(USA)	What the work of New York architects Elisabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, who have been associates since 1979, primarily does is question all the changes occurring in western civilization in the age of mass communications and the media. Their praxis goes well beyond the strict field of architecture, and borrows from the visual arts, performance, installation, scenography, writing, and multimedia art, along with their respective methods and spaces. They also teach--Elisabeth Diller at Princeton since the early 1990s, and Ricardo Scofidio at Cooper Union, since 1965. Their many different works attempt to highlight the new norms and the new relationships between the body and space and time introduced by information and image technologies, through their daily and generalized use: the "real time" issue, the mediate/immediate link, the matter of speed, etc. Several of their installations have been to do with the issue of the home and living in it, in the face of these new space-time conditions (The Withdrawing Room, 1987, The Slow House, 1991, etc).
Diller + Scofidio Diller (Elisabeth) (1954), Scofidio (Ricardo) (1935)
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