1. weiss/manfredi

2. marion weiss
Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Virginia
Masters of Architecture from Yale University
Currently a professor of architecture at the University of
Pennsylvania’s Penn School of Design
michael manfredi
Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame
Masters of Architecture from Cornell University
Visiting critic and professor at Yale and Princeton and has
been a Gensler Visiting professor at Cornell University

3. IDEALS

4. PERIPHERAL
VISION
+ cross fertilization
of disciplines
“Heightened disciplinary distinctions between architecture, art,
landscape architecture, engineering, and urban planning
marginalize the status of the architectural project, precluding new
paradigms for contemporary settings.”
- Weiss + Manfredi

5. PERIPHERAL
VISION
+ cross fertilization
of disciplines
“Heightened disciplinary distinctions between architecture, art,
landscape architecture, engineering, and urban planning
marginalize the status of the architectural project, precluding new
paradigms for contemporary settings.”
- Weiss + Manfredi

6. ARCHITECTURE is
always tied
to the LANDSCAPE.
LANDSCAPE not only means the physical landscape (topography, geography)
but the cultural and historical landscapes that the site may exist on

7. ARCHITECTURE is
always tied
to the LANDSCAPE.
LANDSCAPE not only means the physical landscape (topography, geography)
but the cultural and historical landscapes that the site may exist on

8. DISCIPLINE OVERLAP
helps further
DESIGN as a whole.
“Architecture can be Informed by the friction, the resistance and the
unexpected pleasures and surprises found when different disciplines overlap”
- Michael Manfredi

9. DISCIPLINE OVERLAP
helps further
DESIGN as a whole.
“Architecture can be Informed by the friction, the resistance and the
unexpected pleasures and surprises found when different disciplines overlap”
- Michael Manfredi

10. DISCIPLINE OVERLAP
helps further
DESIGN as a whole.
“Architecture can be Informed by the friction, the resistance and the
unexpected pleasures and surprises found when different disciplines overlap”
- Michael Manfredi

11. history
ethography
PERIPHERAL
Questions VISION
Strategies urbanism
is revaluated
through
synthesizes to form
IDEAS
engineering
synthesizes to form
topography
& DISCOVERIES challenges the
perceptions of the
disciplines that make up
art
architecture
exposes
FORM

12. olympic
sculpture park
“Our ambition was to create connections where
seperations existed, illuminating the immeasurable
power of an invented setting to bring together art,
city and water - implicitly questioning where the park
begins and where the art ends”
- Marion Weiss + Michael Manfredi

13. history
ethography
PERIPHERAL
How is the land linked with
the history?
How do you create an over-
arching design strategy that is
Questions VISION
a resilient framework for
change?
Strategies urbanism
is revaluated
Art eludes definition; create through
synthesizes to form
multiple settings
Expand the territory of art;
IDEAS
embrace the city engineering
synthesizes to form
topography
& DISCOVERIES challenges the
perceptions of the
Process Forms: disciplines that make up
art
Z-Ramp
architecture
Olympic
Sculpture Park
exposes
FORM

27. “We design to clarify the
physical and cultural identity of
each project, opportunistically
integrating multiple disciplines
and alternative methodologies
to create meaningful settings. ”
- Marion Weiss + Michael Manfredi

28. bibliography
Weiss, M., Manfredi, M. (2002, February). National Building Museum Spotlight on Design.
Retrieved on September 22, 2008, from http://www.nbm.org/media/audio/weissmanfredi-architects.html
Weiss, M., Manfredi, M. (2008, January). Berlage Institute, Surface/Subsurface: Olympic Sculpture Park.
Retrieved on September 24, 2008, from http://www.berlage-institute.nl/05_events/VideoOnDemand/WeissManfredi0108.html
Weiss, M., Manfredi, M. (2000). Site Specific: Princeton Architectural Press.
Busquets, J., Leers, A., Manfredi, M., Weiss, M., Zaradini, M. (2008) Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum.
Harvard College.