Diller Scofidio + Renfro

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Diller + Scofidio is an architecture firm from New York that has attracted widespread attention primarily due to those works that follow a decidedly artistic conception and often resemble installations .

Elizabeth Diller

Elizabeth Diller (* 1954 in Łódź , Poland ) is an American architect .

Diller first studied architecture at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York and received a Bachelor of Architecture Degree in 1979 . In the same year she founded the architecture office Diller + Scofidio together with Ricardo Scofidio , whom she met during her studies . From 1981 to 1991 Diller was a lecturer at the Cooper Union and has been a professor at Princeton University since 1990 . In 2004 Charles Renfro joined Diller and Scofidio's architectural office as a partner. For this reason the office, which at that time had 20 employees, was renamed Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS + R) . Today Diller lives and works with Scofidio in Chelsea (Manhattan) .

In 1999 she received a MacArthur Fellowship with Scofidio . She was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and a member of the National Academy of Design in 2011 .

Ricardo Scofidio

Ricardo Scofidio (* 1935 in New York City ) is an American architect .

Scofidio studied at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1960 . In 1965 Scofidio began his service as a professor of architecture at the Cooper Union and then met Elizabeth Diller . In 1979 they both founded the architecture firm Diller + Scofido . Today he lives and works with Diller in Chelsea (Manhattan) .

In 1999 he and Diller received a MacArthur Fellowship . In 2011 Ricardo Scofidio was elected member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design .

Projects

Blur Building at the Swiss National Exhibition 2002.

Together with Scofidio, Diller designs new and alternative architectural concepts. You do not concentrate exclusively on architecture, but also deal with various media and in particular with photography and video installations. Design elements are combined in a completely new way. Outstanding projects include Moving Target , a dance project from 1996 and the redesign of the Brasserie , a restaurant on the basement floor of the Seagram Building , which received the James Beard Foundation Award for the best new restaurant design in 2000. The Blur Building pavilion attracted worldwide attention at the Swiss National Exhibition in 2002 . The building envelope for this pavilion was created solely by finely sprayed water mist. For this design Diller and Scofidio received the Progressive Design Award . In 2006 the new building of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston was completed according to designs by Diller Scofidio + Renfro . In 2009 the office redesigned Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts as well as a section of the so-called High Line , a disused railway line.

In 2007, DS + R presented a previously unrealized design for a technologically highly complex eco-house.

The Broad Art Museum opened in Los Angeles in 2015 . In 2017, the office presented the design for the movable roofing of a park on the west side of Manhattan, entitled The Shed (German: Das Wetterdach). The Shed opened in New York in 2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/kuenstler/diller-scofidio/biografie/
  2. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "D" / Diller, Elizabeth, NA 2011 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 19, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  3. ↑ http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/dillerscofidio_bio.html
  4. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "S" / Scofidio, Ricardo, NA 2011 ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 19, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  5. ^ Diller Scofidio + Renfro. In: arch INFORM ; Retrieved December 14, 2009.
  6. ↑ Nicolai Ouroussoff, "Expansive Vistas Both Inside and Out," in: NY Times , December 8, 2006
  7. ↑ Nicolai Ouroussoff, "On the High Line, Solitude Is Pretty Crowded" , in: NY Times , December 24, 2006
  8. ^ Rainer Stadler: Summer house, much later . Ecological living does not automatically have to look like a wooden hut. Three architects are now planning a building that combines luxury and environmental awareness. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin . October 5, 2007.
  9. ↑ All wheels turn still when the strong house wants it , in: FAZ of October 25, 2017, p. 11

literature

  • Antonello Marotta, "Diller + Scofidio. Blurred Theater", Edilstampa, Rome 2011, ISBN 978-1-4466-7679-0
  • Antonello Marotta: "Diller + Scofidio. Il teatro della dissolvenza", Edilstampa, Roma 2005, ISBN 8878640107
  • K. Michael Hays, Aaron Betsky, Laurie Anderson: Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio , New York 2003, ISBN 0874271312
  • Dr. Ludwig Munzinger: The Munzinger Archive Biographies , Munzinger Archive GmbH 2007
  • Elizabeth Diller, Richard Scofidio: Blur: The Making of Nothing , Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2002, ISBN 0-8109-2123-5 (English)
  • Elizabeth Diller, Richard Scofidio: Flesh: Architectural Probes , New York 1994, ISBN 1878271377

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