Weiss/Manfredi: Surface/Subsurface

About this book

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 projects that have been completed since Site Specific their first monograph published in 2000. Their design processexemplary of the best contemporary architectural practicesreveals potential in subsurface conditions with the goal of generating an entirely new language for the surface. Projects include the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle wanders over a highway and train lines; the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca New York manipulates the movement of water cars and visitors; and the Smith College Campus Center in Northampton Massachusetts transforms the brick campus into a luminous terracotta surface. Each project is fully documented through project photographs drawings details and texts.