‘As post-idealistic children of the 1968 generation, we do not recognise a single great truth, but find in the fractures of reality a ground in which to anchor architecture. This is the radicalism that we derived from Venturi’s ‘both-and’ principle. But both-and should not be mistaken as being arbitrary or indecisive. Behind and within it lies the recognition of equitable values, and a longing for an architecture that renounces dogma, opening itself to the freedom of possibility.’ Mathias Müller and Daniel Niggli are principals of EM2N, the practice they established in 1997. They are currently Visiting Professors at ETH Zurich, where they both received their doctorate in 1996. In 2004 they received the Swiss Federal Art Award for Architecture. Both partners lecture in Europe, the US and China.