Elizabeth Diller
Born in Lodz, Poland in 1954, Diller move to the United states when she was 5 years old. After a somewhat quiet start to her career, Diller has come to be known as a prolific and influential builder of cultural spaces. In 2018, Diller was named the world’s most influential architect by Time Magazine and was the only architect to make the top 100 list of influential people.
She met her partner in life and work, Ricardo Scofidio, while studying art at Cooper Union. Some of her practice’s most notable designs include New York’s High Line, Los Angeles’s Broad Museum, a large expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, the US Olympic museum, and Juilliard School’s offshoot location in China. Philanthropist Eli Broad says of Diller, “She imagines things the rest of us have to see to believe. She can turn a metaphor into brick and mortar.”
