Slovenian artist and architect Marjetica Potrc has been concerned for the past half decade with the phenomenon of migration. An urban anthropologist, Potrc investigates the shifting terrain of the contemporary city. Potrc champions a growing trend of what she terms "individual initiatives" in urban construction that include such diverse manifestations as squatter cooperatives, shantytowns, and private gated communities. Her large-scale architectural projects grow out of her in-depth research of specific instances of migration. Potrc's Core Units are small functional buildings designed for modification and use by settlers, and her House for Travelers (2000) can be erected as needed by migrants. She is the recipient of the Guggenheim Museum's 2000 Hugo Boss Prize, and her work has been shown most recently at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2001); Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2000); and at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria (1999). She was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1995. Marjetica Potrc lives and works in Ljubljana and is currently Associate Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, and this year she is an artist in residence at the Kuensterlhaus Bethanien in Berlin.