2021 Design Day
GUEST SPEAKERS: Michael Manfredi
Marion Weiss
WEISS / MANFREDI
Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Credits: 1 LU (pending)
Cost: $10 AIA Member
$5 AIA Associate Member
$50 Non-AIA Member
$0 Student
Sponsorships Available
Lecture: Current Work: Predicaments and Potentials
Michael Manfredi and Marion Weiss are sharing current work that transcends the limits of the singular archi- tectural object, looking instead for opportunities to create connections and invent new territories for public life.
Speakers:
Marion Weiss is cofounder of WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism based in New York City and the Graham Chair Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2017, Marion was honored by Architectural Record with the Women in Architecture Design Leader Award. Her multidisciplinary firm operates at the nexus of architecture, art, landscape, and urban design. Her firm’s Olympic Sculpture Park exemplifies this cross disciplinary design approach, and the project has been recognized internationally through museum exhibitions and design awards. Time Magazine identified the park as one of the top 10 projects in the world, Barcelona’s World Architecture Festival selected the project as winner in the Nature Category, I.D. Magazine awarded it the highest Environment Design Award, and it was the first project in North America to win Harvard University’s Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design.
Michael Manfredi is cofounder of WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism based in New York City and is currently a Senior Design Critic at Harvard University. His multidisciplinary firm is at the forefront of architectural design practices that are redefining the relationships between landscape, architecture, infrastructure, and art. The Olympic Sculpture Park exemplifies this cross disciplinary design approach, and the project has been recognized internationally through museum exhibitions and design awards. Time Magazine identified the park as one of the top 10 projects in the world, the World Architecture Festival selected the project as winner in the Nature Category, I.D. Magazine awarded it the highest Environment Design Award, and it was the first project in North America to win Harvard University’s Veronica Rudge Green Prize.
2021 AIA New Jersey Award Winners
MERIT AWARD
UNBUILT CATEGORY
Project: Semiconductor Research Center
Firm: HDR
Project: Mayo Clinic
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INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Project: Blue Foundry Bank Corporate Headquarters
Firm: DMR Architects
Project: Bristol Myers Squibb Buildings M&N
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Project: SUNY College of Optometry, Pediatric Optometry Suite
Firm: NK Architects
INSTALLATION SCULPTURE OR FURNITURE PIECE
Project: Point of Action
Firm: Studio Cooke John
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Project: Historic Facade Restoration of 555 West End Avenue
Firm: CTS GROUP Architecture/Planning, PA
RESIDENTIAL
Project: Sea Bright House
Firm: Jeff Jordan Architect
Project: The Lively
Firm: Fogarty Finger Architecture
REGIONAL AND URBAN DESIGN
Project: Essex Market
Firm: Hugh A. Boyd Architects
Project: Rutgers University-Newark: Honors Living-Learning Community
Firm: Perkins Eastman
OPEN CATEGORY
Project: Kean University, Liberty Hall Academic Center
Firm: NK Architects
Project: National Purple Heart Hall of Honor
Firm: ikon.5 architects
HONOR AWARD
HISTORIC PRESERVATION CATEGORY
Project: Exterior Restoration of Stuart Hall at Princeton Theological Seminary
Firm: Historic Building Architects, LLC
OPEN CATEGORY
Project: Japan Solderless Technology Production Center
Firm: Arcari Iovino Architects
Project: Kean University Skylands Campus, New Academic Building
Firm: NK Architects
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Firm: ikon.5 architects
