Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Diller Scofidio + Renfro is an American interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the visual arts, and the performing arts. Based in New York City, Diller Scofidio + Renfro is led by four partners - Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro, and Benjamin Gilmartin - who work with a staff of architects, artists, designers, and researchers.

History
The studio was founded by Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio in 1981; Charles Renfro joined in 1997 and became partner in 2004. Benjamin Gilmartin became a partner in 2015.

In 1999, the MacArthur Foundation honored the firm's work with the 'genius' award, stating that they "have created an alternative form of architectural practice that unites design, performance, and electronic media with cultural and architectural theory and criticism. Their work explores how space functions in our culture and illustrates that architecture, when understood as the physical manifestation of social relationships, is everywhere, not just in buildings."

Work
Diller Scofidio + Renfro's international body of completed architectural work includes the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Redevelopment in New York (including the redesign of Alice Tully Hall), the renovation and expansion of the Juilliard School, the Hypar Pavilion Lawn and Restaurant, the expansion of the School of American Ballet, renovations to the New York State Theater lobby, the canopy entry to Fashion Week at Lincoln Center, public spaces throughout the campus, Information Landscape, and the President's Bridge.

Selected work
• Blur, a pavilion built of fog on Lake Neuchâtel and commissioned by the Swiss Expo.02, (2002)
• Slither, a housing complex in Gifu, Japan (2003)
• Institute of Contemporary Art, the first new museum to be built in Boston in 100 years (2006)
• Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts for Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (2011)
• The Shed, a cultural center in Hudson Yards, New York, New York (2019)
• The Broad, a major modern art museum in Los Angeles;

Projects in construction or in design include:

• the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Expansion in New York City;
• Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, Berkeley;
• Columbia University Medical Center Education Building and Columbia Business School in New York City; the Museum of Image & Sound on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro;
• Stanford University Art & Art History Building;
• D Tower ("The Corset") at 15 Hudson Yards, residential tower for Related Companies, part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project in New York City

In 2013 Diller Scofidio + Renfro won the international design competition for Zaryadye Park, a new 35-acre public space next to the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.

Installation and performance projects
Installation and performance projects recently completed include: The Art of Scent 1889-2010, an exhibition of olfactory art at the Museum of Arts and Design; Open House, an installation in Levittown in collaboration with Droog; How Wine Became Modern for SFMOMA; Be Your Self with the Australian Dance Theatre; the Exit (Terre Natale) exhibition for the Fondation Cartier, also presented at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP15) in Copenhagen; Traveling Music for Evento 2009 in Bordeaux; Chain City for the 2008 Venice Biennale 11th International Architecture Exhibition; Arbores Laetae for the 2008 Liverpool Biennial; Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? for the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Turin; and Action Painting for the Beyeler Museum in Basel.

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