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Multi-level urban plaza with concrete ramps, yellow taxi, pedestrians, and modernist building facade by Elizabeth Diller.
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Elizabeth Diller

ArchitectCultural & CivicUrban Design & Planning

Founding Partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Elizabeth Diller is a founding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the New York architecture and design studio she co-founded with Ricardo Scofidio in 1981. She earned her B.Arch from Cooper Union and teaches at Princeton University's School of Architecture. In 1999 she and Scofidio received the first MacArthur Foundation fellowship awarded in architecture. Diller has twice been named to Time magazine's 100 most influential people list. The firm's work includes New York's High Line, The Shed, and Lincoln Center's renewal.

Experience

  1. Founding Partner

    Diller Scofidio + Renfro

    1981 – present

    Current

Past projects

  1. The High Line

    2009–2019

    Urban Design · New York, NY

    1.5-mile elevated public park on abandoned railroad from Meatpacking District to Hudson Rail Yards

  2. Workplace · New York, NY

    Adaptive reuse of former cargo facility with public rooftop garden, food hall, and community spaces

  3. Urban Design · Milan, Italy

    Mixed-use urban development on former railway yard with suspended forest, eco-zone, and residential district

  4. Education · New York, NY

  5. Cultural · Worcester, MA

Education

  • The Cooper Union

    B.Arch

Selected work