Friday, April 30, 2004
4:00 pm
1 Rockefeller
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.
He moved to New York City in 1999 and joined Kohn Pedersen
Fox, where he worked on several major projects, including
Union Station Tower, a mixed-use 108-story skyscraper
in Hong Kong, and Espirito Santo Plaza, a 37-story tower
in Miami that won the NY AIA Award in 2001.
 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. He served in the Israeli military from 1988 to
1991, in the reconnaissance unit of an infantry brigade,
and before that lived in Mexico City, where he attended
a British high school. 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.
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