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Two Weiss/Manfredi projects were featured in the 4th Annual Seoul Biennale: Land Architecture, Land Urbanism.

In a virtual interview that follows their walking commute between their home and studio, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi gave The New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman a tour of the architecture and urban landscapes they appreciate along the way.

On April 20, 2020, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi gave a public, online lecture in honor of receiving the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture.

In the new issue of Cultured Magazine, Ian Volner interviews Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi at Weiss/Manfredi's studio in Tribeca.

As the city grapples with the anniversary of COVID-19's devastation, New York Magazine has asked artists and architects to translate their experiences of the lockdown into temporary installations.

As the city nears the 20th anniversary of 9/11, New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman quotes Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi on Lower Manhattan's regrowth

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi's essay "Evolutionary Infrastructures" is featured in Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary.

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi are featured in the Plan Magazine's "The Architects Series," highlighting the practice of prominent architects from around the world.

Weiss/Manfredi celebrates the early success of the Robert W. Wilson Overlook at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Recent coverage of large cities like New York suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn ire from critics who say that the crisis has exposed the unhealthy nature of urban life.

Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures explores the potential to shape a new public realm.

Michael Manfredi participated in a lecture held by the New York Institute of Technology, where he joined Paul Lewis, LTL Architects principal, in discussing the future of architecture practice for higher education.

The Barnard College Diana Center is featured in this volume on sustainable building published by Hi-Design Publishing and the Dalian University of Technology Press.

The Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture Park is featured on the cover and highlighted in the text of this Birkhäuser Architecture published book on ecologically-minded urban design projects.

For nearly two decades the architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi has practiced outside the traditional boundaries of architecture.

New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman wrote a story including a new Weiss/Manfredi project.

The February 2018 issue of Casabella includes "Weiss/Manfredi and the Design of Public Spaces."

Marion Weiss presented some of the firm's standout projects that blend architecture, landscape, and urbanism as part of the Surface Summer School lecture series.

A new book, Converging Territories: Island Incubator, was recently published by the Yale University School of Architecture.

As Emerging Voices winners in 1997, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi are featured in this edition published by the Architectural League looking back on 30 years of the award.

After New York City ordered many public playgrounds and parks to close amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi spoke with Architectural Record to address the importance public space plays in our collective psyche.

Interior Design Editor Cindy Allen interviewed Michael Manfredi and Marion Weiss as part of Sandow's new DesignTV programming, featured on Facebook Live.

Weiss/Manfredi team members leapt to action in support of first responders and health care workers in the New York City area when they joined the architecture industry-led initiative #OperationPPE

"Lines of Movement" puts forth an open-ended ideal that connects and extends the lines of landscape and infrastructure to shape a new architecture for public life.

That the architecture of Weiss/Manfredi resists stylistic or typological pigeonholing is a tribute not only to the variety of work the firm has completed, but also, more importantly, to the intelligence and sensitivity of their approach to design.

The Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture Park is featured in this book by Kenneth Frampton

This book brings together 24 provocative texts that collectively express the power and diversity of women's views on architecture today. This volume presents a dialogue among women historians, practitioners, theorists, and others concerned with critical issues in architecture and urbanism.

Weiss/Manfredi's Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture Park is featured in the exhibition "White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscape"

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi participated in The Plan Magazine's new video series, "The New Tomorrow."

In the Wall Street Journal, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi spoke with Fred Bernstein about the future of office space in a COVID-19 world.

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi were interviewed on the At A Distance podcast by Slowdown TV, hosted by Spencer Bailey and Andrew Zuckerman.

The Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture Park is featured in an essay by Stan Allen in Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain

This comprehensive and visually stunning publication dedicated to the Olympic Sculpture Park features Peter Reed in conversation with Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi

In this book edited by Mark Robbins, the Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture park is highlighted as part of three case studies exploring the National Endowment for the Arts' New Public Works program that sponsored design competitions across the country between 1999-2002.

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi delivered the keynote lecture, "Water, Landscape, and Architecture" at Villa Aurelia, preceding an April 18th conference at the American Academy in Rome.

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi spoke to Architect Magazine's Gideon Shapiro as a part of the "What's Next" series.

The Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture Park is featured in issue 161 of Lotus Magazine.

The Weiss/Manfredi-design Robin Hood Library at P.S. 42 in Far Rockaway, Queens is featured in this publication about Pro Bono projects by architects around the world.

In an interview and studio visit, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi discuss their architecture with Surface Magazine

A roundtable interview with Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi, Kenneth Frampton, and Justin Fowler is featured in this volume of essays honoring the English architect Kenneth Frampton.

the Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture park is featured in this MoMA Publication edited by Peter Reed, and corresponding to an exhibit at the museum.

The Weiss/Manfredi proposal for an Olympic Rowing Facility for the 2012 Olympics in Flushing Meadow, Queens is featured in this volume on "the best public space projects" by international designers.

In 2019, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi were awarded the Mercedes T. Bass Landscape Architects in Residence Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. During their stay, Weiss and Manfredi served as senior advisers to Rome Prize recipients and to other members of the Academy community, and lead Academy-wide events including concerts, exhibitions, studio visits, lectures, readings, and instructional walks through Rome.

Collage and Architecture is the first book to cover collage as a tool for design in architecture, making it a valuable resource for students and practitioners.

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi of WEISS/MANFREDI Architects delivered a lecture on resiliency in architecture for the 2020 Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) National Convention.

Visited annually by approximately thirty million people, the Mall is also a victim of its own success as its grounds and monuments have been steadily eroded by overcrowding in addition to budgetary and administrative pressures. In response to this decline, the newly-formed Trust for the National Mall recently sponsored a competition to redesign key areas of the National Mall.