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 / An interview with Jeff Wall by Philip Ursprung -- Just waste / Herzog & de Meuron -- Transformation and alienation -- Portfolio / Philip Ursprung and Herzog & de Meuron -- 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 and Herzog & de Meuron -- I make my picture on the surface: visiting Thomas Ruff in Düsseldorf / based on an interview with Thomas Ruff by Philip Ursprung -- Visiting Alfred Richterich in Laufen / Based on interview with Alfred Richterich by Philip Ursprung -- Etienne-Louis Boullee visits the Tate Modern / Adolf Max Vogt -- The alchemical brothers / Alejandro Zaera-Polo -- Stacking and compression -- Portfolio / Philip Ursprung and Herzog & de Meuron -- Herzog & de Meuron and Gerhard Richter's Atlas / Catherine Hürzeler -- Housing remains: Herzog & de Meuron and performance / Rebecca Schneider -- Architecture in itself doesn't interest me / an interview with Remy Zaugg by Philip Ursprung -- Imprints and molds -- Portfolio / Philip Ursprung and Herzog & de Meuron -- 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 and Herzog & de Meuron -- House of the Engadine Valley / Kurt W. Forster -- On Richard Artschwager / Richard Armstrong -- Beauty and atmosphere -- Portfolio / Philip Ursprung and Herzog & de Meuron -- Ornament and motion: science and art in Gottfried Semper's Theory of adornment / Carrie Asman -- Atmosphere as the subject matter of architecture / Gernot Böhme -- Beauty as visibility / Boris Groys -- Works, 1978-2005.