An increasingly aestheticized society has inevitably changed architecture’s role and function. By some enthusiastically embraced as a longed-for recognition of architecture’s scenographic, artistic or entertaining potentials, this change has also given rise to a scepti- cism as to the role of slippery aesthetics and a subsequent recall of a more decent, tectonic “form-power”. But do architects necessarily have to be either uncritically engulfed by aesthetics or the obstinate defenders of a decent, but boring, alternative? A constructive answer to this question, however, requires a critique of aesthetics as formal or normative order, in favor of a performative, view of aesthetics as a means to do justice to a ‘disorderly’ world.