Curated by Farshid Moussavi, Architecture as an Instruction-Based Art is a new show. This in itself is a feat. An act of exposition featuring ninety international architecture firms, the show pulls back the curtain on the instruments of practice by displaying a collection of polychromatic screenshots of building information models (BIM) and computer-aided design (CAD) files, plotted and pinned to the wall.

In their offices in Chelsea, my architecture partner Michael Abel and I met another architecture partnership, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo (Ric) Scofidio, founding partners of Diller Scofidio + Renfro. As one of the offices that serve as a template for New York City offices, we spoke with them on the basis of searching for solutions to the many crises we are facing and how architects are implicated.