Diller + Scofidio is a collaborative, interdisciplinary studio that fuses architecture, the visual arts and the performing arts. The team is primarily involved in thematically-driven experimental work that takes the form temporary and permanent site-specific installations, multi-media theater, electronic media, and print, as well as architectural commissions. Elizabeth Diller is Professor of Architecture at Princeton University; Ricardo Scofidio is Professor of Architecture at The Cooper Union.

Competition winner
Diller + Scofidio
Eyebeam
Museum of Art and Technology
New York, NY

"We are thrilled to have been selected. The Eyebeam project is at the intersection of our passions, architecture and new media art. The great challenge ahead is to reconcile their discrepancy in speed: architecture is permanent by nature and new media is transient by definition. We will have to invent the map as we navigate it."
Elizabeth Diller

Diller + Scofidio
ICA Boston
Fan Pier
Boston, Massachusetts


"The design of the ICA negotiates between two competing objectives: to perform as a dynamic civic building filled with public and social activities, and as a contemplative space providing individual visitors with intimate experiences with contemporary art. The "public" building is built from the ground up; the "intimate" building, from the sky down."
Elizabeth Diller

Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Field Operations
The High Line
New York, New York
USA


The master plan for the High Line, a 1.5-mile-long historic elevated rail structure on the West Side of Manhattan, is a design collaborative with Field Operations that also includes Olafur Eliasson, Piet Oudolf and Buro Happold.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Fox and Fowle Architects
Street of the Arts
Lincoln Center
New York, New York


Lincoln Center has unveiled the conceptual design for a dynamic new "Street of the Arts" spanning West 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
The design by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Fox and Fowle Architects embraces the spirit of the original 1960s architecture, while incorporating elements of transparency and fluidity to create a new language celebrating the vitality of the cultural complex today.

Diller + Scofidio
Facsimile 2002
Moscone Convention Center
San Francisco, California

Diller + Scofidio is currently working on a permanent installation, commisioned by San Francisco Arts Commission, for the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco for 2002-3.

Diller & Scofidio
Blur Building
Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland

“ An inhabitable cloud whirling above a lake”.
architecture magazine

The Blur Building by is a media pavilion for Swiss Expo 2002 now under construction at the base of Lake Neuchatel in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.

Construction start
Diller + Scofidio
Quadrant House
Phoenix, Arizona



The quadrant house is conceived in direct response to its site, a small plateau on the side of Camelback Mountain in Phoenix. From this vantage point the house is able to engage two contrasting aspects of the landscape; the flat city grid below and the immense rugged mass of Camelback above.

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Home page is UNDER CONSTRUCTION (http://www.dillerscofidio.com/)

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yeah they are pretty cool. But they have been Diller Scofidio+Renfro for a little while now instead of just Diller+Scofidio. Check out their writings if you get the chance. Did anyone get a chance to sit in on their lecture for Semi_Permanent at Lincoln Center? How was it?

The Blur Building by is a media pavilion for Swiss Expo 2002 now under construction at the base of Lake Neuchatel in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.

it's been and gone, it's 2005 now :D

Construction start
Diller + Scofidio
Quadrant House
Phoenix, Arizona



The quadrant house is conceived in direct response to its site, a small plateau on the side of Camelback Mountain in Phoenix. From this vantage point the house is able to engage two contrasting aspects of the landscape; the flat city grid below and the immense rugged mass of Camelback above.

Wow! I wonder how they deal with the energy codes. So much glass for Phoenix. Summer temperatures constantly hover around 117 degrees F. Perhaps super insulated and coated glass? Evaporative cooling?

Or perhaps they didn't consider the local weather conditions. I don't know what direction I would site this if given a choice.

I was wondering who came first with the use of the forms like on the Museum of Art and Technology - Was it them or Lindy Roy-or neither?

Like D+L and Linda Roy, Zaha seems to be adopting the same topology.
The procession of the simulacra seems to be taking (sucking) the life out of this once unique form dynamic.
The more the employment of this form appears to be a trendy move, the less we will begin to see it, I hope.
:bang head

I am definitly not a fan of the the shape....

It is just a sign of technology and computer generated forms. Technology isn't a bad thing by any means.

I tend to agree with Swami - It has a trendy feel to it, I generally go for architecture that has a timeless quality to it. These forms tend to date themselves.

The project above was supposed to be afforadable. There is no way detailing steel and glass like that is affordable -

It is just a sign of technology and computer generated forms. Technology isn't a bad thing by any means.

I tend to agree with Swami - It has a trendy feel to it, I generally go for architecture that has a timeless quality to it. These forms tend to date themselves.

Timeless quality? sorry...

Let us not forget and regret discarding the zeitgeist...

Timeless quality? sorry...

You don't think architecture can be timeless?

You don't think architecture can be timeless?
It can and should. Architecture opposed to humans has a (if done right) long lifespan.
But: Don't we appreciate the modernists today? Who in their time were freaks. They wrote a lot about architecture for a quite a while because no one let them build. Or the Buildings of the Art Nouveau that were torn down by the modernists for being eclectic and too decorative (Loos).
Time will tell if the 'excrescences' of modern architecture will stand future juries.

Link to video of ELIZABETH DILLER (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showpost.php?p=67707&postcount=53)

......Architectural masturbation, - (oops, are we allowed to use the ‘M’ word on PP2) - , I don’t have any other word, perhaps the closest other word I can think of is ‘graphic design’.

As for the technology debate, I have always enjoyed this one...

I think it was a lecture by ‘Peter Davey’, something to the extent that a high victorian villa is environmentally / technologically more advanced than Corbusien villa....


Back to Diller + Scofidio ,in Phoenix. ....."The quadrant house is conceived in direct response to its site", - now compare this to Rick Joy's house in Arizona, pic below...

when I was a student our nickname for these uber trendy architects was scoff my dildo. now that is a nemonic?

Why are you guys being so negative about Diller & Scofidio? Why do you think they're just uber trendy, Gorgon? The term trendy stands for something much more vague than their work IMHO... Koos, what are you referring to in your first sentence? I still see some of their projects among the most interesting pieces of architecture of the last say 20 years. The Blur Building above all, but also the Eyebeam Institute project - which is one of the clearest examples of purely diagramatic approach to architecture - do you remember how tough the competition (http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=exhibitions&id=12) was?

the image of recently finished ICA building in Boston - what I can see is a great building. to get more convinced, see the video linked by david...;)

I personally really like their work. I think they are one of the few paper architects whose work has translated well as architecture not just sculptural exeriences. Time will tell.

As for the architectural "self gratification" .. there is an italian phrase for just that "seghe mentali" - intellectual masterbation.
I tend to use a good yiddish phrase.."Ongeblussen" - all puffed up and full of itself so i dont have to guess the delicate nature of my coversation partners.
Now neither of these languages is my mother tongue so forgive me if my use is not exactly as your grandmother would have said.

That curvy platen form has been around for quite sometime. One that sticks in my mind is Neil Denaris (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2443)gallery Ma (http://www.nmda-inc.com/index_content.html) installation from 1996. Its pervasive in his work. Trendy or not it is definitely a current style, perhaps it will get a name soon.

Why are you guys being so negative about Diller & Scofidio?

Sorry for my flipant comment, I didn't mean they weren't any good. I really liked the idea of the cloud building and, that they went from arty installations to actually building is worthy of great respect.
:not worth

Article with slideshow, gallery and other interesting stuff about ICA HERE (http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/12/01/a_vision_fulfilled_at_harbors_edge/?page=full).

Hero shot by David L. Ryan:

More article about ICA on NYTimes.
Expansive Vistas Both Inside and Out (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/arts/design/08ica.html?ex=1323234000&en=1617954a2adafd87&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)

Like Herzog and D. I respect their one of a kind architecture.

I dont think their stuff is bad. It isnt without quality but it does appear to follow a fairly linear route from the most fashionable Super Dutch stylings. I am sure there is rigour there but it all seems just a tiny wee bit derivative to me.

First time I see the ICA building. At first sight it looks :rock on:
I know them from their book Flesh form about ten years ago, but didn't follow them since then. I'm quite surprised to see them build something this solid, almost industrial.

Last thing I've seen from them was an installation in Brussels in the Museum voor Schone Kunsten / Palais des Beaux Arts. They had some video installation - which i don't really remember what they were all about, but also some very interesting shirts. Folded origami-style - with a manual so you could make your own!
I'm sure there was some hi brow concept behind the whole shirt-folding thing, but for some reason i didn't remember that part :rolleyes:

So if you wonder where the folding in their buildings comes from, it all started with some shirts :D

Center the back of the shirt on an ironing board with the yoke taught. Lifting the iron as little as possible, draw the iron, with its point facing the collar down the yoke to the rear tail hem and press the box pleat, using unhurried, well-directed, rhythmic motions. To avoid unnecessary manipulation of the garment, rotate the shirt in the following sequence: first, counterclockwise over the ironing surface to expose the left front panel. Press. Pause when pressing each button hole and pocket, allowing the steam to penetrate the fabric facing and inner band. (http://www.prototypo.com/Essays/Essays3/003_1.htm)

shirt2

keep folding

last one

I'm planning my first trip to the ICA in Boston for tomorrow and will report back with pictures and comments

Diller Scofidio are lecturing Saturday Jan 20 2007 at the Carnegie Museum Lecture Hall, Pittsburgh PA as part of the Jill Watson (http://www.cmu.edu/cfa/watson/) Distinguished Lecture Series.

don't forget the wonderfully posted thread on ICA (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5276) on this forum.

New York, NY - with Field Operations - to be completed 2008-9

The master plan for The High Line, an elevated railroad spur stretching 1.45 miles along Manhattan’s Westside, is inspired by the melancholic, unruly beauty of the ruin today where nature has reclaimed a once vital piece of urban infrastructure, The team retools this industrial conveyance into a postindustrial instrument of leisure reflection about the very categories of "nature" and "culture" in our time. By changing the rules of engagement between plant life and pedestrians, the strategy of agri-tecture combines organic and building materials into a blend of changing proportions that accommodate the wild, the cultivated, the intimate, and the hyper-social. The park is marked by slowness, distraction and an other-worldliness that preserves the character of The High Line.

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The High Line project has always been my all time favorite because of the combination of reuse, urban gardens and architecture. The imagery is also fantastic. A wonderful project in every aspect.

http://www.thehighline.org/design/prelim_design/index.htm