1) Benedikt and Zumthor both talk about the experience of architecture and the emotions that different atmospheres present to us. Zumthor begins talking more of how to create these atmospheres while explaining how certain aspects are attainable through architecture. Benedikt looks more at atmospheres and how it is able to affect one's mood and not create it entirely.
2) It comes across that 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. He also goes on to explain materials to be endless because of all the ways that they can be spaced, manipulated and applied. Serra on the other hand wishes to create a space with a more upfront experience which would be noticed by its viewers and not really had to be thought into.
3) Architecture is mostly about the experience that is had within it, but it is also about where it is at on the site, also the physical beauty and its appeal to its viewers, and the last thing that affects everything is the funding that is place and the restrictions it puts into place. All of these could have an effect on how a building is designed or constructed.
4) Seeing beauty in the created architecture is not always an easy thing to accomplish. Beauty, in architecture, must has to incorporate several needs in order to earn such a label. The building has to be: first be practical, functional, and serve a purpose. All the while doing so, the building has to have an aesthetic appeal. Just because it does not appeal to everyone does not mean it does not appeal to the owner. As the saying goes, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which for the most part is always true. Otherwise the process has to be redone.
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