Elizabeth Diller is known for reshaping cities — and minds — by dismantling conventions and rebuilding meaning. Moving fluidly between disciplines has shaped Diller’s work for more than four decades. She is a founding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and a Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. Alongside partner Ricardo Scofidio (1935-2025), Diller’s cross-genre work has been distinguished with TIME’s "100 Most Influential People" list and the first MacArthur Foundation fellowship awarded in the field of architecture.

Founded in 1981, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) is a design studio whose practice spans the fields of architecture, urban design, installation art, multi-media performance, digital media, and print. With a focus on cultural and civic projects, DS+R’s work addresses the changing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio is based in New York and is comprised of over 100 architects, designers, artists and researchers, led by four partners—Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro and Benjamin Gilmartin.

DS+R is recognized globally for groundbreaking projects that include NYC’s acclaimed High Line (2019) - a 1.5 mile-long public park, the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (2012), the expansion of Museum of Modern Art (2019), Columbia Business School (2022), The Shed (2019), 15 Hudson Yards (2018) and the Google Pier 57 (2023) multi-block urban campus, along with directing and producing the 'Mile-Long Opera' (2018), an immersive choral work staged on the High Line, and the installation for the Metropolitan Museum Fashion Institute’s blockbuster ‘Heavenly Bodies’ exhibition (2018).

In Los Angeles the Broad Museum (2015) and expansion (2027), in Chicago the David Rubenstein Forum (2020), and in Boston the Institute of Contemporary Art (2006). In London the recently completed V&A East Storehouse (2025); for the 2002 Swiss Expo the highly influential 'Blur Building’ - a pavilion made of fog on Lake Neuchâtel; and in Qatar, the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women (2024). Most recently, DS+R was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Participation at the 2025 Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition for their site specific ‘Canal Café’ installation.

The firm recently published a double volume, career-spanning monograph Architecture, Not Architecture: Diller Scofidio + Renfro (2025, Phaidon). A book signing follows the presentation.

A limited capacity Reception (included with VIP Seating PLUS Reception ticket) will take place in the museum’s Elrod Sculpture Garden, adjacent to the Annenberg Theater. Hors d'oeuvres and wine catered from Livs Palm Springs by Chef Gabriel Woo. Presentation 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, reception until 3:30 PM.

Keynote presentation and VIP reception is sponsored by Sunset Magazine, with additional funding received from the Chris and Jim Scott Family Foundation.

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