“As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass as...” — Michael Arad Quote

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.

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.

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.

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.