Design Dialogues: Elizabeth Diller with Reed Kroloff

Design Dialogues: Elizabeth Diller with Reed Kroloff

Elizabeth Diller is a founding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), an interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the visual arts and the performing arts. DS+R has received numerous accolades including the first MacArthur Genius grant awarded to an architecture firm, a retrospective of their work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, inclusion in Time magazine's 100 most influential people and selection as Fast Company's most innovative design firm. Diller will discuss her work and the firm’s creative processes in architecture and art with Reed Kroloff, Immediate Past Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art & Art Museum, and a nationally known commentator in the world of architecture and urban design.

This program is co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Women in Architecture, and the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

The Chicago Architecture Foundation is pleased to partner with Chicago Women in Architecture (CWA) for its 40th anniversary by hosting a special exhibition, Women Building Change: Celebrating 40 Years of Chicago Women in Architecture. The exhibition runs from June 12, 2014 – December 2014 at CAF.