Thursday, May 17, 2007
Alumna and Partner Win Prestigious Design Awards
Marion Weiss (BSArch’79) and Michael Manfredi of the New York City-based firm Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism
received the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s 9th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design and will be receiving a 2007 Honor Award from the American Society of Lansdscape Architects in recognition of the excellence of their design for the Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park.
Weiss/Manfredi describes the project as “a new model for an urban sculpture park … located on a industrial site at the water’s edge. The design creates a continuous constructed landscape for art, forms an uninterrupted Z-shaped ‘green’ platform, and descends 40 feet from the city to the water, capitalizing on views of the skyline and Elliot Bay and rising over the existing infrastructure to reconnect the urban core to the revitalized waterfront.”
Marion Weiss is the Graham Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn School of Design. Weiss/Manfredi gave a Dean’s Forum Lecture in 2005 and they were the first Michael Owen Jones Memorial lecturers at the U.Va. School of Architecture in 1993.