Weiss/Manfredi

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ISBN: 9781568987330
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Hardcover, 208 pages
27,9 x 22,9 cm
colour
March 2008
€45,00 (excl. VAT)

Weiss/Manfredi

Surface/Subsurface

Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi

For nearly two decades the architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi has practiced outside the traditional boundaries of architecture. Their work with complex sites and programs benefits from an interdisciplinary approach and a dynamic integration of architecture, art, infrastructure and landscape design. Surface/Subsurface presents nine major projects that have been completed since their first monograph, Site Specific, published in 2000.

Projects include the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, which wanders over a highway and train lines; the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, New York, which manipulates the movement of water, cars and visitors; and the Smith College Campus Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, which transforms the brick campus into a luminous terracotta surface. Each project is fully documented through project photographs, drawings, details and texts.