Liz Diller Wears Zippered Sweatpants to Black-Tie Events

You’ve probably visited at least one — and most likely more — of architect Liz Diller’s projects. Her firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which opened in 1981, is the rare office able to build experimental designs, like the High Line and the Shed, prolifically. It’s also behind MoMA’s $50 million expansion into a megamuseum and the Lincoln Center renovation of the aughts that remade “institutions where I had my first introduction to art and music,” says Diller, who has lived in New York since she was 6. Her firm recently finished the Columbia Business School’s Manhattanville campus and is renovating a 19th-century warehouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that will become the MIT School of Architecture’s new home.