​Weiss/Manfredi​ takes home the 37th Louis I. Kahn Award

Weiss/Manfredi has been named as the winner of the 37th Louis I. Kahn Award. The New York-based studio was formed by husband and wife duo Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi in 1989 and has since impacted the profession through an award-winning portfolio of cultural, higher-ed, urban design, and institutional projects that have garnered the New York AIA Gold Medal, a 2018 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, and several other leading honors.

Recently the firm has completed projects for MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. A $65 million expansion of the Tampa Museum of Art will be completed later this year, joined by the 17-acre Longwood Gardens Conservatory regeneration in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in the fall. Their design for the new U.S. Embassy in New Delhi is also advancing towards completion in 2027. A master-planned redesign of the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum will follow the next year, in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics & Paralympics in Los Angeles.

The firm's work has likewise been featured in exhibitions at institutions in New York and around the world, including the MoMA, Guggenheim Museum, the National Building Museum, Essen Design Centre, the Louvre, and the 2018 Venice Biennale. 

"Architecture, which benefits from intensity and focus, will never be easily slotted in the nine-to-five day. If support systems can evolve and grow, I think the potential for new models of leadership will continue to expand to include an even more diverse community," Weiss said in a retrospective 2019 interview with the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.

Weiss and Manfredi both will now speak at a ceremony benefitting the renamed DesignPhiladelphia's K-12 design education programming on Wednesday, April 3rd. 

The duo follows Herzog & de Meuron, KieranTimberlake, and Diller Scofido + Renfro as the four most recent recipients of the award, which was founded in 1983 to honor the late modernist's impact on the built environment in Philadelphia and beyond.