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Columbia Selects Diller Scofidio + Renfro to design New home in Manhattanville (Columbia University)
Elizabeth Diller of the New York-based architecture firm Diller Scofidio +
Renfro will design Columbia business school's new facilities in
Manhattanville. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, in consultation
with Dean Glenn Hubbard and members of the Columbia business school Board of
Overseers, made the selection after hosting a competition featuring several of
the world's top architects.
Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, CC '60, were the first architects to receive
MacArthur Fellowships (commonly known as "genius grants"), and their career-
long innovations earned them a major retrospective, _The Aberrant
Architectures of Diller + Scofidio_, at the Whitney Museum in 2003. Charles
Renfro joined Diller and Scofidio in leading the firm in 2004.
"Diller Scofidio + Renfro have demonstrated a great ability to translate ideas
and concepts into boundary-stretching designs," said Dean Hubbard. "This
ideas-based approach is perfect for our needs -- Liz Diller fully understands
that our project is not about bricks and mortar, but rather about transforming
the School and how we approach business education and business itself. Our new
facilities will be specifically designed to foster collaboration,
communication, and an education that reflects the way business is conducted in
the 21st century."
The selection of the architect for the ...
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