Seven essential designs by the late Ricardo Scofidio, co-founder of DS+R
DS+R co-founding principal Ricardo Scofidio passed away yesterday at the age of 89, leaving behind many important buildings and other great architectural designs that will now be reexamined in the context of their critical success and relationship to contemporary architectural discourse. As a body of work, they represent what has been labeled as a "veritable reinvention of New York’s public spaces, cultural institutions and educational facilities" by his hometown newspaper. This is true for his work abroad as it was in the United States, where headline designs for the High Line, The Broad, ICA Boston, MoMA, Lincoln Center, and The Shed (to name a few) have become irreplaceable fonts for the arts and intellectual live, marked connately by a sensitivity to functionality and formal abstraction. Scofidio was also a beloved longtime faculty member at the Cooper Union, where he first met his wife and practice partner, Elizabeth Diller. A look back at seven quintessential designs by the l...
DS+R co-founding principal Ricardo Scofidio passed away yesterday at the age of 89, leaving behind many important buildings and other great architectural designs that will now be reexamined in the context of their critical success and relationship to contemporary architectural discourse.
As a body of work, they represent what has been labeled as a "veritable reinvention of New York’s public spaces, cultural institutions and educational facilities" by his hometown newspaper.
This is true for his work abroad as it was in the United States, where headline designs for the High Line, The Broad, ICA Boston, MoMA, Lincoln Center, and The Shed (to name a few) have become irreplaceable fonts for the arts and intellectual live, marked connately by a sensitivity to functionality and formal abstraction.
Scofidio was also a beloved longtime faculty member at the Cooper Union, where he first met his wife and practice partner, Elizabeth Diller. A look back at seven quintessential designs by the l...
