The focus of architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio is as much about the nature of space as it is about creating spaces. Their architectural practice utilizes design, performance, and electronic media with architectural and cultural theory as accompanying tools to investigate architecture as a field of social relationships and to remind us that architecture is everywhere. This is seen in their 1990 design for "Slow House," (an unbuilt Long Island beach house) shown in the "UnPrivate House" show at the New York Museum of Modern Art. The structure exists as much to render virtual views of the ocean - which can then be seen at home in New York - as it does to provide refuge for its inhabitants.

Among Diller and Scofidio's other projects are "Blur," a structure designed for Expo 2001 at Lake Neuchatel, Switzerland; "This Is Only a Test," a simulation ride, also for Expo 2001; and Facsimile, a permanent video-driven installation at San Francisco's Convention Center expansion that generates "impostor" images. Recent projects include InterClone Hotel, an installation for the Istanbul Biennial; "The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life," an exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture; and Bad Press, which appeared at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Diller is associate professor at Princeton University, while Scofidio is professor of architecture at The Cooper Union. They were awarded the first-ever MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in the field of architecture, as well as the MacDermott Award for Creative Achievement from MIT and the Tiffany Award for Emerging Artists.