11/8 Architectural League NY lecture: Weiss/Manfredi · Oct 30, 09:42 AM
Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington
Architectural League New York lecture
Current Work: Weiss/Manfredi
Thursday, November 8
7:00 p.m.
Donnell Auditorium
20 West 53rd Street
Admission is free for League members and $10 for non-members. League members may make reservations by emailing rsvp@archleague.org or by calling 212-980-3767. AIA and New York State continuing education credits are available.
Coming from PA PRESS in December 2007
Weiss/Manfredi’s recently completed Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum embodies the New York firm’s focus on the integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design. The award-winning park knits together three sites adjacent to Puget Sound, successfully establishing “connections where separations existed, inventing a setting that brings art, city and sound together…” Current work includes The Nexus, an arts center for Barnard College; the Arts Gateway museum, theater, and residential complex at the University of Virginia; and the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Visitors Center.
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi received the 2004 Academy Award in Architecture, an award given annually by the American Academy of Arts and Letters acknowledging the unique vision of the firm. They were also named one of North America’s “Emerging Voices” by the Architectural League of New York and in 2007 their firm won the gold medal for AIA New York.
The monograph, Site Specific: the Work of Weiss/Manfredi Architects, features their cross-disciplinary projects in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design and a new monograph, Surface/Subsurface, will be published this December.
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