Marion Weiss Architect

Marion weiss architect Marion weiss is graham professor of practice in architecture at the weitzman school and principal at weiss manfredi and was the keynote speaker at the 2017 symposium re form.

Marion weiss architect. In the interview weiss discusses her long career in academia and practice how she came to study architecture her designs for the women s memorial in washington d c and how teaching and practice influence one another. 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. A decade earlier she and her partner and husband michael manfredi had enjoyed a speedy rise to prominence when as two. Marion weiss is the graham professor of practice in architecture at the university of pennsylvania and co founder of weiss manfredi.

Keep exploring architizer by creating a free account or logging in. Marion weiss design studios at penn investigate the synthetic design potential intrinsic to infrastructural social and ecological challenges. At yale she won the american institute of. The architect marion weiss co founder of weiss manfredi and the graham professor of practice at the stuart weitzman school of design at the university of pennsylvania presented some of her firm s standout projects that blend architecture landscape and urbanism as part of the surface summer school lecture series.

Kent state center for architecture and environmental design. Daniels school of architecture at the university of toronto february 2013. It was the summer of 2001 and the architect marion weiss was out of ideas.