MoMA. Lincoln Center. The High Line. Hudson Yards. Ricardo Scofidio, the renowned architect who died on March 6 at the age of 89, put his mark on New York’s most important cultural icons, past, present and future.
For almost 45 years, Scofidio led the firm today known as
Diller Scofidio + Renfro with his spouse, Elizabeth Diller (Charles Renfro became partner in 2004). In that time, the firm changed how we think about the intersection of art, architecture and public space. A truly trans-disciplinary practice, DS+R describes its breadth as spanning “the fields of architecture, urban design, installation art, multi-media performance, digital media, and print.”