Diller Scofidio + Renfro is an interdisciplinary studio that fuses architecture, the visual arts and the performing arts. Their work encompasses architecture, urban design, temporary and permanent site-specific installations, multi-media theater, electronic media, and print. All three partners are educators and see teaching as an extension of their creative work: Ricardo Scofidio at the Cooper Union School of Architecture, Elizabeth Diller at Princeton University, and Charles Renfro at Rice University. Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio were recipients of the MacArthur Foundation “genius award” in 1999 and 2004, the first ever given in the field of architecture. The DS+R studio has also received numerous awards, accolades, and commissions from various organizations including AIA Design Award for the Institute of Contemporary Art and the School of American Ballet, the National Design Award in Architecture from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in addition to the Brunner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Obie for Creative Achievement in Off-Broadway Theater, the MacDermott Award for Creative Achievement from M.I.T, and the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design.

In 2010 was picked by the University of California, Berkeley, to design the university’s new art and film complex.

Other projects of note include the design for the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, an expansion of the Julliard School, the redesign of Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, in New York, and the master plan for The High Line in Manhattan.