Architecture

The Dallas Architecture Forum has announced its 13th season of lectures opening with New York architects Marion WEISS and Michael MANFREDI on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. at the Magnolia Theatre,3699 McKinney Ave. in Uptown Dallas. Single tickets, available at the door only, are $20 for general admission and $5 for students with I.D. Dallas Architecture Forum members are admitted for free. Thereception begins at 6 p.m. For more information, call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org. Images are available upon request via Lisa Taylor at Taylor-Made Press, 214-943-1099 [email protected].

Marion WEISS + Michael MANFREDI

Architects, New York
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi are partners in the New York based firm Weiss/Manfredi, apractice committed to the dynamic integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design. They received the 2004 Academy Award in Architecture, an award given annually by the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters acknowledging the unique vision of the firm. They were also named one of North America’s “Emerging Voices” by the Architectural League of New York and in 2007 their firm wonthe New York City AIA Gold Medal of Honor.

Their recent Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum was a winner of an international competition and was recently recognized as Best in Categoryby the I.D. Magazine Environments Design Awards. The project won a Progressive Architecture Award, multiple AIA Awards, an ASLA Honor Award, the EDRA Places Award, and was the first North Americanproject to be awarded Harvard University’s International Veronica Green Prize in Urban Design.

Current projects include the Barnard College Nexus,a multi-use arts center, and winner of an invitedcompetition and a 2008 Progressive Architecture Award; the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center, which will achieve LEED Gold certification; the University of Virginia’s new Arts Gateway Building,…