Marion Weiss

Biography

B.S. Arch., University of Virginia
M.Arch., Yale University

Teaches design studios and courses on representation and urbanism. In private practice with Weiss/Manfredi Architects New York City; her firm 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, winner of a national competition and Progressive Architecture Award, was featured in the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition, "Groundswell: Designing the Contemporary Landscape". The sculpture park, which opens in the fall of 2006, was also exhibited in "Inhabiting Infrastructure" and "Cities: 10 Lines, approaches to City and Open Territory Design", both at the Harvard GSD. The park will also be featured at the Center for Design in Essen, Germany. Her firm's competition-winning project for 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 AIA projects honor award. Other competitions won by her firm include the Women's Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery and the Olympia Fields Park and Community Center in Illinois; both received National AIA honor awards and I.D. Magazine environment awards.

Her firm's recently completed Whitney Center, a retreat for the United Nations, was inaugurated in May 2006 with a conference hosted by Kofi Annan. Other recent projects include the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY, the new campus center for Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and the Robinhood Library for P.S. 42 in Queens, New York. The firm's work was has won numerous awards and was featured in the Cooper Hewitt Museum's Design Triennial; a monograph on their work, Site Specific, was published by Princeton Architectural Press.

She has lectured recently at the Cooper Union, Yale University, Harvard University, the Architectural League, the Chicago Art Institute, and the National Building Museum. Her spring 2006 studio on New Orleans, "Resilient Topographies", was selected for exhibition in the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale.