Diller, Scofidio: Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Winner, AIGA Best Book 2024 Featured in   Financial Times How To Spend It, Architectural Digest, Domus, Monocle, Aesthetica,   and   Wallpaper* The first comprehensive monograph on the cross-disciplinary practice including over 100 built and ephemeral works Since its founding in 1981, New York-based studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) has ed some of the world‘s most revered civic spaces and cultural institutions. Their practice covers architecture, urban , installation art, performance, digital media, and print. From the renowned High Line in New York City to the upcoming V&A East Storehouse in London to some of their earliest projects like the Blur building ed for the 2002 Swiss Expo, DS+R explores alternative strategies in space-making that engage and surprise on a global scale. ed by DS+R as a pair of structurally conjoined volumes, this monograph invites readers to bridge different modes of production and reconsider the limits of architecture. The unique binding allows each volume to be read individually or in parallel by unfolding the book at the spine. Special crossover layouts link the two volumes with shared obsessions. The monograph features layouts by consultancy 2x4, with photography by Iwan Baan and Matthew Monteith amongst other photographers. It also includes new dialogues with visionaries from other creative fields, including artist Edmund de Waal, art critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator Paola Antonelli, actor Alan Cumming, choreographer William Forsythe, professor Sylvia Lavin, curator Ana Miljacki, and Jill Medvedow.