Weiss/Manfredi

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Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi established Weiss/Manfredi in New York. Known for their integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design, they were awarded a 2004 Academy Award in Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and were named one of six “critical emerging practices” in North America by the Architectural League of New York. Their work has won numerous awards as well as national and international design competitions.

Recently completed projects include the award winning Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, New York and the Smith College Campus Center in Northampton, Massachusetts. Other completed projects include the competition winning Olympia Fields Park and Community Center and the Women’s Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. Current projects include the Greentree Foundation’s Center for Peace in New York, the Nexus Building, a new library and student center at Barnard College in New York City, and the Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum, winner of a Progressive Architecture Award

Their work has been featured in numerous publications, books, and exhibitions including the Venice Architectural Biennale, the Sao Paolo Bienal of International Architecture and Design and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s “Design Culture Now” triennial. Princeton Architectural Press published a monograph titled Site Specific: The Work of Weiss/Manfredi

Marion Weiss received her Master of Architecture at Yale University and her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia. At Yale she won the American Institute of Architects Scholastic Award and the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Traveling Fellowship. She is currently an associate professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.  

Michael Manfredi was born in Trieste, Italy, came to the United States and received his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame. A winner of the Paris Prize, he studied with Colin Rowe at Cornell University where he received his Master of Architecture. There he received the Eidlitz Award and was a Cornell University Fellow. He has been a visiting critic at numerous institutions and is currently a trustee of the Van Alen Institute.