Italian/American, b. 1953
Michael A. Manfredi is the co-founder of WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, a multidisciplinary design practice based in New York City.
WEISS/MANFREDI is at the forefront of architectural design practices that are redefining the relationships between landscape, architecture, infrastructure, and art. Award-winning projects such as the Olympic Sculpture Park, Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park, University of Pennsylvania’s Nanotechnology Center, Barnard College’s Diana Center, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center construct reciprocal relationships between city and nature, architecture and infrastructure. Current projects include a mixed-use building for MIT’s Kendall Urban Square Initiative, the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre at the University of Toronto, the Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale University, a master plan for the Artis—Naples Cultural Campus, and the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India.
Manfredi was born in Trieste, Italy and grew up in Rome. He received his Master of Architecture at Cornell University, where he studied with Colin Rowe. He is a founding member of the Van Alen Institute, a board member of the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and fellow of the Urban Design Forum.
Manfredi has taught at Cornell, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and most recently as the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University. He has been honored with the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture, Academy Award for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices Award, Harvard’s International VR Green Urban Design Award, and the New York AIA Gold Medal of Honor. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
WEISS/MANFREDI is at the forefront of architectural design practices that are redefining the relationships between landscape, architecture, infrastructure, and art. Award-winning projects such as the Olympic Sculpture Park, Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park, University of Pennsylvania’s Nanotechnology Center, Barnard College’s Diana Center, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center construct reciprocal relationships between city and nature, architecture and infrastructure. Current projects include a mixed-use building for MIT’s Kendall Urban Square Initiative, the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre at the University of Toronto, the Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale University, a master plan for the Artis—Naples Cultural Campus, and the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India.
Manfredi was born in Trieste, Italy and grew up in Rome. He received his Master of Architecture at Cornell University, where he studied with Colin Rowe. He is a founding member of the Van Alen Institute, a board member of the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and fellow of the Urban Design Forum.
Manfredi has taught at Cornell, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and most recently as the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University. He has been honored with the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture, Academy Award for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices Award, Harvard’s International VR Green Urban Design Award, and the New York AIA Gold Medal of Honor. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
