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Longwood Gardens West Conservatory

Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus at the University of Toronto

Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park 

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center

Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture Park

Kent State Center for Architecture and Environmental Design

Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology

Museum of the Earth

Barnard College Diana Center

As public and natural realms are continually eroded, Weiss/Manfredi believes architecture should concern itself with the whole of the built environment.

By intentionally drawing from and contributing to the systems that are intrinsic to a place, our projects are evolving experiments in the creation of a more elastic definition of architecture: one that connects the loose ends of art, landscape, infrastructure, and ecology to create new forms for public engagement.

Longwood Gardens
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Longwood Gardens
Longwood Reimagined continues the institution's distinguished history of commissioning outstanding garden designs, resulting in a sweeping yet deeply sensitive transformation in the most ambitious revitalization in a century of America's greatest center for horticultural display.
The Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus at the University of Toronto
Multi-story winter gardens are dispersed throughout the building and dissolve internal boundaries, creating conditions for chance encounters and conversations that spark innovation.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art International Design Competition – Creating a Museum for All
As a nexus of culture and community, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is treasured for its innovative programs and internationally recognized collection. The crisp forms of the existing buildings offer an elegant counterpoint to the landscape, yet their opacity conceals the vibrancy of the museum and precludes an invitation to the broader community. Our design’s organic geometries shape the new west addition, and, with the expanded south terrace, recenters the cultural campus around the treasured sculpture park. The newly accessible north entry frames a natural ecological landscape, and the rooftop addition amplifies a central entry.
Drifting Symmetries: Projects, Provocations, and Other Enduring Models
Weiss/Manfredi's first book in a decade, Drifting Symmetries synthesizes project and precedent to construct more resilient settings for contemporary life
Tampa Museum of Art Renovation and Expansion
The renovation and expansion will reinforce the museum's commitment to the arts and forge new engagements with the growing Tampa community.
Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park
Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park transforms 30 acres of post-industrial waterfront into a program-rich public space that simultaneously acts as a protective perimeter for the neighboring residential community.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Robert W. Wilson Overlook
Subtly sloping ramps with sculptural retaining walls enhance the Garden's circulation by connecting the top and bottom of the hillside with a newly accessible route.
Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale University
Continuous sightlines unite spaces of creation and critique, encouraging interdisciplinary discourse.
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum Master Plan
The renovation and expansion is conceived as a contemporary Wunderkammer, a treasure chest of stunning fossils and artifacts, from large to microscopic.
Artis—Naples Baker Museum
Resilient design strategies are coupled with programmatic strategies that allow Artis—Naples to better serve the surrounding community and provide enhanced visual and performing arts programming.
Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech
Envisioned as a crystalline incubator, the Tata Innovation Center establishes a catalytic setting for research and innovation.
WEISS/MANFREDI on the Road: Drifting Symmetries at LongHouse Reserve
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WEISS/MANFREDI on the Road: Drifting Symmetries at LongHouse Reserve
Longwood Gardens West Conservatory wins Popular Choice Architizer A+ Award
Transformative Work on Lincoln Center’s Western Edge Featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine
WEISS/MANFREDI at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
WEISS/MANFREDI Deliver Keynote Speech at Perspective Europe 2025 in Venice
WEISS/MANFREDI Selected to Design Nelson-Atkins Expansion
WEISS/MANFREDI on Architectural Record’s DESIGN:ED Podcast
WEISS/MANFREDI Launches New Book, DRIFTING SYMMETRIES: Projects, Provocations, and Other Enduring Models
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi featured on As Built Podcast
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Reveals Finalists’ Competition Designs
WEISS/MANFREDI to be exhibited at the U.S. Pavilion at the 19th Venice Biennale

The necessity of design provides an impetus for research, and often the unpredictable detour invites surprise and innovation.

Our search for resonance is nonlinear. The abandoned studies from one project stimulate investigations in another. In the reciprocity of our teaching and practice, opportunities for delight and discovery are revealed.

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The Porch: Urban, Aquatic, and Crystaline
Drifting Symmetries: Projects, Provocations, and Other Enduring Models
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The Porch: Urban, Aquatic, and Crystaline
Our work focuses on creating liminal spaces that mediate boundaries: public and private, inside and outside, architecture and landscape, intimate and generous. The nature of the porch in its broadest definition is where thresholds and interfaces create new opportunities for environmental and social resilience.
Drifting Symmetries: Projects, Provocations, and Other Enduring Models
Weiss/Manfredi's first book in a decade, Drifting Symmetries synthesizes project and precedent to construct more resilient settings for contemporary life