Ricardo Scofidio '60, Principal and Founding Member of Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architects, with wife Elizabeth Diller was one of just over 200 contemporary thought leaders and artists inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts & Sciences this April, 2009. Scofidio's list of achievements include receiving the first MacArthur Fellowship ever awarded in architecture, alongside wife and Princeton University professor Elizabeth Diller. They also were responsible for the revitalization of Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

He obtained his B.A. in Architecture from Columbia in 1960 and attended the Cooper Union School of Architecture from 1952-55. Scofidio initially worked as an Architect and then as a Professor, a post he maintains to this day at the Cooper Union School of Architecture. Diller + Scofidio was formed in 1979.

Together the couple has been recognized with the following awards: Graham Foundation for Advance Study in the Fine Arts fellowship, 1986; New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, 1986, 1987, and 1989; Bessie Schoenberg Dance and Performance Award for design, 1987; Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism fellowship, 1989; Tiffany Foundation Award for Emerging Artists, 1990; Award from Progressive Architecture magazine, for Slow House, 1991; Chrysler Award for Achievement and Design, 1997; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 1999; Eugene MacDermott Award for creative achievement from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999; Brunner Prize, Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2003; James Beard Foundation Award for best new restaurant design for the Brasserie; Progressive Architecture Design Award for Blur Building; Obie Award for creative achievement, Village Voice, for Jet Lag.

Posted 11/13/2009