DER US-AMERIKANISCHE ARCHITEKT RICARDO SCOFIDIO IST GESTORBEN

Der am 16. April 1935 in New York City geborene US-amerikanische Architekt Ricardo Scofidio ist am 6. März 2025 gestorben. Mit seiner Frau Elizabeth Diller gründete er das Design-Studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro, das u.a. für die «Wolke» (Blur Building) während der Schweizer Expo 02 in Yverdon sorgte. Internationale Bekanntheit und grosse Prominenz in NYC erlangten sie mit der Begrünung und Belebung der stillgelegten, sich 7,5 Meter über dem Boden befindenden Bahnstrecke High Line in Manhattan. Diller und Scofidio erhielten 1999 gemeinsam eine MacArthur Fellowship. 2008 wurden sie zu Mitgliedern der American Academy of Arts and Sciences sowie 2011 zu Mitgliedern der National Academy of Design gewählt.

Blur Building at Expo.02 in Yverdon (2002), «Wolke» - Foto: Norbert Aepli, Switzerland, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Noebu - Lizenz: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/deed.en - Datei: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20020717_Expo_Yverdon_23.JPG

Bild: Blur Building at Expo.02 in Yverdon (2002), «Wolke» – Foto: Norbert Aepli, Switzerland, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Noebu – Lizenz: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/deed.en – Datei: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20020717_Expo_Yverdon_23.JPG

Bild: High Line, New York – Foto: Acroterion, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Acroterion – Lizenz: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en – Datei: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Highline_and_IAC_Building_NY1.jpg

Ricardo Scofidio, Boldly Imaginative Architect, Is Dead at 89

Ricardo Scofidio, who with his wife, Elizabeth Diller, brought a conceptual art sensibility to architecture while designing some of the world’s most innovative concert halls, museums, academic buildings and parks, including, with partners, the High Line in Manhattan, died on Thursday.

Mr. Scofidio and Ms. Diller founded the firm now called Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York in 1979. Operating out of a gritty East Village studio, they became known for their inventive ideas about how architecture could alternately challenge and enhance perceptions, and in 1999 they became the first architects to be awarded MacArthur Foundation “genius” grants.

Fred A. Bernstein

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/arts/design/ricardo-scofidio-dead.html

Ricardo Scofidio, architect of Manhattan’s High Line park, dies at 89

Mr. Scofidio transformed an abandoned rail line in Manhattan into a public walkway of trees and city vistas.

Known for bringing an avant-garde art sensibility to architecture, the firm has created adventurous designs in prominent places, from The Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles to a massive artificial cloud above a Swiss lake for a 2002 art expo.

https://archive.is/lgbhg#selection-649.0-649.244

Tribute: Ricardo Scofidio (1935–2025)

Ricardo Scofidio, an architect who revolutionized urban public space in his hometown of New York with works such as the High Line and the transformed Lincoln Center campus, died yesterday, March 6, in Manhattan at the age of 89. According to a statement from his firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), he passed peacefully surrounded by family, including his partner in life and work, Elizabeth Diller.

Matt Hickman, Josephine Minutillo

https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17406-tribute-ricardo-scofidio-19352025

Ricardo Scofidio, architect of New York’s High Line, dies age 89

The ambitious Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston, opened in 2007, signaled Diller and Scofidio’s arrival as a major architectural force. The first museum to be built in the city in a century, its upper volume hangs dramatically above ground, freeing up space for a generous public waterfront.

The pair repeated the gesture soon after with the Juilliard School and Alice Tully Hall (both at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York), effectively removing a corner of the latter’s angular structure to create more space for the busy Manhattan intersection below.

It was, however, New York’s High Line that propelled Diller and Scofidio into mainstream consciousness: In 2009, the year its first phase opened to the public, the pair were named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people.

Oscar Holland

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/07/style/ricardo-scofidio-high-line-architect-death/index.html

Ricardo Scofidio, Architect Who Transformed the American Museum Landscape, Dies at 89

The firm’s various projects included any number of projects that were not museums: Lincoln Center, redesigned with new outdoor spaces at a cost of $1 billion; the High Line, the railroad viaduct–turned–park that runs through New York’s Chelsea neighborhood; the Blur, a pavilion situated in a Swiss lake; the Brasserie, a restaurant in the Seagram Building. But it is Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s museums that have had some of the greatest impact. (Though Scofidio was not the principal designer of all of them, he continued to play an active role in nearly all of them.)

Alex Greenberger

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ricardo-scofidio-architect-dead-moma-the-broad-high-line-1234735015

The Passing of Ricardo Scofidio

Founder of the U.S.-based architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Participant in multiple editions of the Biennale Architettura and in the Biennale Architettura 2025, directed by Carlo Ratti.

https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/passing-ricardo-scofidio

Bild: The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston – Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architects – Foto: Smart Destinations, https://www.flickr.com/photos/gocardusa/3789242079/ – Lizenz: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en – Datei: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Institute_of_Contemporary_Art.jpg

Ricardo Scofidio, arquitecto audaz e imaginativo, murió a los 89 años

Aportó una sensibilidad de arte conceptual a monumentos culturales como el Lincoln Center y a espacios públicos innovadores como el High Line de Manhattan

https://www.lanacion.com.ar/el-mundo/ricardo-scofidio-arquitecto-audaz-e-imaginativo-murio-a-los-89-anos-nid07032025/

Addio a Ricardo Scofidio, fondatore dello studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro

L’architetto statunitense aveva 89 anni. Con la compagna Elizabeth Diller ha firmato alcuni dei progetti più significativi di New York, come la High Line.

https://living.corriere.it/architettura/morto-architetto-ricardo-scofidio-studio-diller-scofidio-renfro/

Mort de Ricardo Scofidio, architecte qui a réhabilité la «High Line» en jardins suspendus à New York

Ce parc surélevé de 2,3 kilomètres est devenu un des lieux emblématiques de New York depuis son ouverture en 2009. L’architecte était également connu pour avoir travaillé sur le musée d’art contemporain de Los Angeles «The Broad» et sur le Zaryadye Park à Moscou.

https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/etats-unis-mort-de-ricardo-scofidio-architecte-qui-a-rehabilite-la-high-line-en-jardins-suspendus-a-new-york-20250307

Der Architekt, der New York die High Line gab

Der Architekt Ricardo Scofidio baute spektakuläre Universitäten und Museen – und verwandelte eine verfallene Hochbahntrasse zu einem Park über der Stadt. Jetzt ist er im Alter von 89 Jahren gestorben

Niklas Maak

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/er-gab-new-york-die-high-line-architekt-scofidio-ist-tot-110342273.html

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Blur Building (Interior and Exterior), 2002