UCLA AUD Fall 2024 Events: Marion Weiss

November 18, 2024, 5:30 pm, Perloff Hall Decafe

Marion Weiss is cofounder of WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism and the Graham Chair Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. She was honored by Architectural Record with the Women in Architecture Design Leader Award and is a recipient of the 2019 Residence Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Marion taught at Harvard Graduate School of Design and Cornell University, and she was the Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale University. Since 1991, Marion has been a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design where she leads cross-disciplinary research studios that explore productive connections between architecture, nature, and infrastructure to address pressing social and environmental challenges. Marion received her Master of Architecture at Yale University where she was awarded the AIA Scholastic Award and SOM’s Traveling Fellowship. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia where she received UVA’s 2020 Distinguished Alumnae Award for her achievements in architecture. She is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and was inducted into the National Academy of Design.