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Elizabeth Diller
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, New York
Saturday, January 20, 2007, 6:30 p.m.
Carnegie Lecture Hall

Immediately following the lecture there will be a reception in the Hall of Architecture hosted by The College of Fine Arts. The reception is open to the public.

Elizabeth Diller is a principal in the collaborative inter-disciplinary studio, Diller, Scofidio + Renfro. In 1999, the partnership received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the first architects to do so, for a unique practice that unites design, performance, and electronic media with cultural and architectural theory and criticism.  Among numerous other awards, they have received an Obie Award for Creative Achievement in Off Broadway Theater for their multi-media theater work, Jet Lag; and a Progressive Architecture Design Award for the Blur Building, a structure made of fog for the Swiss Expo 2002. The firm is currently working on a multi-part expansion project for Lincoln Center and a townhouse in Lower Manhattan. Their new building for the Boston Institute for Contemporary Art opened in late 2006. They also recently partnered with filmmaker Mira Nair on the installation Have You Ever Been Mistaken for a Muslim? in Lille, France. Diller Scofidio + Renfro have published Back to the Front: Tourisms of War, and Flesh: Architectural Probes, both by Princeton Architectural Press. In 2003 they were the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.