- We'd like to, first of all, thank the ICA for giving us this opportunity.

- There was a little hesitation about them, in part just because of their public persona.

They're sort of insufferably cool.

You know, they're very New York.

They're very art world performance art.

I think that gave people in Boston, you know, Lily Pulitzer people in Boston a little bit of a start.

- Oh yes, could we dim the lights?

- She is all controlling.

She's a micromanager, and it's because she is absolutely concerned about every detail.

He is an amazing technician, an amazing craftsman.

So the combination of Ric's sort of technical abilities with Liz's control is a force to be reckoned with.

- Over the past 20 years, our practice has been dedicated to cracking open the discipline of architecture.

Our work takes many forms.

It's always driven by ideas, not by professional norms.

Architecture must constantly be in the process of rethinking conventions, that is spatial conventions, material conventions, and programmatic conventions.

This is tested with every project we do.

- That Diller and Scofidio got on this short list had everybody's jaws drop.

I mean, they just couldn't believe it.

And they have a lot of interesting things to say, but they had not built anything.

And I knew privately from having spoken to them, they were desperate for the job.

They really, really wanted it.

- Thank you.

(audience clapping) - You go through so many things like that in your life where you hope that something will come your way or a commission will occur and you walk that edge and you can drive yourself crazy.

- I thought we deeply deserved it, but it probably wasn't ours to have.

So I did put it out of my mind.

- I think we both felt that a museum would be a great challenge because it would synthesize where we'd spent the last 20 years of our lives working.