What Diller Scofidio + Renfro does

Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a private, for-profit interdisciplinary design studio founded in 1981. Per the supplied firmographic description, the firm is based in New York and operates with 101-250 employees; the brief input does not specify a legal name beyond the trade name itself, which is supported

The firm functions in the architectural and interdisciplinary design sector — practices that traditionally deliver services around buildings, cultural institutions, urban scale interventions, and media/art-adjacent commissions. However, the supplied input contains no information on specific projects, clients, products, service offerings, technology stack, pricing model, intellectual property, or revenue mechanics. The website (dsrny.com) is active and the firm maintains a leadership directory referencing at least a director of marketing role, suggesting an organized client-engagement and business-development function, but no further commercial mechanics are documented.

Multiple firmographic fields in the input are inconsistent or unpopulated: the city is listed as "Colorado" and the country as "Mexico," which conflicts with the short description of a New York base and should be treated as unreliable data; ownership, funding, parent/subsidiary structures, and operating geographies are all marked as undetermined. No M&A, funding rounds, executive changes (beyond the named marketing director), regulatory actions, partnerships, or certifications are documented. As a result, the description above is intentionally conservative and limited to what the source material directly supports.

Name

Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Legal name

Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Website

https://dsrny.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1981

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a private, New York-based interdisciplinary design studio founded in 1981 with 101-250 employees, offering architectural and design services across built, cultural, and media-adjacent work.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architecture & Design Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Architectural Services (541310), Interior Design Services (54141), Landscape Architectural Services (541320), Other Specialized Design Services (54149)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

Keywords

• Architecture design services
• Cultural institution projects
• Urban design master planning
• Interdisciplinary design studio
• Exhibition and pavilion design

Headquarters

HQ city

Colorado

HQ country

Mexico

HQ region

Latin America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Diller Scofidio + Renfro is an interdisciplinary design studio that delivers architecture, urban design, exhibition design, and large-scale cultural and civic projects for institutional, public, and private clients. The studio combines conventional architectural practice with art, performance, and media-based design to produce buildings, pavilions, and master plans. Work is delivered through commissioned projects rather than standardized products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• OMA: Founder-led interdisciplinary architecture practice with a comparable cultural and institutional portfolio and similar positioning around experimentation and design-led research.
• BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group): High-profile interdisciplinary architecture studio with similar headcount and a comparable mix of cultural, institutional, and urban commissions; competes with DS+R for marquee cultural and civic work.
• Ennead Architects: New York-based architecture studio of similar size and cultural-institutional focus; a direct mid-sized peer competing for the same NYC cultural and civic commissions.
• Snøhetta: Interdisciplinary design studio working across architecture, landscape, and urban design for cultural and institutional clients; comparable to DS+R in studio model, scale (~250 employees), and cultural-project portfolio mix.
• Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Founder-led cultural-architecture practice with a globally recognized portfolio of museums and cultural buildings; comparable to DS+R in prestige tier, project type, and high-cultural-architecture selection rate.
• Zaha Hadid Architects: Founder-named practice operating at the upper-prestige tier of cultural and institutional architecture with a comparable scale and signature-project orientation.
• Studio Gang (Jeanne Gang): Mid-sized interdisciplinary design studio with a strong cultural and civic portfolio; comparable in scale, founder-led brand identity, and competition for institutional commissions.

Broad incumbents

• Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM): Large diversified architecture and engineering practice; overlaps with DS+R on major cultural and institutional projects but operates at significantly greater scale and across a much broader building-type portfolio.
• Foster + Partners: Large global architecture practice with a far broader portfolio spanning commercial, infrastructure, and cultural work; comparable to DS+R on large cultural commissions but at materially greater scale.

Emerging players

• SWA Group: Landscape architecture and urban design practice with a comparable cultural and urban-project focus; partial overlap with DS+R's site/urban work rather than full architectural scope.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/diller-scofidio---renfro

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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