WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism is a multidisciplinary design practice based in New York City. Founded by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, the firm is known for their integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design. Weiss/Manfredi received the Academy Award in Architecture, an award given annually by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, acknowledging the unique vision of the firm. They were also named one of North America's "Emerging Voices" by the Architectural League of New York and the firm won the New York City AIA Gold Medal of Honor.
Their recently completed Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum was a winner of an international competition and was recently recognized as the Nature category winner at the World Architecture Festival, Best in Category by the I.D. Magazine Environments Design Awards, and was the first North American project to be awarded Harvard University's International Veronica Green Prize in Urban Design. Weiss/Manfredi recently won the international competition to design the new Taekwondo Park in Muju, Korea. Other current projects include the Barnard College Nexus, a multi-use arts center; the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitors Center; and the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania.
The firm has won numerous awards and competitions and has been featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Modem Art, the Venice Architectural Biennale, the Sao Paolo Biennale of International Architecture and Design, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the National Building Museum, Harvard University, The International Landscape Architecture Biennale in Barcelona, and the Design Center in Essen, Germany. Recently, Princeton Architectural Press published a monograph, Weiss/Manfredi: Surface/Subsurface.
Marion Weiss is the Graham Chair Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design and is a partner at WEISS/MANFREDI with Michael Manfredi. She has taught at Yale University and Cornell University and was an AAUW National Emerging Scholar. She received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Virginia and Master of Architecture from Yale University where she won the SOM Traveling Fellowship and the AIA Scholastic Award.
Weiss/Manfredi's Olympic Sculpture Park, winner of an international competition, won the 2007 VR Green Prize, an international award given to one project in the world every two years. Known for the integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape, her firm won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award for Architecture, AIA New York's Gold Medal, the Architectural League of New York's "Emerging Voices" award, and numerous international design competitions including the Women's Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, Korea's Taekwondo Cultural Park, and the Barnard College Nexus, scheduled to open in 2009. Her firm's projects have been featured in the Museum of Modern Art, the Venice Architectural Biennale, the Sao Paolo Biennial of International Architecture and Design, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's "Design Culture Now" Triennial, and the National Building Museum. Princeton Architectural Press published two monographs on their work: Site Specific: the Work of Weiss/Manfredi Architects and the recent Weiss/Manfredi: Surface/Subsurface.
Michael Manfredi is a partner at WEISS/MANFREDI with Marion Weiss. He has taught at a number of institutions including Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and Cornell University where he is the Gensler Visiting Professor of Architecture. He is a founding trustee of the Van Alen Institute, a trustee at Storefront for Art and Architecture, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Born in Italy, he was educated at the University of Notre Dame. He won the Paris Prize and continued his studies with Colin Rowe at Cornell University where he received his Master of Architecture. He was a Cornell University Fellow and recipient of the Eidlitz Award.
Weiss/Manfredi's Olympic Sculpture Park, winner of an international competition, won the 2007 VR Green Prize, an international award given to one project in the world every two years. Known for the integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape, his firm won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award for Architecture, AIA New York's Gold Medal, the Architectural League of New York's "Emerging Voices" award, and numerous international design competitions including the Women's Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, Korea's Taekwondo Cultural Park, and the Barnard College Nexus, scheduled to open in 2009. His firm's projects have been featured in the Museum of Modern Art, the Venice Architectural Biennale, the Sao Paolo Biennial of International Architecture and Design, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's "Design Culture Now" Triennial, and the National Building Museum. Princeton Architectural Press published two monographs on their work: Site Specific: the Work of Weiss/Manfredi Architects and the recent Weiss/Manfredi: Surface/Subsurface.