Archinect - Features 2024-04-30T19:10:54-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149940802/the-reluctant-architect-15-minutes-with-liz-diller The Reluctant Architect: 15 Minutes with Liz Diller Julia Ingalls 2016-04-20T08:49:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ft/ft2x354he1o1hin1.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Elizabeth Diller, co-founding partner of Diller, Scofidio and Renfro, almost didn&rsquo;t become an architect. In her student years at <a href="http://archinect.com/schools/cover/697/the-cooper-union" target="_blank">Cooper Union</a>, Diller expressed a greater interest in pursuing film than in taking up traditional architectural practice, partly because the profession seemed like too much of a commercial pursuit. Some thirty-six years later, from the <a href="http://archinect.com/features/tag/608838/the-broad-museum" target="_blank">Broad Museum</a> to Lincoln Center to <a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/2191/high-line" target="_blank">The High Line</a>, DS+R&rsquo;s built work consistently pushes the visitor to experience space in an unanticipated way without providing a ready-made interpretation.&nbsp;</p>