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Weiss/Manfredi

Weiss/Manfredi is a multidisciplinary New York City-based design practice that combines landscape, architecture, infrastructure, and art.[1] The firm's notable projects include the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center, the Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech, the Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania, the Museum of the Earth, the Embassy of the United States, New Delhi, and Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Weiss/Manfredi
Practice information
FoundersMarion Weiss
Michael Manfredi
Founded1989
LocationNew York City, U.S.
Significant works and honors
ProjectsTata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center
Museum of the Earth
Olympic Sculpture Park
Women in Military Service for America Memorial
Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park
Barnard College Diana Center
Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology
AwardsAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Architecture
Architectural League Emerging Voices Award
New York AIA Gold Medal of Honor
New York AIA President’s Award
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture Design
Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
Website
weissmanfredi.com

History

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Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi met in the late 1980s while working for Mitchel Giurgola Architects, LLP. In 1989, after both had left the firm and were working architecture professors, Weiss and Manfredi entered a design competition for the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, which they eventually won,[8] and founded Weiss/Manfredi.[9][10][11] Prior to founding the firm, 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. In 2017, she was selected for Architectural Records's Women in Architecture Design Leader Award.[12] Marion Weiss is the Graham Professor of Practice in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.[13]

Manfredi received his Master of Architecture at Cornell University where he studied with Colin Rowe. He won the Paris Prize, was selected as a Cornell Fellow, and was awarded an Eidlitz Fellowship.[14] Both Weiss and Manfredi are National Academy inductees and fellows of the American Institute of Architects.[15]

Weiss/Manfredi has received an Academy Award for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Architectural League Emerging Voices award, the New York AIA Gold Medal of Honor, the New York AIA President’s Award, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture Design, and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.[16]

Notable projects

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Weiss/Manfredi's design was chosen for the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, New York. The project was completed in 2003,[17] and in 2004 won an American Institute of Architects (AIA) Excellence in Design Award and an Honor Award for Architecture.[16]


The firm's design for the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park, awarded by international competition, was completed in 2007. It was recognized as the 'Nature' category winner at the World Architecture Festival;[18] it also won the I.D. Magazine Environments 'Best in Category' Design Award in 2008,[19] a Progressive Architecture Award, multiple AIA Awards, an ASLA Honor Award, the EDRA Places Award, and was the first North American project to be awarded Harvard University’s International Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design.[20][21][22] The firm's design for The Diana Center, a multi-use arts building at Barnard College won a national design competition and a Progressive Architecture Award.[23] Upon its completion in 2010, the Diana Center also won the New York State AIA Best Building Award as well as a National AIA Honor Award.[24][25]

In 2012, Weiss/Manfredi won a national competition to redesign the Washington Monument Grounds at the National Sylvan Theater.[26] The work of Weiss/Manfredi also includes the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center,[5] the University of Pennsylvania Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology,[27] Kent State University Center for Architecture and Environmental Design,[28] the Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech,[29][6] a Visitor and Reception Pavilion and Oncology building for Novartis,[30][31] and Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park. In 2015, they were commissioned by the Department of State to design the United States Embassy in New Delhi.[4][32][7]

Exhibitions

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The firm's work has been exhibited internationally including the "Groundswell" show at The Museum of Modern Art.[33] Their work has also been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the National Building Museum, Max Protetch Gallery, Harvard University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, the Van Alen Institute, the Architectural League of New York, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Essen Germany Design Center, the São Paulo International Biennial, the European Landscape Biennial, and the Venice Architecture Biennale.[34]

Other activities

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Weiss is the Graham Chair Professor of Architecture and tenured faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and has also taught design studios at Harvard University, Cornell University and Yale University as the Eero Saarinen visiting professor.[35] Manfredi is a Senior Design Critic at Harvard University, a founding board member of the Van Alen Institute, and a board member for the Storefront for Art and Architecture.[36] He has also taught design studios at Yale University as the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.[37]

Bibliography

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  • Weiss, M.; M. Manfredi (2000). Site Specific: The Work of Weiss/Manfredi Architects. USA: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1-56898-208-9.
  • Weiss, M.; M. Manfredi (2007). Weiss/Manfredi: Surface/Subsurface. USA: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-733-0.
  • Weiss, M.; J. Busquets (2008). Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum:Weiss/Manfredi. USA: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. ISBN 978-1934510049.
  • Weiss, M.; J. Busquets; M. Mostafavi; E. Blau; C. Reed; I. Klein (2011). Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project in Seoul. USA: Harvard Graduate School of Design. ISBN 978-1934510315.
  • Weiss, M.; M. Manfredi (2012). Pro Architect:Weiss/Manfredi. South Korea: Archiworld. ISBN 978-8957703809.
  • Weiss, M.; M. Manfredi (2015). Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructure. USA: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1616893774.
  • Weiss, M.; M. Manfredi (2016). Converging Territories: Island Incubator. USA: Yale School of Architecture. ISBN 978-1945150241.

References

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  1. ^ "A Home Designed to Be Barely There". Wall Street Journal.
  2. ^ Miner, Kelly (January 6, 2011). "Olympic Sculpture Park/Weiss Manfredi". ArchDaily. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
  3. ^ Bernstein, Fred (August 31, 2012). "AD Innovator: Weiss/Manfredi". Architectural Digest. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
  4. ^ a b Rosenfield, Karissa (August 5, 2015). "Weiss/Manfredi to Re-envision India's US Embassy". ArchDaily. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  5. ^ a b Nobel, Philip (May 8, 2012). "At Garden's Visitor Center, A Welcome Transparency". The New York Times. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  6. ^ a b "Cornell Tech Inaugurates Tata Innovation Center". Cornell Chronicle. December 4, 2017. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  7. ^ a b Warekar, Tanay. "In Long Island City, second phase of Hunter's Point South waterfront park debuts".
  8. ^ Anderson, Lamar (March 20, 2014). "Marion Weiss Aims to Collapse the 'Hero Architect' Trope". Curbed. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
  9. ^ Osborne, Catherine (October 24, 2013). "Architect Marion Weiss on Designing for Disaster". AZURE. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  10. ^ Davidson, Justin (June 16, 2013). "Mr. & Mrs. Architect". New York Magazine. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
  11. ^ "Weiss/Manfredi Fuse Nature and Urbanity". The Plan. March 2014. Archived from the original on December 28, 2015. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
  12. ^ Keller, Hadley (August 23, 2017). "Architectural Record Names Its 2017 Women in Architecture Award Winners". Architectural Digest. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  13. ^ "Marion Weiss | Weitzman". www.design.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  14. ^ Michael Manfredi
  15. ^ WEISS / MANFREDI awards
  16. ^ a b "Awards". Weiss/Manfredi. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  17. ^ Cilento, Karen (December 20, 2010). "Museum of Earth/ Weiss Manfredi". ArchDaily. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  18. ^ "Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, United States of America". World Buildings Directory. Archived from the original on 17 December 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
  19. ^ "Nature Category Winner 2008". World Architecture Festival.[dead link‍]
  20. ^ "2007 General Design Honor Award". ASLA.
  21. ^ "Past Great Places Recipients". EDRA. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  22. ^ "Past Recipients". Urbandesignprize.org. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  23. ^ "Diana Center". Architect Magazine.
  24. ^ "AIANYS 2010 Design Awards". AIA.
  25. ^ "2011 AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture". AIA.
  26. ^ Welton, J. Michael (May 2, 2012). "Mall Design Contest Winners Named". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  27. ^ De Monchaux, Thomas (November 7, 2013). "Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology, Designed by Weiss/Manfredi". Architect Magazine. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  28. ^ Litt, Steven (August 24, 2016). "KSU's New Architecture School Building, Designed by Weiss/Manfredi, is a Dazzler". Cleveland.com. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  29. ^ "New York's Cornell Tech Campus Will Include Buildings by Morphosis and Weiss/Manfredi". Dezeen. June 18, 2015. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  30. ^ Stephens, Suzanne (July 16, 2014). "Visitor Reception Center". Architectural Record. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  31. ^ Stephens, Suzanne (July 16, 2014). "Building 335". Architectural Record. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  32. ^ "Projects". Weiss/Manfredi. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  33. ^ "Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape". MOMA.
  34. ^ "Weiss Manfredi Profile".
  35. ^ "Marion Weiss Biography". University of Pennsylvania School of Design.
  36. ^ "Faculty". Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  37. ^ "Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi: Eero Saarinen Visiting Professors". Yale School of Architecture. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
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