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California College of the Arts (SF)

November 18 - November 18, 2010

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1111 Eighth Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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Presented as part of CCA’s Architecture Lecture Series Elizabeth Diller is a professor of architecture at Princeton University and founding principal of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, a 50-person interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the visual arts, and the performing arts. In 1999, the MacArthur Foundation presented Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio with the “genius” award (the first ever given in the field of architecture) for their commitment to integrating architecture with issues of contemporary culture. They were recently made fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects and were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008. They were named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2009. Among the firm’s projects: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York; the High Line, an urban park situated on an obsolete elevated railway in New York City; the expansion of the School of American Ballet; the Institute of Contemporary Art on Boston’s waterfront; and the Blur building on Lake Neuchâtel, built for the 2002 Swiss Expo. Currently in design: the Museum of Image and Sound on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro; the master plan for Governors Island in New York City; Media Zone in Abu Dhabi; and the Hirshhorn Museum “Bubble” on the National Mall in Washington DC. Cosponsored by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.