Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a New York design studio that works across architecture, the visual arts and the performing arts. It was founded in 1981 by the architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio; Charles Renfro joined in 1997 and became a partner in 2004, and Benjamin Gilmartin became the fourth partner in 2015. In 1999 it was the first architecture firm to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, the foundation saying it had "created an alternative form of architectural practice that unites design, performance, and electronic media with cultural and architectural theory and criticism".
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The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2006) was one of the studio's first buildings and the first new art museum in Boston in over a century. The High Line in New York (2009), designed with James Corner Field Operations and Piet Oudolf, turned a disused 1.45-mile railway spur on Manhattan's West Side into an elevated park that opened in phases from 2009 to 2014. Zaryadye Park in Moscow (2017), beside Red Square, came from a 2012 competition its team won against 90 entries, with terraces planted as forest, steppe, tundra and floodplain.
