a social exchange :: reference

Any action for Diller & Scofidio revolves around what they call an architectural ‘hinge’, which may be a literal or metaphorical component of a project. It is the key to the continuity by which the expectations and and outcome of the action can be known. In many of their projects the hinge is the absent element whose definition is contributed by the participant or the observer.
[Diller and Scofidio’s] ambition perhaps is to establish an architecture where the hinges are not isolated events but pivots that activate a dense and continuous fabric of meaning, of forms and surfaces crowded with latent actions.