Liz Diller & Ric Scofidio: Architect Provocateurs
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Learn how architects Liz Diller and Ric Scofidio transformed cityscapes around the world.
Learn how Liz Diller and Ric Scofidio, starting as conceptual artists in the 1970s, became two of the most notable architects of their generation. Their firm, DS+R, reshaped how cityscapes, from New York to LA and London to Doha, can define public life and culture. Today, Diller continues to influence the designs of buildings and public spaces around the world as an architect and scholar.
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Liz Diller & Ric Scofidio: Architect Provocateurs
Preview: 11/24/2026 | 1m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
Learn how Liz Diller and Ric Scofidio, starting as conceptual artists in the 1970s, became two of the most notable architects of their generation. Their firm, DS+R, reshaped how cityscapes, from New York to LA and London to Doha, can define public life and culture. Today, Diller continues to influence the designs of buildings and public spaces around the world as an architect and scholar.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(intriguing music) - When we started the High Line, we thought maybe 300,000 people would come annually.
We never imagined that in 2016, over seven and a half million people visited the High Line.
- Liz Diller, co-founder of Diller, Scofidio and Renfro, is behind some of the world's most iconic building projects.
- I feel like we touched a nerve, a global nerve.
Right from the start, I was going to be an artist.
Ric was already an architect.
Our studio was always this cross between art and architecture.
- At the beginning, they certainly weren't making buildings.
They were making art pieces.
- The fact that they could pull off that (bleep) building is extraordinary.
It's a giant machine that made a huge impact.
It's just a huge (bleep) statement.
- Little by little, Diller, Scofidio and Renfro progressively became the go-to architects for cultural projects.
- But when they hired Liz and Ric to do work on the Museum of Modern Art, there's this explosion in the architecture world.
- I don't think I've ever lived through anything like that.
- There could have been no Liz without Ric, and there could have been no Ric without Liz.
- I don't think I could do that again.
- [Narrator] Liz was the sail.
Ric was the keel.
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