1. How does Peter Zumthor talk about the "Magic of the Real" and explain how this compares, in terms of the subtleties, to Michael Benedikt's "Architecture for Reality"?
Zumthor talks about how to create an atmosphere that can affect one’s mood. He explains how to turn a mood into a physical space, whereas Benedikt talks specifically how an atmosphere can have an effect on one’s mood, not how to create that feeling.
2. Material Compatibility, Temperature of a Space and Levels of Intimacy are some conditions that both Peter Zumthor, in “Atmospheres”, and Richard Serra, in “Weight and Measure”, make a point of articulating when consider space. Where in their explanation of these overlapping conditions are they similar and where do they differ?
It seems as both Zumthor and Serra want to create an influential space, but the processes of each are very different. Zumthor wants to have a great effect on viewers of the space, only without them being completely aware of it. Serra on the other hand would like to create a space with a more obvious experience which would be noticed by its viewers.
3. Zumthor looks towards experiential conditions when creating architecture, what are other methods architects use when generating architecture and what is the corresponding building?
Architecture is much about the experience but it is also about placement on the site, physical beauty and its appeal to its viewers, and it also deals with funding. All of these could have an effect on how a building is designed or constructed. For instance, a millionaire’s home may not have the same burdens of finance in the design stage as a school district. These kinds of situations put forth changes that must be made in the different stages of the design and construction processes.
4. For Zumthor at the end of the day, after figuring use, sound, place, light and the other listed conditions, if the coherence isn’t beautiful the process is started again. Beauty is simultaneously subjective for the individual, as held “in the eye of the beholder”, and universally recognizable. Define your subjective understanding of what beautiful architecture is.
Beauty within architecture is not an easy thing to define. Beauty, in architecture, must fulfill several needs in order to earn such a label. A building must first be practical, functional, and serve a purpose. While doing so, the building must have an aesthetic appeal. It may not appeal to everyone, but at least the builder and client should be able to appreciate its physical beauty as well as its functional beauty.
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