plans for a monument dedicated to the victims of a shooting massacre that took place at Charleston's Mother Emanuel AME Church.
The Emanuel Nine Memorial will recognise those who were killed and wounded in the racially motivated Charleston church shooting on 17 June 2015. White supremacist Dylann Roof opened fire during an evening service, murdering nine African American attendees and injuring five.
Located on the church grounds, Arad's monument will comprise two long benches facing each other across a courtyard, with a low-level marble fountain in between. Water will emerge from a cross-shaped opening in the dipped basin and eventually spill over its sides, where the names of the nine victims will be inscribed.
The design offers a small-scale interpretation of the 9/11 Memorial that Arad completed with landscape architect Peter Walker in 2011 to commemorate the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center.
Huge waterfalls cascade into pools that trace the exact footprints of the destroyed Twin Towers, with the names of those lost inscribed around the edge.
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Michael Arad, the architect behind New York's 9/11 Memorial, has revealed plans for a monument dedicated to the victims of a shooting massacre that took place at Charleston's Mother Emanuel AME Church.
The Emanuel Nine Memorial will recognise those who were killed and wounded in the racially motivated Charleston church shooting on 17 June 2015. White supremacist Dylann Roof opened fire during an evening service, murdering nine African American attendees and injuring five.
Located on the church grounds, Arad's monument will comprise two long benches facing each other across a courtyard, with a low-level marble fountain in between. Water will emerge from a cross-shaped opening in the dipped basin and eventually spill over its sides, where the names of the nine victims will be inscribed.
The design offers a small-scale interpretation of the 9/11 Memorial that Arad completed with landscape architect Peter Walker in 2011 to commemorate the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center.
Huge waterfalls cascade into pools that trace the exact footprints of the destroyed Twin Towers, with the names of those lost inscribed around the edge.
Read more on Dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/?p=1242936
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How do we remember? Michael Arad
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Michael Arad, designer of the World Trade Center Memorial, New York
"I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms...
Michael Arad, designer of the World Trade Center Memorial, New York
"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," said Handel Architects Partner and World Trade Center Memorial designer Michael Arad of witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Center. Four days after the opening of the memorial to that event, Arad will give an account of the long and sometimes-contentious road to its creation, and discuss how this new space of remembrance interacts with other elements of the 16-acre Ground Zero site: four towers, a public plaza, complex transportation infrastructure, and an underground museum.
Find out more at #wood91411
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Michael Arad, designer of the World Trade Center Memorial, New York
"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," said Handel Architects Partner and World Trade Center Memorial designer Michael Arad of witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Center. Four days after the opening of the memorial to that event, Arad will give an account of the long and sometimes-contentious road to its creation, and discuss how this new space of remembrance interacts with other elements of the 16-acre Ground Zero site: four towers, a public plaza, complex transportation infrastructure, and an underground museum.
Find out more at #wood91411
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Studio 360: 9/11 Memorial Tour With Architect Michael Arad
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Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen and architect Michael Arad visit the new 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan and talk about what inspired Arad's design.
Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen and architect Michael Arad visit the new 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan and talk about what inspired Arad's design.
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Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen and architect Michael Arad visit the new 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan and talk about what inspired Arad's design.
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A conversation with Michael Arad
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An interview with the designer of the World Trade Center Memorial.
An interview with the designer of the World Trade Center Memorial.
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An interview with the designer of the World Trade Center Memorial.
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Michael Arad on the September 11 Memorial's Design, Rebirth of Lower Manhattan
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As the 15th anniversary of the tragic September 11th attacks approaches, Michael Arad, a partner at Handel Architects and the architect of the National Septembe...
As the 15th anniversary of the tragic September 11th attacks approaches, Michael Arad, a partner at Handel Architects and the architect of the National September 11 Memorial, is proud of the site's design.
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As the 15th anniversary of the tragic September 11th attacks approaches, Michael Arad, a partner at Handel Architects and the architect of the National September 11 Memorial, is proud of the site's design.
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Michael Arad
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Michael Arad speaks at the AFHU Scholarship Luncheon 2013 about designing the World Trade Center Memorial
Michael Arad speaks at the AFHU Scholarship Luncheon 2013 about designing the World Trade Center Memorial
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Michael Arad speaks at the AFHU Scholarship Luncheon 2013 about designing the World Trade Center Memorial
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Making Absence Visible: Michael Arad at TEDxWallStreet
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Making Absence Visible: Michael Arad at TEDxWallStreet
Making Absence Visible: Michael Arad at TEDxWallStreet
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Michael Arad's design for the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site, titled "Reflecting Absence," was selected by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation from among more than 5,000 entries submitted in an international competition held in 2003. Mr. Arad joined the New York firm of Handel Architects as a Partner in April 2004 where he worked on realizing the Memorial design as a member of the firm. In 2013 his work on the Memorial was recognized with Honor Awards from the AIA and ASLA.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Michael Arad Interview | The National 9/11 Memorial
Architect Michael Arad, who designed the 9/11 Memorial, discusses in this touching intervi...
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Michael Arad Interview | The National 9/11 Memorial
Michael Arad Interview | The National 9/11 Memorial
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Architect Michael Arad, who designed the 9/11 Memorial, discusses in this touching interview the evolution of his memorial design, as well as the relationship between memory and architecture.
The National 9/11 Memorial is an eight acre plaza set within the dense urban fabric of Lower Manhattan, where the former World Trade Center Twin Towers once stood.
The Memorial Plaza is an integral part of the sixteen acre redeveloped World Trade Center Complex, and it reaches and connects the site to the city beyond. It is an open and welcoming design that is meant to foster the democratic values of public assembly that played such a pivotal role in New York City’s collective response to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The Memorial Plaza forms an eight acre clearing in the middle of the city and is vaulted by a permeable canopy of close to four hundred swamp white oak trees. As visitors to the memorial make their way towards the center of this space, they encounter the two reflecting pools that deeply puncture the vast flat expanse of the plaza, and form empty vessels.
They are recessed thirty feet into the ground and are lined by waterfalls, delineating the location of the former towers. The voids are absence made present and visible.
Surrounding each acre-sized void is an eight-foot wide and two-foot high water table that serves as the source and springing point of these waterfalls. The water table and the voids are clad in a dark gray granite that was quarried in Virginia. The serrated metal edge of the weir channels the water into separate streams and evokes the haunting loss of thousands of individual lives and the collective loss suffered by all with its billowing curtain of water composed of thousands of individual strands of water.
The names of the victims are incised into darkly patinated bronze panels and appear as shadows during the day, marked by the absence of material. At night, the hovering wing-like profile of the panels is illuminated from within, lighting each name with a soft glow. The panels are simple in appearance but are complex in every other aspect, with precisely engineered and completely concealed heating, cooling, lighting and thermal expansion mechanisms.
The names that appear to be in no discernible order are in fact carefully composed in an arrangement that emerged when every family of a victim was asked to participate in the design process by suggesting what other victims’ names should be placed adjacent to the name of the person that they lost. Over twelve hundred individual requests were made and close to year of intense design work was required to resolve what seemed like an impossible task. The final arrangement that emerged met each and every request and placed each name in a physical location in the memorial that is unique and personal.
Michael Arad (b.1969) 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.
Arad was born in London, where his father, Moshe Arad, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States and Mexico, was on a diplomatic mission. Arad lived in Jerusalem for nine years. He did his military service in a Golani Brigade commando unit.
Michael Arad received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, and a master's degree from Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Architecture.
He moved to New York City in 1999 and worked as an architect at Kohn Pedersen Fox for three years. After KPF, Arad briefly worked for Leclere Associate Architects. When he submitted his design to the competition for the World Trade Center memorial, he was working for the New York City Housing Authority, designing police stations for the New York City Police Department. Arad now works, as partner, for Handel Architects, which has offices in New York and San Francisco.
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A Conversation with Michael Arad '91
Michael Arad '91, designer of Reflecting Absence, World Trade Center Site Memorial, speaks...
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Michael Arad '91, designer of Reflecting Absence, World Trade Center Site Memorial, speaks with Dartmouth College Director of Media Relations Justin Anderson about what the design means to him and how his experience at Dartmouth helped prepare him for the eight-year-long process of building the memorial.
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Michael Arad, 9/11 Memorial
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Georgia Tech architecture alumnus Michael Arad designed the 9/11 Memorial in remembrance of those killed in the attacks on September 11, 2001. In this excerpt from a lecture Arad gave at Georgia Tech in 2012, he explains his thought process behind his design of the 9/11 Memorial, "Reflecting Absence."
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Michael Arad unveils Emanuel Nine Memorial to commemorate Charleston church shooting
Michael Arad, the architect behind New York's 9/11 Memorial, has revealed plans for a monu...
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Michael Arad unveils Emanuel Nine Memorial to commemorate Charleston church shooting
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Michael Arad, the architect behind New York's 9/11 Memorial, has revealed plans for a monument dedicated to the victims of a shooting massacre that took place at Charleston's Mother Emanuel AME Church.
The Emanuel Nine Memorial will recognise those who were killed and wounded in the racially motivated Charleston church shooting on 17 June 2015. White supremacist Dylann Roof opened fire during an evening service, murdering nine African American attendees and injuring five.
Located on the church grounds, Arad's monument will comprise two long benches facing each other across a courtyard, with a low-level marble fountain in between. Water will emerge from a cross-shaped opening in the dipped basin and eventually spill over its sides, where the names of the nine victims will be inscribed.
The design offers a small-scale interpretation of the 9/11 Memorial that Arad completed with landscape architect Peter Walker in 2011 to commemorate the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center.
Huge waterfalls cascade into pools that trace the exact footprints of the destroyed Twin Towers, with the names of those lost inscribed around the edge.
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How do we remember? Michael Arad
Michael Arad, designer of the World Trade Center Memorial, New York
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Michael Arad, designer of the World Trade Center Memorial, New York
"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," said Handel Architects Partner and World Trade Center Memorial designer Michael Arad of witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Center. Four days after the opening of the memorial to that event, Arad will give an account of the long and sometimes-contentious road to its creation, and discuss how this new space of remembrance interacts with other elements of the 16-acre Ground Zero site: four towers, a public plaza, complex transportation infrastructure, and an underground museum.
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Studio 360: 9/11 Memorial Tour With Architect Michael Arad
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Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen and architect Michael Arad visit the new 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan and talk about what inspired Arad's design.
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A conversation with Michael Arad
An interview with the designer of the World Trade Center Memorial.
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An interview with the designer of the World Trade Center Memorial.
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Michael Arad on the September 11 Memorial's Design, Rebirth of Lower Manhattan
As the 15th anniversary of the tragic September 11th attacks approaches, Michael Arad, a p...
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Michael Arad on the September 11 Memorial's Design, Rebirth of Lower Manhattan
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As the 15th anniversary of the tragic September 11th attacks approaches, Michael Arad, a partner at Handel Architects and the architect of the National September 11 Memorial, is proud of the site's design.
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Michael Arad
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Michael Arad speaks at the AFHU Scholarship Luncheon 2013 about designing the World Trade Center Memorial
Michael Arad
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.
Early life and education
Arad, an Israeli citizen, was born in 1969 in London. London was where his father, Moshe Arad, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States and Mexico, was on a diplomatic mission. Arad lived in Jerusalem for nine years. He did his military service in a Golani Brigade commando unit.
Arad received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, and a master's degree from Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Architecture.
Career
He moved to New York City in 1999 and worked as an architect at Kohn Pedersen Fox for three years. After KPF, Arad briefly worked for Leclere Associate Architects. When he submitted his design to the competition for the World Trade Center memorial, he was working for the New York City Housing Authority, designing police stations for the New York City Police Department. Arad now works for Handel Architects, which has offices in New York and San Francisco.
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by Michael Heart
We Will Not Go Down (song For Gaza)
by: Michael HeartA blinding flash of white light
Lit up the sky over Gaza tonight
People running for cover
Not knowing whether they’re dead or alive
They came with their tanks and their planes
With ravaging fiery flames
And nothing remains
Just a voice rising up in the smoky haze
Chorus: We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight
Women and children alike
Murdered and massacred night after night
While the so-called leaders of countries afar
Debated on who’s wrong or right
But their powerless words were in vain
And the bombs fell down like acid rain
But through the tears and the blood and the pain
You can still hear that voice through the smoky haze
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