html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"American architect and Diller Scofidio + Renfro partner Ricardo Scofidio has passed away at the age of 89. Scofidio founder the New York-based firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) with her partner Elizabeth Diller in 1981.Scofidio, who led the firm with Elizabeth Diller, Charles Renfro and Benjamin Gilmartin, was known for his high-profile and large-scale projects, including the High Line and The Shed arts center projects.Announced on DS+R's Instagram account, the firm said that "it is with great sadness that we announce DS+R founder Ricardo Scofidio has passed away peacefully on March 6, 2025 at the age of 89."DS+R's High Line in New York completed in 2014. Image Iwan Baan"He was surrounded by his family, including his partner in life and work, Elizabeth Diller. Ric had a profound impact on our architectural practice, establishing the studio with a mission to make space on his own terms.""The firms partners and principals, many of whom have collaborated with him for decades, will extend his architectural legacy in the work we will continue to perform every day," the firm added."A memorial service to celebrate Rics life is being planned and will be announced in the coming weeks," said the statement.Ricardo's interdisciplinary work has brought him recognition on TIME's "100 Most Influential People" list and the first architecture-related MacArthur Foundation fellowship.Evening view of The Shed, from 30th Street. Photo Iwan Baan. Courtesy The ShedHe was in charge of designing the Blur Building, a fog-made pavilion on Lake Neuchtel for the 2002 Swiss Expo, the High Line, an adaptive reuse of an old, industrial rail infrastructure into a 1.5-mile public park, and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York and The Broad in Los Angeles. Many of the studio's independent projects were led by Ricardo Scofidio, such as Musings on a Glass Box for the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris, Tourisms: suitCase Studies, an exploration of American tourist attractions at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and Soft Sell, a video installation in an abandoned porn theater in Times Square.The Broad Museum on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Image Iwan BaanAt The Cooper Union School of Architecture, he held the title of Professor Emeritus.Scofidio went on to study architecture at the Cooper Union School of Architecture, then in 1960, while GSAPP was still known as The Columbia School of Architecture, he graduated from Columbia with a Bachelor of Architecture. In 1965, he started teaching at the Cooper Union.Although DS+R is most recognized for its cultural projects that have been completed all over the world, the office actually calls itself a "interdisciplinary" studio because of the wide range of projects it has worked on in the areas of print, digital media, architecture, installations, art, multi-media performance, and urban design.Lincoln Center in New York completed in 2010. The studio redesigned public spaces of the building, including the Central Plaza, the North Plaza, the conversion of 65th Street from a service corridor into a new central spine, the transformation of three blocks of Lincoln Centers frontage at Columbus Avenue and eventually, Damrosch Park. Image courtesy of DS+RProjects by DS+R do not adhere to a certain architectural language; instead, they incorporate flexibility, complexity, new materiality, a new media interface, and a strong emphasis on public space.The most well-known projects designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro include the High Line Park in New York, which was created by converting the former industrial rail infrastructure into a 1.5-mile public park; the Broad Art Museum in Los Angeles, which was completed in 2015 with the intention of urbanizing the structure for people arriving straight from the street; and the renovation of Lincoln Center's half-century-old performing arts campus.The firm has won multiple accolades, including the 2009 Royal Academy Architecture Prize. In the same year, Scofidio and Diller were recognized among Time's Worlds Most Influential People.The top image in the article: Ricardo Scofidio Geordie Wood.> via DS+R