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The Architects

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 its integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design. Interdisciplinary projects such as the firm's competition-winning Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Harvard University, and the Design Center in Essen, Germany.

The firm has won numerous national and international design competitions and has been featured in national and international publications. It has also had exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Venice Architectural Biennale, the Sao Paolo Biennale of International Architecture and Design, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's "Design Culture Now" Triennial, and the National Building Museum. It was awarded the Academy Award for Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and were named "an emerging voice" by the Architectural League of New York. Princeton Architectural Press also published a monograph entitled Site Specific: The Work of Weiss/Manfredi Architects.

Marion Weiss

Marion Weiss is the Graham Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn School of Design. She teaches design studios and seminars on the intersection of architecture, art, urbanism, and landscape. She received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Virginia and her Master of Architecture from Yale University. At Yale, she won the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Traveling Fellowship and the American Institute of Architects Scholastic Award, and following graduation, she won the AAUW National Emerging Scholar Award. She was a Gensler Visiting Critic at Cornell University and has also taught design studios at Yale University.

Michael Manfredi

Michael Manfredi was born in Trieste, Italy, and received his Bachelor of Architecture from 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 Eiditz Award and was a Cornell University Fellow. He has been a visiting critic and professor at numerous institutions, including Yale and Princeton, and has been a Gensler Visiting Professor at Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a trustee and founding member of the Van Alen Institute, and a trustee of the Storefront for Art and Architecture.

Consulting Team