She and Scofidio plan to take time off from their academic posts one semester each year for the next five years, beginning this spring. They will work on design projects in the United States, Japan and Europe, including Swiss Expo 2002 for which they are creating a space they plan to shroud in a mist created by 15,000 high-pressure water nozzles. It's a very prestigious acknowledgment that what we're doing, we should continue to do. Students from around globe From her earliest days as an architect, Diller has also been a teacher, lecturing at institutions such as Cooper Union and Harvard before joining the faculty at Princeton in 1990. She says she has seen substantial changes in the School of Architecture, which is now drawing numbers of talented students from around the globe.
Students are interested in thinking about architecture.
That's what I do with them. Issues such as technology, gender, politics and architectural space are the bridge between Diller's architectural practice and her teaching. For all the freedom the MacArthur Fellowship will make possible in the next five years, teaching will remain an integral part of her professional life. She wouldn't have it otherwise. The fellowship allows us to be able to teach and also to concentrate on our own work.