Diederik De Konig graduated cum laude in architecture from Delft University of Technology, and also holds a master's degree in Environmental and Infrastructure Planning from the University of Groningen. After having taught at The Berlage in Delft for three years, he now has a research and teaching position at the Institut Architektur und Landschaft of TU Graz. Based in Graz, he is doing his PhD research on architecture in the countryside at the Borders & Territories group of the TU Delft. Recently, his independent architecture practice, led together with Laura van Santen, completed its first homestead in the east of the Netherlands.