E2A Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert Architects has been established by the two brothers in Zurich in 2001. They soon gained national, and increasingly also internationally, recognition for their work in exhibition designs, industrial architecture, public buildings, and housing. American-born photographer Jon Naiman has been studying and documenting E2A's work for many years as a photographic artist. His preferred means for this is black-and-white photography of their architectural models. His carefully conceived images show the entire range of models, from conceptual studies and working materials to highly detailed miniatures of realised buildings, emphasising their formal qualities. Naiman shows experiences urban space, of visual space rather than mere miniature buildings. His pictures oscillate between abstract, almost calligraphic, signs and the perfectly focused depiction of a spatial situation. Silent Form is the conversion of this visual research into book in which utmost care has been given to design and materialisation and the arrangement and sequence of images. An essay on the neuro-biological fundamentals of perception and exemplariness complements the art.