Charles Renfro is a partner at Diller Sco dio + Renfro (DS+R), a 115-person interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the performing arts and the visual arts. Together with Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Sco dio, he is intimately involved in the design of each of the studio’s projects.

His work with DS+R has been exhibited worldwide at museums and institutions including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Netherlands Architecture Institute, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Centre Pompidou in France. Charles is a contributing editor of Document Journal and his writing has been published in Bomb, OUT and A+U Magazine. He is a board member of Spaceworks and Storefront for Art and Architecture, where he has been president of the board since 2011. In 2012, Charles was honored as a Rice University Distinguished Alumnus, making him one of the youngest alumni to ever receive this prestigious award. He is a recipient of the 2015 Texas Medal of the Arts Awards.