From New York to Los Angeles, London to Tianjin and beyond, Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, and their studio, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), shaped a practice that moves fluidly between architecture, art and media, leaving its mark on cities across the globe. Starting as conceptual artists in the 1970s, the couple became two of the most notable architects of their generation and went on to reshape how cities can define public life and culture. Follow their story in American Masters – Liz Diller & Ric Scofidio: Architect Provocateurs, premiering nationwide Tuesday, November 24 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/americanmasters, and the PBS App. The film will stream on the American Masters YouTube channel the next day. Featuring archival footage, verité scenes, and interviews from Diller and Scofidio, the film chronicles their careers through seven acts defined by their most notable cultural projects of the past 30 years. Interviews from DS+R partners Charles Renfro and Benjamin Gilmartin, Director Emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art Glenn Lowry, Director Emerita of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston Jill Medvedow, architectural theorist K. Michael Hays of Harvard University, architecture critics Paul Goldberger and Nicolai Ouroussoff, New York Times Culture reporter Robin Pogrebin, artist and musician Laurie Anderson and architect Tod Williams provide insight into Diller and Scofidio’s enduring legacy across art, architecture and culture-at-large. Scofidio was born in New York City in 1935 and Diller was born in Poland in 1954 to a Jewish family, emigrating to the United States at the age of five. In 1979 Diller received her Bachelor of Architecture from the Cooper Union School of Architecture, where Scofidio was then her professor and mentor. They founded the award-winning studio in 1981, and conceptualized some of the world’s most iconic architectural works, including the redesign of Lincoln Center and MoMA, the High Line, and The Shed in New York; The Broad in Los Angeles; the V&A East Storehouse in London; and Al-Mujadilah Center and Women’s Mosque in Doha. Their artistic vision, along with their strong belief in creating inclusive civic spaces, is the foundation of their work as one of the most formidable partnerships in architecture and design. They continued to work together until Scofidio’s passing in 2025. Diller and Scofidio were the first architects to receive the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, known as the “Genius Grant,” and have been recognized in TIME’s 100 Most Influential People list. In 2025, DS+R was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Participation at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia for Canal Café, a laboratory-café that drew water from the Arsenale Lagoon to produce espresso. That same year, Diller received the Municipal Art Society’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal, and Scofidio was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Diller’s other accolades include the Wolf Prize in Architecture, and the 2026 Architect of RECORD Award. Alongside her ongoing work at DS+R, she is a professor at Princeton University School of Architecture, where she has taught since 1990. The filmmaker of Liz Diller & Ric Scofidio: Architect Provocateurs is Jeff Bieber, an EMMY and Peabody award-winning producer, whose previous work includes co-directing and writing the American Masters documentary Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny. He also previously produced the American Masters film Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined, and executive produced PBS limited series including Latino Americans, Asian Americans, Italian Americans, and Jewish Americans. “This is not a conventional architecture documentary,” said Bieber. “This is a film about ideas — about one of the great creative partnerships in modern times that used architecture as a form of cultural criticism to transform the American city.”