Make it typical!
Subtitle: A small atlas of architectural atmospheres
By: Atelier Zumthor - Ivan Beer - Alberto Julio Fresco - Anita Lara Bulloni
Contributors: Nicola Emery, Margherita Turewicz-Lafranchi
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Mendrisio, [Switzerland]
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Zumthor, Peter.; Architecture -- Switzerland -- History -- 20th century.
Genres: Architecture; philosophy
First sentence: Phenomenology = felt experience. 

Memorable architectural moods are familiar to all of us. A certain picture 
has left its mark on our memory, a particular combination of place and 
building, of nature or landscape and constructed object, of outside 
space and inside space. Maybe a room, a sequence of rooms, a building, 
a square in the city... The remembered picture speaks of great intensity 
and presence. Something unique that makes the impression of having 
been perfectly formed to match a particular use and a particular place...
Description: The annual course 02/03 proposes drafting a small phenomenology of typical, perhaps even archetypal architectural situations. The design credo reads: make it typical, then it will become special!