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Book cover for 'Drifting Symmetries' featuring a landscape photograph of a winding river through forested terrain with blue water reflections, designed by Weiss/Manfredi.
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Marion Weiss

ArchitectCultural & CivicLandscape

Co-founder & Partner at WEISS/MANFREDI

Marion Weiss is co-founder of WEISS/MANFREDI, the New York architecture, landscape, and urban design practice she formed with Michael Manfredi in 1989 after winning the competition for the Women's Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia and a graduate degree from Yale School of Architecture, and is the Graham Professor of Practice in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. The firm's work includes Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park and Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park in Queens.

Experience

  1. Co-founder & Partner

    WEISS/MANFREDI

    1989 – present

    Current

  2. Partner and Cofounder

    WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism

    Current

Past projects

  1. Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum

    2007

    Cultural · Seattle, WA

    Competition-winning project widely cited as WEISS/MANFREDI's signature work.

  2. Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park

    Landscape · Long Island City, NY

    Major NYC waterfront park designed by the firm.

  3. Barnard College Diana Center

    2010

    Institutional · New York, NY

Awards & press

  • 2024 Louis I. Kahn Award

    2024

  • 2020 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture

    Thomas Jefferson Foundation · 2020

  • 2018 Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Institution's National Design Award

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Institution · 2018

  • New York AIA Gold Medal

    New York AIA

  • Academy Award in Architecture

    American Academy of Arts and Letters

  • 2025 Interior Design Hall of Fame

    Interior Design · 2025

  • Popular Choice Architizer A+ Award

    Architizer · Longwood Gardens West Conservatory

  • 2025 ULI Americas Award of Excellence

    Urban Land Institute · 2025 · Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park

Education

  • Yale University

    M.Arch

Selected work

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