Elizabeth Diller Named to Time Magazine's Time 100 -- Time's Annual List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World
TIME named Elizabeth Diller, founding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), to the 2018 TIME 100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The full list and related tributes appear in the April 30, 2018 issue of TIME, available on newsstands on Friday, April 20, and now at time.com/100. The list, now in its fifteenth year, recognizes the activism, innovation and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals. TIME editors have said of the list in the past, “The TIME 100 is a list of the world's most influential men and women, not its most powerful, though those are not mutually exclusive terms. While power is certain, influence is subtle. As much as this exercise chronicles the achievements of the past year, we also focus on figures whose influence is likely to grow, so we can look around the corner to see what is coming."
The award has been accepted by Elizabeth Diller as a representative of the collective efforts of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), who are the only design firm to be featured on the 2018 TIME100 list. The New York-based design studio, whose work focuses on the changing role of institutions and the future of cities, is led by four partners: Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro, and Benjamin Gilmartin. DS+R's practice spans the fields of architecture, urban design, installation art, multi-media performance, digital media, and print.
DS+R is responsible for two of the largest recent architecture and planning initiatives in New York City: the High Line and the transformation of Lincoln Center’s half-century-old performing arts campus. Other notable projects around the country include the Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center at Columbia University; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley; The Granoff Center at Brown University; and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. The studio’s international work includes the 34-acre Zaryadye Park adjacent to the Kremlin in Moscow (completed 2017) and the Museum of Image and Sound currently in construction in Rio de Janeiro. DS+R was recently selected to design a new home for the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Simon Rattle.
The studio is currently leading two cultural works significant to New York: The Shed—the first multi-arts center designed to commission, produce, and present all types of performing arts, visual arts, and popular culture designed in collaboration with Rockwell Group - and the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art (both opening 2019). DS+R is also currently designing three art installations opening May 2018: the Costume Institute’s "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and two installations at the 2018 Venice Biennale.
