Elizabeth Diller

Elizabeth Diller studied at Cooper Union. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is architecture. Employment is recorded with Princeton University and Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Works named in the authority record are High Line and 15 Hudson Yards. Work by Elizabeth Diller is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Distinctions recorded are Women in Architecture Forum & Awards, MacArthur Fellows Program, Jane Drew Prize and Time 100.

Elizabeth Diller was born in 1958 in Łódź, Poland, to Jewish parents. The family emigrated to the United States in 1960 when she was two years old. Diller earned her B.Arch in 1979 from the Cooper Union School of Architecture. She met Ricardo Scofidio during her studies; he was her teacher and then her tutor. After earning her degree and working as an assistant professor, they later married in the 1980s. Since the 2000s, she has become well-known for her work with conceptual architecture, museums and other cultural institutions.

• According to Architectural Digest, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, since 2002, have created many projects including the Blur in Switzerland; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the High Line on the west side of Manhattan; a series of renovations to New York City's Museum of Modern Art; The Shed in New York City's Hudson Yards; a series of renovations to Lincoln Center; a film museum in Berkeley, California; buildings at Brown University and Stanford University; and the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. • They have been continuously working on several projects: Vagelos Center at Columbia Medical School; a new business-school building for Columbia University; the London Centre for Music at the Barbican; and a cinema museum in Rio de Janeiro. • She has written books including: Lincoln Center Inside Out: An Architectural Account in 2012, and has been interviewed in other works such as Bodybuilding: Architecture and Performance in 2019.