Introduction: Exhibiting Herzog & de Meuron / Philip Ursprung -- Pieces for Four and More Hands / Kurt W. Forster -- Genres Are Established by the Distance between the Camera and the Subject / Philip Ursprung -- Just Waste -- Transformation and Alienation: Portfolio / Philip Ursprung -- To Paradise through Stone: Tales and Notes on Chinese Scholars' Stones / Albert Lutz -- On Vortices / Petros Koumoutsakos -- Alberto Giacometti in Basel / Reinhold Hohl -- The Dominus Winery / Christian Moueix -- Appropriation and Modification: Portfolio / Philip Ursprung -- I Make My Picture on the Surface: Visiting Thomas Ruff in Dusseldorf / Philip Ursprung -- Visiting Alfred Richterich in Laufen / Philip Ursprung -- Etienne-Louis Boullee Visits the Tate Modern / Adolf Max Vogt -- The Alchemical Brothers / Alejandro Zaera-Polo -- Stacking and Compression: Portfolio / Philip Ursprung -- Herzog & de Meuron and Gerhard Richter's Atlas / Catherine Hurzeler -- Housing Remains: Herzog & de Meuron and Performance / Rebecca Schneider -- Architecture in Itself Doesn't Interest Me / Philip Ursprung -- Imprints and Moulds: Portfolio / Philip Ursprung -- The Drapery of Sidewalks / Georges Didi-Huberman -- Speculative Architecture: On the Aesthetics of Herzog & de Meuron / Robert Kudielka -- Building the Life Drive: Architecture as Repetition / Peggy Phelan -- Models of a Hidden Geometry of Nature: Karl Blossfeldt's "Meurer Bronzes" / Ulrike Meyer Stump -- Interlocking Spaces: Portfolio / Philip Ursprung -- Houses of the Engadine Valley / Kurt W. Forster -- On Richard Artschwager / Richard Armstrong -- Beauty and Atmosphere: Portfolio / Philip Ursprung -- Ornament and Motion: Science and Art in Gottfried Semper's Theory of Adornment / Carrie Asman -- Atmosphere as the Subject Matter of Architecture / Gernot Bohme -- Beauty as Visibility / Boris Groys -- Works, 1978-2002.