Architects discuss building around urban environment, natural terrain
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi spoke in Perloff Hall for this year's Richard Weinstein Lecture
WEISS/MANFREDI is a multidisciplinary, New York City-based design practice that combines landscape, architecture, infrastructure, and art. On Monday, Nov, 26, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, co-founders of WEISS?MANFREDI spoke at Perloff Hall as this year's Richard Weinstein Lecture speakers.
"The environments in which architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi spent their childhoods shaped their future work: the hilly California topography that surrounded Weiss and the measured balance between architecture and open space that characterized Manfredi’s home in Rome.“The places that we grew up were so tied inextricably to landforms and landscapes that we couldn’t imagine it being any other way,” Weiss said.
The founders of the design practice WEISS/MANFREDI gave a lecture Monday night as part of the UCLA Architecture and Urban Design 2018-2019 lecture series. Their presentation was selected as the Richard Weinstein Lecture, which is given once a year in honor of the former dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning. In Perloff Hall, Weiss and Manfredi detailed several of the projects they worked on as well as their interest in fusing components of the localecology, culture, infrastructure and architecture in each one. They also addressed the role of climate change and disaster management, particularly flooding, in their design process.
“Our realization is that these major problems can’t just be solved by architecture or landscape architecture or engineering, but really need to be solved comprehensively,” Manfredi said." — Linda Xu, Nov. 27, 2018
This article originally appeared on the Daily Bruin website.
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