DILLER + SCOFIDIO Diller + Scofidio is a collaborative, interdisciplinary studio that fuses architecture, the visual arts and the performing arts. The team is primarily involved in thematically-driven experimental work that takes the form temporary and permanent site-specific installations, multi-media theater, electronic media, and print, as well as architectural commissions. Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio are the recipients of the MacArthur Foundation Award, the first fellowship given in the field of architecture. They have recently been named finalists for a National Design Award from The Cooper Hewitt Museum and were awarded an Obie for Creative Achievement in Off Broadway Theater for Jet Lag, a James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Design for the Brasserie, and a Progressive Architecture Design Award for the Blur Building. They have also recently received the MacDermott Award for Creative Achievement from M.I.T, the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, the Tiffany Award for Emerging Artists, and fellowships from the Graham Foundation, the Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism, the N.Y. Foundation for the Arts. D+S is currently working on the Institute for Contemporary Art, a commissioned new museum in Boston, Blur, a media pavilion for Swiss EXPO 2002, Brooklyn Academy of Music Cultural District, a master plan for BAMLDC in collaboration with Rem Koolhaas, a new theater for the Wooster Group in that district, evansandwong, a concept store, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Facsimile, a permanent installation for the new Moscone Convention Center expansion in San Francisco and a retrospective of their work is planned by the Whitney Museum of American Art for 2003. They are finalists in a selected international competition for the Museum of Art & Technology in New York for EyeBeam Atelier. Selection is still pending. Recently completed projects include: Travelogues, a permanent installation at the new JFK International Arrivals Terminal in New York. The Brasserie, in the Seagram Building, New York, Master/Slave, an installation at the Cartier Foundation in Paris, Slither, 104 units of social housing in Gifu Japan, Jet Lag, a multi-media work for the stage in collaboration with The Builders Association, EJM1: Man Walking at Ordinary Speed and EJM2: Inertia, two dance collaborations with the Lyon Ballet Opera and Charleroi Danses, all currently touring the U.S, Europe and Asia, Refresh, a web project for the Dia Art Foundation; The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, an exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, InterClone Hotel, an installation at the Ataturk Airport for the Istanbul Biennial, and Pageant, a video installation for the Johannesburg Biennial. In the last several years D+S has completed X,Y, a permanent installation for a pachinko parlor in Kobe Japan, Jump Cuts, a permanent video marquee for the world’s largest Cineplex theater, San Jose CA, Moving Target, a collaborative dance work with Charleroi/Danses Belgium, Business Class, a collaborative theater work with Dumb Type and Hotel Pro Forma for Copenhagen Cultural Capital, Indigestion, an interactive video installation; Subtopia, an electronic project for the ICC Gallery in Tokyo, and Pageant for the Venice Biennale of Architecture. Installations of Diller + Scofidio have been commissioned by the Cartier Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum NY, the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and Gallery Ma in Tokyo, among others. Their work is in the permanent collection of MoMA, SFMoMA, the Fond National d’Art Contemporain, various FRACs in France, the Musee de la Mode in Paris, and many private collections. Elizabeth Diller is Professor of Architecture at Princeton University and Ricardo Scofidio is Professor of Architecture at The Cooper Union. Their bi-lingual book, "Back to the Front: Tourisms of War /Visite aux armee: tourismes de guerre"; was published by the FRAC Basse-Normandie. A book of their work, "FLESH" was reprinted last year by PAP. Text source: University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning