He served on the World Trade Center Memorial design jury.
It was a meeting of a design jury, convened to select new products for the MOMA gift shop.
Ms. Contini said no decision had been made yet about the makeup of a design jury here.
An exhibition of photographs of notable buildings chosen by a design jury will be on display through June 8.
Participants in One Year On are all in their first year of business and are selected by a design jury based on the quality of their work.
To select finalists, the design jury held a competition that was organized by Buff Suzanne Kavelman, the director of the Smithsonian's National Design Awards at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
For their presentation before the design jury, the Obra architects wore custom-made black-and-white T-shirts with the P.S. 1-MoMA logo.
What was the toughest question the design jury asked? A. The funny thing about the jury was I went in there, like, "Oh, this is nothing!" — because my daughter had just been born and I felt pretty empowered.
Joining Mr. Arad on the design jury are, among others, the architects Richard Meier and Elizabeth Diller; the landscape architect Ken Smith; the High Line's co-founder and executive director, Robert Hammond; the choreographer Bill T. Jones; and the novelist and journalist Kurt Andersen.
"I think of it as regional modernism," said Frederick Steiner, an academic who headed the design jury at the American Society of Landscape Architects, which is giving Mayo Woodlands a merit award in the fall.
