Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi

Marion Weiss

Co-founder of WEISS/MANFREDI; Graham Chair Professor of Practice, University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design

Michael Manfredi

Co-founder of WEISS/MANFREDI; Senior Design Critic and Expert in Residence, Harvard University

WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, is at the forefront of architectural design practices that are redefining relationships between architecture, landscape, infrastructure, and urban ecologies. Founded by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, their firm’s noted projects include the competition-winning Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, recognized by Time Magazine as one the “top ten architectural marvels” and by Architectural Record as one of “the most significant works that defined architecture in our era.” Their firm’s hybrid architecture and landscape projects include the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center, Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park, and the Women’s Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.

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