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	Georgia Institute of Technology :: Profiles—Michael Arad
		Michael Arad is one of the country's brightest young architects, and his design for the World Trade Center Memorial was chosen from more than 5,000 entries.
		Arad's design, "Reflecting Absence," features a pair of reflecting pools, cascading waterfalls surrounding the names of the dead, and a "living park" at ground level symbolizing life and rebirth.
		Arad received a Master of Architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999 and a Bachelor of Science degree from Dartmouth College in 1994.
	www.gatech.edu /profiles/arad.php (316 words)

	Michael Arad - Architecture and Memory Symposium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Michael Arad was working as an architect for the New York City Housing Authority when his design, "Reflecting Absence," was selected for the World Trade Center Memorial.
		Arad received a Master of Architecture degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999 and a Bachelor of Science degree from Dartmouth College in 1994.
		The son of a diplomat, Arad has also lived in London, Mexico City and Washington D.C. He is married to Melanie Fitzpatrick, a lawyer, and alumna of the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech.
	www.coa.gatech.edu /symposium/arad.html (223 words)

	America Rebuilds II: Return to Ground Zero . Michael Arad \| PBS
		Michael Arad's design for the World Trade Center memorial was selected in January 2004 after a high-profile competition that drew 5,201 submissions from 63 countries.
		Arad's design, "Reflecting Absence," features two reflecting pools set 30 feet deep in the footprints of the twin towers, with cascading waterfalls surrounded by the names of those who lost their lives in the attacks of September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993.
		Arad said that his own experience of witnessing the events of 9/11 and bonding with other New Yorkers in the immediate aftermath shaped his design for the memorial.
	www.pbs.org /americarebuilds2/profiles/profiles_arad.html (250 words)

	Michael Arad
		Arad, an Israeli who has lived in Manhattan since 1999, is the only unknown architect who is working on the Ground Zero project; at 34, he's also the youngest, by decades, on the design team.
		Arad's "Reflecting Absence," which was chosen from more than 5,000 entries from around the world during an eight-month competition, is a starkly simple tribute consisting of a pair of square reflecting pools that evoke the footprints of the Twin Towers.
		The child of an Israeli diplomat, Arad, who was born in London on July 21, 1969-the day after the first moon landing, his parents always like to tell him-spent his childhood in Israel, the United States and Mexico.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/michael_arad.html (1520 words)

	Michael Arad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is the original Michael Arad design board submitted in the World Trade Center Memorial Design competition.
		Arad completed his service in the Israel Defense Force in 1991.
		At street level, with the help of landscape architect Peter Walker, Arad proposed a cobblestone plaza with moss and grass and planted with eastern white pine trees.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Arad (458 words)

	The World Trade Center Memorial Competition
		Arad, a 34-year-old Israeli architect working for the New York City Housing Authority, was virtually unheard of in the art and architecture world.
		Arad, who had stood on Fulton Street on September 11 with his wife and watched in horror as the first tower collapsed, began sketching ideas even before the competition was announced.
		Finally, Arad and Walker added an underground memorial center to house artifacts from the attacks, including the charred vestiges of fire trucks and the twisted columns of the towers.
	www.worldandi.com /subscribers/feature_detail.asp?num=23839 (2097 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES
		In fact, of course, Michael Arad’s design (Walker got involved only after Arad was selected as one of eight finalists, in November) did away with what had been considered the most fundamental aspect of Libeskind’s original proposal, the sunken pit in which a memorial was to be placed.
		Arad ignored all this, although part of the slurry wall was exposed in the revised plan that he worked out with Walker.
		Arad told the father of a woman who died on September 11th that he did not include the ruins because “I didn’t want to design a drive-by memorial.” He wanted every visitor to stop and descend into the memorial, and so he included an underground museum that will contain relics of the Trade center.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/critics/040209crsk_skyline (1929 words)

	Michael Arad: Reflecting Absence: The Memorial at the World Trade Center
		Michael Arad D'91 was working as an architect for the New York City Housing Authority when his design, “Reflecting Absence,” was selected for the World Trade Center memorial.
		Arad received a master’s degree in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999 and a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in 1994.
		The son of a diplomat, Arad has also lived in London and Washington, D.C. He is married to Melanie Fitzpatrick, a lawyer, and they have a six-month-old son named Nathaniel.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~lhc/events/2004/arad.html (173 words)

	BuzzWords
		Arad said he consulted with Allen, his former professor, on a number of occasions as he worked through the competition process.
		Arad’s street-level design features a plaza with irregular trees from which are carved the footprints of the twin towers in two 30-foot-deep sunken reflecting pools.
		Arad quipped that the long hours he spent as a student working on classroom projects helped prepare him for the ordeal of the competition.
	gtalumni.org /buzzwords/pastissues/apr04/article63.html (386 words)

	Monumental Victory - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com
		Arad's scheme, "Reflecting Absence," was the simplest of the eight and, for that very reason, the most powerful.
		Arad was told to find a landscape architect—he chose the established modernist Peter Walker—and the spartan plaza will now include "teeming groves of trees," said jury chair Vartan Gregorian in a statement.
		Arad's design had ignored much of Libeskind's master plan: Arad's plaza is at street level, not in a 30-foot pit; the "slurry" wall of the old foundation isn't visible and he put a narrow cultural building along the western edge of the site, not on the northeast corner.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3926106 (647 words)

	Georgia Institute of Technology :: News Room :: Alumnus Among Finalists for Design of World Trade Center Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Michael Arad, who graduated from Georgia Tech in 1999 with a master’s degree in architecture, has submitted Reflecting Absence: A Memorial at the World Trade Center Site as a design for the international World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition, launched this past April.
		Michael Arad’s proposed design includes reflecting pools and waterfalls in the footprints where the former World Trade Center towers once stood.
		Khan said that, of the nine master’s projects submitted the same quarter as Arad's, his was the only one where the studio inquiry took on both formal and social issues, with each informing and pushing forward the other.
	www.gatech.edu /news-room/release.php?id=216 (908 words)

	CNN.com - Winning WTC memorial design revealed - Jan. 7, 2004
		Arad said he would strive to "create a place where we may all grieve and find meaning" to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack that toppled the Trade Center and claimed 2,752 lives at Ground Zero.
		Gregorian said the jury found Arad's "simple articulation of the footprints" effectively "made the gaping voids left by the towers' destruction the primary symbol of loss" and that the trees were "traditional affirmations of life and rebirth."
		Arad also proposes, in an alternation from the master site plan created by architect Daniel Libeskind, relocating the commemorative museum to the western edge of the site to block an eight-lane road.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/Northeast/01/06/wtc.memorial/index.html (995 words)

	Tech Topics Spring 2004 - Reflecting Absence
		When Michael Arad's design was picked over 5,200 others for the World Trade Center memorial, the Georgia Tech alumnus suddenly became a hot media commodity.
		Arad told The New York Times that on Sept. 11, 2001, he watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center, raced downtown to find his wife, an attorney, and from Fulton Street, experienced the collapse of the first tower.
		Allen said he was pleased when Arad told him he had chosen acclaimed landscape architect Peter Walker, noted for his design of Millennium Park for the Sydney Olympics, to work with him on requested revisions, including the addition of lush greenery to replace sparse pine trees in the original plan.
	gtalumni.org /StayInformed/techtopics/spr04/article1.html (626 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Pools design chosen to mark 9/11
		Architect Michael Arad has won an international competition to design the main memorial for the victims of the attacks of 11 September 2001.
		Arad's design was chosen from among eight finalists by a 13-member jury which held a marathon meeting on Monday in New York.
		Arad said in a statement that he was "honoured and overwhelmed" by his win.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3374521.stm (1396 words)

	www.ny.gov - GOVERNOR PATAKI AND MAYOR BLOOMBERG JOIN ARCHITECTS MICHAEL ARAD, PETER WALKER AND MAX BOND TO REVEAL NEW ...
		Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said, "The memorial designed by Michael Arad and Peter Walker was selected among many outstanding designs because of the way it captures the depth of the attacks on our City, while also giving shape to New York's spirit and our unshakable hope for the future.
		I believe that as a City, as a nation and as a global community, we need to be able to make these physical, personal and spiritual connections to the events of 2001 and 1993, and that need is most intense for victims' family members and their friends.
		Michael Arad, Partner at Handel Architects, said, "We have taken the powerful concepts on which the design is based and working together and listening to countless numbers of people to whom the success of the memorial is of the utmost importance, we have refined the design and reinforced its intent.
	www.state.ny.us /governor/press/04/dec16_2_04.htm (1654 words)

	Culture returns to memorial design
		Michael Arad wanted to take out almost all of the cultural buildings adjacent to the World Trade Center memorial in his original Reflecting Absence design, but his revised plan selected by the jury this week will restore most if not all of the museum and performance spaces, according to planning officials.
		Arad, 34, an architect with the New York City Housing Authority, Peter Walker, the landscape architect who joined Arad to add more green to his plaza design, and the 13 jurors will be freed from their confidentiality agreements with next week’s announcement.
		Arad, 34, in a prepared statement, said: “I hope that I will be able to honor the memory of all those who perished, and create a place where we may all grieve and find meaning.
	www.downtownexpress.com /de_35/culturereturns.html (1426 words)

	Trade Center memorial gets a lift - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
		Michael Arad, the city architect whose "Reflecting Absence" was chosen last week, was joined by his new partner, landscape architect Peter Walker.
		In Arad’s original design, the pools were interspersed with a scattering of pine trees, which Arad said would reflect the height of the towers.
		Arad said the victims’ names will be arranged in no particular order around the reflecting pools.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3955800 (838 words)

	Reflecting on the W.T.C. memorial
		Michael Arad, the previously unknown 34-year-old city architect picked to design the $350-million memorial at the World Trade Center site, spoke directly to the public for the first time on Wednesday about his Reflecting Absence design.
		Arad, who asked landscape architect Peter Walker to add more trees to the area around his two recessed pools at the Twin Towers and footprints, said the plan will be “open and visible reminders of loss and absence.”
		Arad said it was hard to find a balance between recognizing the sacrifice some made saving others without diminishing the value of all of the lives that were lost.
	www.downtownexpress.com /de_36/reflectingonthewtc.html (1323 words)

	The Breaking of WTC Memorial Architect Michael Arad -- New York Magazine (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Arad’s initial design had the pools set off within the footprints, positioned slightly south, primarily as a way to accommodate four access ramps—an entrance and an exit for each pool.
		Arad thought that having the pools on the exact center of the footprints was of no real significance—the total area of the pools, the galleries, and the ramps covered the combined footprints anyway.
		Handel and Arad suspected the firm had changed the alignment of the pools for a reason that had nothing to do with the families: to better accommodate design elements of another project, the $160 million Memorial Museum that Davis Brody Bond was bidding to take over.
	newyorkmetro.com.cob-web.org:8888 /arts/architecture/features/17015/index5.html (1237 words)

	Esquire:Feature Story:Man of the Month: Michael Arad
		So in the thirty-four-year-old Arad, a star is born, as quietly as possible and with great ambivalence.
		But the jurors were struck by the simplicity and elegance of Arad's design, which he called "Reflecting Absence." Still, by the time they were done with it, the voids were still there, but his stark plaza looked more like a park.
		Now Arad pleaded with him to alter the preliminary plan for another key element, a shard-shaped museum, so that it would not lean over one of the voids.
	www.esquire.com /features/articles/2004/060516_mfe_May_04_Arad.html (963 words)

	World Trade Center - Memorial and Reconstruction Proposal - Plans and photographs of a proposal for the World Trade ...
		Arad's design vision, as presented at the final competition announcement in January, extended beyond the immediate footprints of the former twin towers, and addressed issues at and beyond the perimeter of the 4.7 acre site at south-west quadrant of the WTC superblock -- in other words, the core memorial and surrounding environment.
		In standing up to LMDC with such vigor, Arad is asserting himself in a manner parallel to what Maya Lin experienced in her travails with federal authorities in the early 1980s, when design details for her Vietnam memorial were being poked and hacked from left and right.
		Michael dared to question the suitability of the Libeskind site plan, and simply treated the south-west quadrant of the site as a blank canvas, upon which he sculpted two eloquent voids defined by enormous waterwalls that will create a truly impressive visual and auditory effect for visitors.
	www.planetcast.com /wtc (10592 words)

	PEP, February 2004: Memorial winner, city worker.
		Arad’s inspirational “Reflecting Absence” was one of 5,201 submissions from 63 countries.
		Arad is a great example of the quality of the civil service workers in our local.
		Arad spoke softly and emotionally as he explained the concept of his design.
	www.dc37.net /news/PEP/2_2004/wtc_memorial.html (469 words)

	IDOnline.com - The International Design Magazine - Graphic Design, Product Design, Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Like all the finalists in the Ground Zero memorial competition, Michael Arad was a complete unknown until the jury plucked his design-a stark, minimalist scheme called "Reflecting Absence"-out of a pile of 5,201 entries.
		Arad's design challenged Daniel Libeskind's master plan by lifting the memorial out of the so-called bathtub and up to street level.
		As it happened, the judges were looking for just that sort of statement; after suggesting that Arad find an experienced collaborator to help him polish the rough edges of his design-he chose veteran landscape architect Peter Walker-the jury awarded him the commission in January.
	www.idonline.com /features/feature.asp?id=1300 (1099 words)

	USATODAY.com - Reflecting pool design chosen for WTC memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Reflecting Absence, by architects Michael Arad and Peter Walker, was selected by a 13-member jury that included Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.
		Arad, an architect for New York City's housing authority, said in a written statement that he hopes he "will be able to honor the memory of all those who perished, and create a place where we may all grieve and find meaning."
		But Monica Iken, whose husband, Michael, was killed on the 84th floor of the south tower, said: "I look at this as hope for the future.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-01-06-wtc-design_x.htm (690 words)

	Tech alumnus designs 9/11 memorial
		Arad’s signature image is a southeast aerial view, where two reflecting pools occupy the footprints of the Twin Towers.
		Michael Arad, who graduated from Georgia Tech in 1999 with a master’s degree in architecture, designed “Reflecting Absence: A Memorial at the World Trade Center Site” for the international World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition, launched in April 2003.
		Officials said that Arad’s winning design has evolved significantly since the eight finalists were placed on exhibit at New York City’s Winter Garden this past November, and more changes are expected before it is to be built.
	www.whistle.gatech.edu /archives/04/jan/12/wtcmemorial.shtml (665 words)

	AIArchitect, January 27, 2006 - Young Architects Honored—They Are All Winners!
		Arad graduated with a MArch from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and a BA from Dartmouth College.
		Arad also was a Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) Foundation Architecture Traveling Fellowship nominee in 1999; a finalist in the Southern GF Corp. Competition, 1999; and a finalist in the Big River Industries Competition, 1999.
		Michael Ayles, AIA, past chair, AIA Young Architects Forum, states: “In the architecture profession, there are those who are great designers, those who are eager to speak up and advocate for issues to make our built environment better, and those who are consummate leaders in their community, their professional societies, and their firms.
	www.aia.org /aiarchitect/thisweek06/0127/0127youngarchitects.cfm (1945 words)

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