Marion Weiss : Liftoffs and landings (October 6, 2021)

Hernán Díaz Alonso welcomes the audience to SCI-Arc’s first in-person public lecture in seventeen months and introduces Marion Weiss, principal of Weiss/Manfredi.

Weiss discusses how, in a time of multiple crises, design should engage architectural and landscape infrastructure with clarity and openness.

She discusses several projects in detail:
•Olympic Sculpture Park
•Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center
•Robert Wilson Overlook
•Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
•Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech, Roosevelt Island
•Kent State Center for Architecture and Environmental Design
•Singh Center for Nanotechnology, University of Pennsylvania
•Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking, Yale University
•Baker Museum renovation and expansion
•Novartis Visitor Center
•U.S. Embassy New Delhi renovation,
•La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
•Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park