The Shed as seen from the High Line, both the work of Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Photographer: Brett Beyer
Inside the ‘Not Architecture’ of High Line Designers Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Liz Diller talks about the new book that surveys the 40 years of buildings and artworks she created with partners Ricardo Scofidio and Charles Renfro.
(Ricardo Scofidio, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, died at 89 on March 6; this interview with his wife and partner Liz Diller was conducted before his death. Read more about his work here.)
For decades, the New York architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has been reshaping Manhattan’s West Side, from the Meatpacking District up to Manhattanville. The studio’s impact is especially felt around Chelsea, where the High Line — designed by DS+R with James Corner Field Operations and Piet Oudolf — transformed an abandoned railroad spur into an intensely popular and endlessly copied linear park in 2009. Just off the trail, The Shed, a structurally innovative cross-disciplinary arts center, opened in 2019 to bring much-needed cultural programming to Hudson Yards.