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" 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. "
Architecture
Future
Relationships
" 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. "
Construction
Design
Name
" How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative? "
Quiet
Design
Feel
" I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave. "
You
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. "
Yourself
You
Trust
" If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York. "
New York
Live
Israel
" I had a dual role: designer and advocate. "
Role
Advocate
Designer
" 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. "
You
Stupid
Ideas
" 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. "
Experience
City
Together
" I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here. "
Love
Like
Outsider
" 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. "
Long
View
You
" 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.' "
Process
Find
Forward
" 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. "
Me
Influence
Design
" 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. "
Emotions
Trying
Think
" It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined. "
New York
People
Responsibility
" It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head. "
Head
Your
Moment
" 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. "
Work
Live
New York
" 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. "
Way
Off
Light
" There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements. "
Collaboration
Differences
Landscape
" 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. "
Accept
You
Faith
" When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category. "
Stop
People
Know
" You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you. "
You
Whatever
Always
" You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you. "
Whatever
Put
Back
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