One could describe it as a poetic architectural thought to express the fragile relationship of humans to reality in such a way that their works—using Adorno's words—seek the "silent indication of what is beautiful." Concepts such as listening or actualization are closely related to a poetically conceived building. Jörn Köppler presents, against the backdrop of the philosophical development of poetic thinking, how the conception of poetically understood building unfolded in individual works and what perspectives could be derived from this for the architecture of the present.