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	Mario Botta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mario Botta (born April 1, 1943) is a famous modern architect born in Mendrisio, Ticino canton, Switzerland.
		He designed his first house at age 16, although no-one mentions if it was built, and studied at the Liceo Artistico in Milan and the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice.
		Swiss Architecture by Mario Botta at the Francisco Marroquín University
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mario_Botta (307 words)

	Botta’s San Carlino: an example of a new kind of monument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Botta affirms: “The project to reconstruct the San Carlino, was born in Lugano in 1999, to celebrate the 400 years after the birth of Francesco Borromini.
		The Museo Cantonale of Lugano, the Hertziana of Rome and the Albertina of Vienna agree on the commemoration on Borromini.
		Mario Botta, with his wooden model of San Carlino, has realized a modern reading of a Baroque work, and he has given to San Carlino a voice in the context and in the territory where Borromini had his one’s early youth.
	www.generativeart.com /papersga2003/a31.htm (2394 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| Mario Botta's buildings
		Botta was a student at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice when Le Corbusier set up an office in the city to design a new hospital.
		I asked Botta, who was in London to give a talk marking the opening of Architetture del Sacro last month, if designs of his such as a skyscraping commercial tower in downtown Seoul were "ethical".
		Botta's buildings are characterised by their immense solidity, their confident handling of stone and marble, their sheer materiality.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1670423,00.html (1401 words)

	Chapel of Santa Maria degli Angeli
		Mario Botta has built his strong reputation utilizing platonic forms with slotted openings and strong materiality, particularly brick.
		Botta's career parallel's Corbu's in many ways, especially the evolution of forms from ideal to expressive and a strong dialectic of practical and artistic considerations.
		While it is premature to equate Botta with Le Corbusier, especially since an architect's greatness comes long after passing, the paths that each has taken indicates a strong artistry and the validity of the primitive in art and architecture.
	www.archidose.org /Jul99/070599.html (521 words)

	VRMAG - MARIO BOTTA’S ANGELI CHAPEL ON MONTE TAMARO, SWITZERLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mario Botta, arguably the most famous living Swiss architect, worked as an assistant to both Le Corbusier and Louis I. Kahn.
		Botta states that "Every architectural work has its own environment...The first action involved in doing architecture is the consideration of its territory".
		Botta collaborated with artist Enzo Cucchi, who painted the beautiful frescos inside, one of which is 70 meters long, to create this renowned masterpiece.
	vrm.vrway.com /issue14/MARIO_BOTTA_S_ANGELI_CHAPEL_ON_MONTE_TAMARO_SWITZERLAND.html (827 words)

	Lost City Arts Designer Mario Botta
		Mario Botta (1943-), Swiss architect and designer, born Mendrisio, Ticino, and active Lugano.
		Botta began to study technical drawing in 1958 under architects Tita Carloni and Luigi Camenisch.
		Botta had become an international celebrity by the 1980s, when he was awarded the commission to design the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco.
	www.lostcityarts.com /designers/showcase/botta.htm (185 words)

	Alibris: Mario Botta
		Mario Botta's villas, schools, banks, office and administrativebuildings, museums and churches are structures of extraordinaryvisual power.
		The Chapel of Monte Tamaro by Botta and Cucchi
		Mario Botta believes that 'architecture is an ethical discipline before it is an aesthetic one'.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Botta,Mario (694 words)

	RIBA: Mario Botta at the RIBA: first UK exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On 22 November 2005, Mario Botta will give a lecture at the RIBA where, through his most recent work, he will focus on the impact of building, both on its immediate urban environment, and the society which inhabits it.
		Botta is concerned with the idea that architecture comes into being with light; a fundamental concept in his work.
		Mario Botta will speak at the RIBA’s Jarvis Hall on Tuesday 22 November at 7pm, as part of the RIBA Trust Talks programme.We regret that tickets for the talk are sold out.
	www.riba.org /go/RIBA/News/Press_5030.html (625 words)

	Mario Botta at ArBITAT Architects
		Botta was trained as a technical draftsman before he studied at the Liceo Artistico in Milan.
		Botta's works characteristically show respect for topographical conditions and regional sensibilities and his designs generally emphasize craftsmanship and geometric order.
		Because he attempts to reconcile traditional architectural symbolism with the aesthetic rules of the Modern Movement, Botta is often identified with the Italian neo-rationalist group, the Tendenaz.
	www.arbitat.com /architects/botta (192 words)

	SFMOMA TURNS 10 / Architecture for all times / Mario Botta measures how his design adapts to institutional needs and a ...
		Mario Botta, the Italian Swiss architect who designed the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, considers the building he completed 10 years ago a cathedral of art.
		Botta's brand of mystic modernism was influenced by Ticino's Romanesque architecture and his Venetian mentor Carlo Scarpa's love of classicism and the baroque.
		In the end, perhaps Botta's SFMOMA is a kind of ancient echo: With its Palladian symmetry, its cross-shaped windows and Moorish overtures in a contemporary shell, it is a Babylonian ziggurat and not a modern building at all -- simply one for the ages.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/22/HOGB7ASUU31.DTL (1094 words)

	Santa Maria degli Angeli Monte Tamaro by Mario Botta
		On the furthest extremity of this building, hanging at an altitude of 1500 meters, is a mechanic structure of chains and pulleys carrying a Bell.
		It is said that Botta had the whole mountain to choose a place for the building; in a very practical move the chapel was located close to the cable car station at the top.
		Mario Botta's own website provides information and photographs at www.botta.ch.
	www.galinsky.com /buildings/montetamaro (614 words)

	Museum Tinguely - The Museum - Mario Botta
		Mario Botta’s architecture is known throughout Europe, the United States and the Far East.
		Since 1970, Mario Botta has also taken on intensive teaching and research activities, holding conferences, seminars and courses in architecture at numerous schools for architecture.
		Within the framework of the foundation of the University of Ticino (Italian part of Switzerland), he developed the curriculum of the new Academy for Architecture in Mendrisio, in the Canton of Ticino, where he has lectured since its inauguration in 1996.
	www.tinguely.ch /en/museum/mario_botta.html (204 words)

	Mario Botta - Great Buildings Online
		Born in Mendrisio, Switzerland in 1943, Botta trained as a technical draftsman before he studied at the Liceo Artistico in Milan.
		Essentially Modernist in approach, Mario Botta has been strongly influenced by both Carlo Scarpa and Louis Kahn.
		Botta built exclusively in Switzerland during his early career, gaining international acclaim for such buildings as the Capuchin convent in Lugano, the Craft Centre in Balerna and the Administration Building for the Staatsbank in Fribourg.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Mario_Botta.html (343 words)

	Mario Botta. Church in Seriate. 2004 \| Floornature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A gigantic "stone flower" reaching up to the sky to capture sunlight: this is the most evocative image of the new church in Seriate, in the province of Bergamo, designed by Mario Botta between 1994 and 2000.
		Botta's choices reflect his concept of the church as a place which must withstand the test of time, not subject to fleeting whims and fads.
		This is one of the reasons why he chose Verona marble, wood and gold, materials reminiscent of the churches of the past, rather than the innovative materials and light colours in vogue in architecture today.
	www.floornature.it /worldaround/articolo.php/art410/3/en (472 words)

	INTERNATIONAL GUESTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the context of the constitution of the new Swiss Italian University in 1996, he was appointed to define the program and institution for the new Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio; since October 1996, he is in charge of teaching activities.
		Mario Botta’s large-scale urban projects build upon many of the formal themes developed in his recidences and, like them, express hid preocupation with historical and enviorment context – the urban landscape, local building tradition, and past and present culture.
		One of the strongest designers of urban buildings in the world, Botta is noted for his influential role in the revitalization of modernist architecture.
	www.arquired.com.mx /fpaa2000/botta-in.ared (803 words)

	Banca del Gottardo, Lucarno, Switzerland by Mario Botta
		The Banca del Gottardo is located in the outskirts of the historic center, in an area where the compact form of Lugano becomes dispersed into suburban single family houses.
		Following the seminal ideas developed during the project and construction of the Ransilla I project (1985) in the center of town, Botta embarks into no less than the redefinition of the role of architecture in the shaping of the city.
		For Botta Architecture is the building block of urbanism not only in the formal but also in the social sense of the word.
	www.galinsky.com /buildings/gotardo (513 words)

	SFMOMA Press Room \| Architect
		Botta’s large-scale urban projects build upon many of the formal themes developed in his residences and, like them, express his preoccupation with historical and environmental context—the urban landscape, local building tradition and past and present culture.
		Botta’s direct contact with Scarpa, Le Corbusier and Kahn during his formative years proved to have a great influence on his development as an architect.
		Botta’s award-winning work has been the subject of several monographs, as well as the survey exhibition Mario Botta, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and presented at SFMOMA in 1987.
	www.sfmoma.org /press/pressroom.asp?do=architect (691 words)

	RIBA Bookshops - Monographs > European Architects: Mario BottaPrayers in Stone .
		Swiss architect Mario Botta, whose first ever exhibition in the UK, The Architecture of the Sacred: Prayers in Stone, opens to the public at The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) on 23 November, will actually complete the display himself when he comes to London to open the event.
		The exhibition — Mario Botta: The Architecture of the Sacred: Prayers in Stone — is a display of twelve “sacred spaces”, which make up a unique body of work.
		Mario Botta is concerned with the idea that architecture comes into being with light.
	www.ribabookshops.com /site/viewtitle.asp?pid=6037 (450 words)

	Discussion List: Botta / Death of Postmodernism
		Botta is a kind of architectural Godfather (in a polytheistic system though).
		Even the interviewer himself seems to be shocked, turning his questioning quickly towards something more positive: what would Mario Botta take with him into the ark? Le Corbusier, of course, is - as always - the answer, "because he was capable to transform the events of life into architecture." (whatever this may mean).
		For roughly twenty years now, Mario Botta and other 'postmodernists' have hatched their pseudo-poetic stuff into the heads of architectural students worldwide.
	home.worldcom.ch /~negenter/486aDL_BottaEndPoMo_01.html (1143 words)

	Amazon.com: The Ethics of Building: Books: Mario Botta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This book answers these questions in three chapters, revolving?around the themes of city, architecture and design.?To Botta, the most primary and important task of the house is?to protect and comfort; it is the place where the individual can?find himself.
		Botta, who understands himself more as a «man of the construction?site"than as a theoretician, consequently underpins this?discourse with examples of his own sketches which make his visionary?ideas vivid and plastic.
		Mario Botta's Ethics of Building is the?confession of a Mediterranean architect whose enduring merit it?is to have rediscovered for us the primordial and elementary states?and needs of mankind, and to have given these form in exceptional?buildings.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3764357428?v=glance (696 words)

	Botta - new and used books
		Paperback.A detailed and important study of the internationally renowned architect, covering his buildings and projects in their entirety, including the earliest works, and revealing thus the two most important influences on his thinking: Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn.
		Botta, Mario and Dal Co, Franceso - MARIO BOTTA: ARCHITECTURE.
		Botta was an Italian-born French historian and politician who supported Napoleon.
	www.isbn.pl /A-botta (411 words)

	Amazon.com: Mario Botta : Architectural Poetics (Universe Architecture Series): Books: Irena Sakellaridou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mario Botta: Architectural Poetics is the newest book in the Universe architecture series.
		Mario Botta: Architectural Poetics is a thorough survey of the architectural and design work that launched Botta into the pantheon of modern architecture.
		She has comprehensively studied and written about the work of Botta, and most recently she has collaborated with Botta on several major design projects.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0789305461?v=glance (586 words)

	Una Casa
		Mario Botta is a modern architect exploring the use of these materials in contemporary architecture.
		though we are not attracted to the overall form of this residenc e, we are intrigued by Botta's use of masonry block for a number of different applications.
		Bricks and masonry blocks are used as decoration, flat and curving wall, column, as crenelated wall, as staircase and floor.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~struct/resources/case_studies/case_studies_mass/botta_casa/botta_casa.html (813 words)

	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
		Mario Botta's new building for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened in 1995 and became an instant architectural landmark.
		The elegant brick façade and striated turret is an icon in the city's skyline and its light-filled galleries and striking central staircase are now as big an attraction to visitors as the art presented within.
		As Mario Botta says: ''In museums, the real challenge is to discover that perfect balance where the architecture and art enrich one another''.
	www.gingkopress.com /_cata/_arch/sfmoma1.htm (138 words)

	Arcosanti : Project : Activities : Administration : Italian Project
		Architects Mario Botta and Gabriele Cappellato are collaborating with Cosanti Foundation’s Italian Project to introduce second, third and fourth year, as well as graduate level architecture students to Arcosanti’s internship program.
		Botta visited Arcosanti for four days in October 2002, meeting with Soleri and different departments so that future programs in publication, education, and research can be developed.
		During his visit in Arizona, Botta also gave a lecture at Arizona State University sponsored by Cosanti Foundation and Rio Salado Foundation, and attended a successful conference with architects Paolo Soleri, Jeff Cook and Tony Brown, hosted by Arcosanti.
	www.arcosanti.org /project/activities/administration/italianProject/svizzera2003.html (229 words)

	VRMAG - MARIO BOTTA, A VIRTUAL EXPLORATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Commissioned by the city of Lugano, the bus terminal canopy changes color according to the season (blue, white, pink and violet).
		The original church was destroyed in an avalanche in 1986 and rebuilt by Botta, as a present to the village.
		Botta designed the chairlift station, resembling a translucent lantern, the pavilion at the top of the mountain and the tear-drop shaped cable car.
	vrm.vrway.com /issue08/MARIO_BOTTA_A_VIRTUAL_EXPLORATION.html (500 words)

	Discoveritalia - Notebook of events - Mario Botta. Light and gravity. Buildings 1993-2003 Padova (PD)
		Mario Botta, one of the European architects that influenced, and still does, contemporary architecture in all its aspects the most, is the guest, from 12th December 2003 to 15th February 2004, at the Palazzo della Ragione in Padova.
		Visitors will witness a great, absolutely enthralling confrontation, between the large, frescoed Hall and the clear, geometrical, passionate and perfectly balanced atmosphere surrounding Mario Botta's creations.
		This event is the chance to analyze the last ten years of Mario Botta's career, from 1993 to 2003.
	www.discoveritalia.com /agenda/schedaEvento.asp?IDevento=4884&lingua=en (224 words)

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