The American architect of Polish origin Elizabeth Diller (Łódź, 1954) is one of the most influential professionals on the international scene, at the head of the studio she founded together with her husband, Ricardo Scofidio (1935-2025), and Charles Renfro. Diller is in Barcelona this Saturday to participate in the first day of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya cycle Thinking the museum, imagining futures, organized to talk about the architectural challenges of museums on the occasion of the center's expansion. One of the studio's first works was the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. They have also done an expansion of MoMA, The Broad, in Los Angeles –currently in the process of expansion– and the V&A East Storehouse, in London. "Nowadays, museums try to attract a very wide audience –states Elizabeth Diller–. That is why they have a wide variety of exhibitions and a pleasant cafeteria, spaces where people can relax, conference cycles, outdoor areas and spaces for events that, after all, serve to raise funds. The financial question is key: in Europe, culture has always received state support, while in the United States it has not been like that. That is why, there we have had to depend on philanthropy. In Europe, sponsorship is gaining more and more weight".