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LIZ DILLER

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As one of the founding partners of New York architectural studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), Liz Diller (W*199) has helped reshape America’s urban landscape. The architect took the reins as Guest Editor in 2015 (W*199). In conversation with graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, a fellow New Yorker, she reflected on the High Line effect, beauty in the grotesque and DS+R’s design for The Broad art museum in Los Angeles, before giving us an exclusive photographic tour

Art direction: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Photography: Matthew Monteith

Art installation credits
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From left to right, Roy Lichtenstein, Interior with African Mask, 1991, oil and Magna on canvas, 114 x 146 in (289.56 x 370.84 cm), The Eli and Edythe L Broad Collection. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein; Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your body is a battleground), 1989, photographic silkscreen on vinyl, 112 x 112 in (284.48 x 284.48 cm), The Broad Art Foundation. © Barbara Kruger. Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery, New York 

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John Currin, Hot Pants, 2010, Oil on canvas, 78 x 60 in (198.1 x 152.4cm), The Broad Art Foundation. © John Currin. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery

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From left to right, Lari Pittman, Like You, 1995, oil and enamel on five mahogany panels, 96 x 320 x 1 3/4 in (243.84 x 812.8 x 4.45 cm), The Broad Art Foundation. © Lari Pittman. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Richard Prince, Eat, Sleep and Drink, 1989, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 75 x 116 in (190.5 x 294.64cm), The Broad Art Foundation. © Richard Prince. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery; Sherrie Levine, Fountain (Buddha), 1996, cast bronze, 12 x 15 7/8 x 18 in (30.48 x 40.32 x 45.72 cm), The Broad Art Foundation. © Sherrie Levine. Courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery

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Albert Oehlen, Abstand, 2006, acrylic and oil on canvas, 110 1/4 x 133 7/8 in, (280.04 x 340.04 cm), The Broad Art Foundation. © Albert Oehlen. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery

Acknowledgements
Special thanks to The Broad, and The Broad Art Foundation. Thanks also to Corinne Rice (actor 1), Jessica Greer, (actor 2), Jade Lauren (wardrobe), Lindsey Martins (hair), Alexa Hernandez (make-up)