Elizabeth Diller on The Shed, The High Line, and the MoMA Expansion

© Time Sensitive

On the latest episode of Time Sensitive, a newly launched podcast produced the New York-based “conscious entertainment” media company The Slowdown, co-host Spencer Bailey interviews architect Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro in a blockbuster-length conversation. Diller talks with Bailey about designing everything from the High Line to The Shed to the upcoming expansion of MoMA, and also delves deeper into her past, revealing how it was her mother’s idea for her “go into architecture, and if not architecture, then dentistry.” But upon getting into the Cooper Union and studying with professors like Peter Eisenman and John Hejduk, Diller’s path was clear—for the most part, anyway; it’s necessary to listen to the full episode to see why her journey to where she is today was indeed unconventional and roundabout.

Other highlights from the episode include: 

On architectonics: “While I was at Cooper Union, I decided to take this class called ‘Architectonics’ in the architecture school, mostly because I didn’t know what it meant and I thought that was intriguing. By the way, to this day I still don’t know what it means.”

Content Loader
About this author
Cite: Time Sensitive. "Elizabeth Diller on The Shed, The High Line, and the MoMA Expansion" 26 Jun 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/919748/elizabeth-diller-on-the-shed-the-high-line-and-the-moma-expansion> ISSN 0719-8884

You've started following your first account!

Did you know?

You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.