Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture (Not Architecture) is the first comprehensive monograph on DS+R's cross-disciplinary practice, spanning over 100 built and ephemeral works across architecture, urban design, installation art, performance, and digital media.
About This Book
Founded in 1981, New York-based Diller Scofidio + Renfro has consistently refused the boundaries of conventional architectural practice. This monograph documents that refusal across more than four decades — from the Blur Building's engineered atmosphere of fog to the civic transformation embodied by the High Line, and forward to the V&A East Storehouse in London. Rather than presenting a straightforward retrospective, the book is itself a spatial argument: its unique binding creates two structurally conjoined volumes that can be read individually or in parallel, with crossover layouts connecting shared obsessions across modes of production. For anyone serious about contemporary architecture and interdisciplinary design practice, this is essential primary material.
Key Features
- 792 pages of project documentation, critical dialogues, and photography across architecture, installation, and performance works
- Layouts by design consultancy 2x4; photography by Iwan Baan and Matthew Monteith among others
- New dialogues with Edmund de Waal, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paola Antonelli, Alan Cumming, and William Forsythe
- Notable projects include the High Line (New York), the Blur Building (Swiss Expo), and the V&A East Storehouse (London)
- Published by Phaidon, 2002
What You'll Discover
- How DS+R's practice operates across architecture, installation art, performance, and digital media without subordinating any one discipline to another
- The structural logic behind the book's conjoined-volume format, which mirrors the studio's own interest in bridging different modes of production
- Cross-disciplinary perspectives from figures including choreographer William Forsythe and curator Paola Antonelli, situating DS+R within broader cultural conversations
- The studio's evolving approach to civic space — from ephemeral and experimental projects to major cultural institutions at global scale
About the Author
Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a New York-based interdisciplinary studio founded in 1981. Their practice spans architecture, urban design, installation art, performance, and digital media, with projects including the High Line in New York City, the Blur Building for the 2002 Swiss Expo, and the forthcoming V&A East Storehouse in London.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 792
- Dimensions: 29.0 x 24.7 x 5.8 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781838667207
- Publisher: Phaidon
- Publication Date: 2002
Perfect For: Architects, curators, and design researchers with an interest in interdisciplinary practice, civic architecture, and the expanding boundaries of spatial design.