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Diller honored for design work
Posted October 28, 2005; 06:30 p.m.
Elizabeth Diller, professor of architecture, and her partners in the
New York design firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, have received the
2005 Architecture Design Award from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum.
Launched in 2000 as an official project of the White House Millennium
Council, the annual awards program "celebrates design in various
disciplines as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world and seeks
to increase national awareness of design by educating the public and
promoting excellence, innovation and lasting achievement," according to
the museum.
Diller was recognized with her partners, Ricardo Scofidio and Charles
Renfro, for their work at the firm that fuses architecture with the
visual and performing arts. Their installations have been commissioned
by the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art,
both in New York; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Palais des
Beaux-Arts in Brussels; and Gallery Ma in Tokyo. Their current projects
include the construction of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and
the expansion and renovation of New York's Lincoln Center.
Diller has been a member of the Princeton faculty since 1990.