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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1943-04-01 ) 1 April 1943 (age 83) , Mendrisio , Switzerland
- Occupation
- Architect
- Buildings
- National Bank of Greece , Athens , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , Bechtler Museum of Modern Art , Charlotte, NC Kimbrell Fiber Innovation Center , Santa Maria degli Angeli, Monte Tamaro , Switzerland
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Described at
Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mario
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Mendrisio
- Occupation
- designer
- Educated at
- IUAV University of Venice
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Field of work
- architecture
- Movement
- Postmodernism
- Official website
- www.botta.ch
- Image
- Mario Botta - Festival Economia 2016.jpg
- Work location
- Mendrisio
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- Commons category
- Mario Botta
- date of birth
- 1943-00-00
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- Mario Botta
- has works in the collection
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
- copyright representative
- Mario Botta
- floruit
- 2018-01-01
- described at URL
- www.aadfi.it/?accademico=botta-mario
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Encyclopedic overview
Mario Botta (born 1 April 1943) is a Swiss architect. At age fifteen, Botta dropped out of secondary school and apprenticed with the architectural firm of Carloni and Camenisch in Lugano. After three years, he went to the Art College in Milan for his baccalaureate, and then to Università Iuav di Venezia for his professional degree in 1969. During his time in Venice, Botta got to meet and work with architects Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier. Botta started his own architectural practice in Lugano in 1970.
Career
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