2024-05-01T12:36:21-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/139615986/archinect-chats-with-benjamin-gilmartin-diller-scofidio-renfro-s-new-partner Julia Ingalls 2015-10-26T17:52:00-04:00 >2015-11-04T23:15:50-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/9e/9e62vd5zhd0leqdf.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Last week, <a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/106441/diller-scofidio-renfro" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Diller Scofidio + Renfro</a> announced that Benjamin Gilmartin had become their fourth partner. I had a chance to ask Gilmartin about his past history as a writer, how that has influenced his working relationship with DS+R, and what the future holds for both him and the firm.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>JI: You've been with DS+R since 2004, and been a principal there since 2011. What is the biggest change now that you're partner?</strong><br><br>BG: I think day-to-day not a lot. [laughs] I've been collaborating with Liz, Rick and Charles for years on most of the projects that go through the studio, and that continues to be the case. I think that in truth there's not really a plan for the studio but there's a sense that there's a potential future beyond the founding partners. That's not for sure, but there's definite optimism about the possibility of that.&nbsp;<br><br><strong>JI: You wrote for PRAXIS. How did writing shape your concepts of design, and what did you bring from that experience into the design process with your new partners?</strong><br><br>BG:...</p>