Marion Weiss
Cofounder WEISS/MANFREDI and Graham Chair Professor of Practice, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Last updated: August 19, 2024 Philadelphia, PA, USA
She has taught design studios at Harvard University, Yale University, Cornell University, and since 1991 has been a faculty member at Penn's Weitzman School of Design where she leads research studios on the intersection of infrastructural, social, and ecological challenges.
WEISS/MANFREDI won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award for Architecture in recognition of the strong personal direction of their work. Her Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum was featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, Groundswell: Designing the Contemporary Landscape.
The Barnard College Nexus, a new multi-use arts building in New York city, was featured in the Architects Newspaper issue on innovation and glass, and won an American Institute of Architects (AIA) projects honor award. Weiss/Manfredi have won competitions including the Women’s Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, and the Olympia Fields Park and Community Center in Illinois. Her spring 2006 studio on New Orleans, Resilient Topographies, was selected for exhibition in the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Maron Weiss studied architecture at the University of Virginia and Yale University.
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