CONTENTS The Freedom of Possibility Ilka & Andreas Ruby How We Became Who We Are A professional biography of EM2N Ilka &Andreas Ruby Mathias Muller, Daniel Niggli Selected Projects, 2000-2009 49 Theater 11 60 Culture and Congress Centre 60 Museum of Modern Art 66 Toni Site 74 Extension Gross House 90 Extension Funkwiesenstrasse 96 Mortuary Hall 100 Conversion Geobotanical Institute, Riibel Foundation 104 Apartment House Zurich-Wollishofen 110 Apartment House Siewerdtstrasse 118 Public Record Office Basel-Landschaft 126 Hotel City Garden 134 Zellweger-Luwa Site 140 Hardau Schools 144 Mongolian School Project 154 Rivergardens Z3 164 Office Building Prague 172 Leutschenbach 52-56 176 Refurbishment Viaduct Arches 184 Hardbriicke Railway Station Upgrading 190 Hide-and-Seek at the Pulse of the City 197 Stanislaus von MOOS Mannerism and the Work of EM2N 204 Pier vittorio Aureii Extracting Value 211 AndreBideau The Building as Generator of the City 217 Gerhard Mack Resistance Required 222 Roger Diener, Mathias MUller, Daniel Niggli, Andreas Ruby List of Works 229 EM2N 233 Authors 234 image Credits 235 imprint 236