Michael Manfredi will present a lecture titled “Inhabiting Topography” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, at Hembree Auditorium (Agricultural, Food, and Life Sciences Building, Room 107E) on the University of Arkansas campus, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture lecture series.

The public is invited to attend this lecture, which is presented by the Fay Jones School of Architecture.

Manfredi has been the Gensler Visiting Professor at Cornell University and is cofounder of Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, a multidisciplinary design practice based in New York.

Known for the integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape, his firm won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award for Architecture, AIA New York’s Gold Medal, and the Architectural League of New York’s “Emerging Voices” award, acknowledging the distinct vision of the firm. The work of his firm has been presented and exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Design Centre in Essen, Germany, the National Building Museum, and the Louvre Museum.

In addition to teaching at Cornell, he has taught design studios at Harvard University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. He is a founding board member of the Van Alen Institute and is currently a board member for the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City.

Their Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum, winner of an international competition, was awarded Harvard University’s Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, the first United States project to receive this award. Their Diana Center, an arts building at Barnard College in New York, won a 2011 Honor Award for Architecture from the American Institute of Architects, and it was chosen Best Building in New York State in the 2010 AIA New York State Design Awards.

Weiss/Manfredi recently won a national competition to redesign the Washington Monument Grounds at Sylvan Theater and their Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center recently opened to the public.

Their most recent monograph, Weiss/Manfredi Surface/Subsurface, was published by Princeton Architectural Press.

This is the Charles Thompson Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Cromwell Architects Engineers.

Admission is free, with limited seating.