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    Mario Botta is a Swiss architect known for designs that combine modern styles with local traditions. While bringing a sense of order, his buildings also respond to their natural and built environments. Botta was born in Switzerland and studied architecture in Italy. He worked briefly with Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, whose influences of symmetry and geometry are seen in Botta's early single-family homes in Switzerland. As his reputation grew, Botta received commissions for larger projects like civic and museum buildings that allowed him to design for urban environments.

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    Mario Botta is a Swiss architect known for designs that combine modern styles with local traditions. While bringing a sense of order, his buildings also respond to their natural and built environments. Botta was born in Switzerland and studied architecture in Italy. He worked briefly with Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, whose influences of symmetry and geometry are seen in Botta's early single-family homes in Switzerland. As his reputation grew, Botta received commissions for larger projects like civic and museum buildings that allowed him to design for urban environments.

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    Mario Botta is a Swiss architect known for designs that combine modern styles with local traditions. While bringing a sense of order, his buildings also respond to their natural and built environments. Botta was born in Switzerland and studied architecture in Italy. He worked briefly with Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, whose influences of symmetry and geometry are seen in Botta's early single-family homes in Switzerland. As his reputation grew, Botta received commissions for larger projects like civic and museum buildings that allowed him to design for urban environments.

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    Botta, Mario (1943- ), Swiss architect,

    internationally known for highly original designs that combine


    modern architectural styles with local building traditions. While
    imposing a sense of order and clarity, his buildings also respond to
    the natural and the built environment.

    Botta was born in Mendrisio in the Swiss canton of Trisio. He was a


    drafting apprentice in a Lugano building firm from 1958 to 1961, and
    from 1961 to 1964 he studied design at the Liceo Artistico in Milan,
    Italy. From 1964 he studied architecture at the Istituto Universario di
    Architettura in Venice, Italy, graduating in 1969. He worked briefly
    with French architect Le Corbusier in 1965 and with American
    architect Louis I. Kahn in 1969. Kahn’s emphasis on symmetry along
    a central axis and the geometry of Le Corbusier’s work are especially
    evident in Botta’s early works. These are mostly single-family houses
    in Switzerland. A typical example is his Casa Bianchi (1971-1973,
    Riva San Vitale, Switzerland), a simple, geometric volume sliced
    through by a skylight that extends across the roofline along the front
    of the building. Like many of Botta’s houses, the Casa Bianchi
    conforms to the steep Swiss terrain, with an entrance on the top
    floor and lower floors that step down the hillside. Botta carefully
    chose the texture and color of stone and other building materials to
    blend in with the landscape and surrounding buildings. Gradually
    the austere simplicity of his early designs gave way to a more
    complex and expressive style characterized by the use of
    asymmetrical structures and bold colors.

    As his reputation grew, Botta received commissions for larger works,


    projects that allowed him to respond to developed urban
    environments. These commissions include the Administration
    Building, Banque de l’État, Fribourg, Switzerland (1977-1982); offices
    for the Banca del Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland (1982-1988); Evry
    Cathedral, France (1988-1994); the Museum of Modern Art in San
    Francisco, California (1989-1994); and the Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
    (1990). He continued to design single-family houses, his most widely
    praised being the Casa Rotunda at Stabio, Switzerland (1981-1982),
    an upright, brick cylinder punctuated with broad vertical and
    horizontal openings.1

    1"Botta, Mario," Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 99. © 1993-1998 Microsoft


    Corporation. All rights reserved.

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