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Mario Botta
Mario Botta at Swiss Embassy in New Delhi in 2010
Born (1943-04-01) 1 April 1943 (age 81)
Mendrisio, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
OccupationArchitect
BuildingsNational Bank of Greece, Athens
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
Santa Maria degli Angeli, Monte Tamaro, Switzerland

Mario Botta is a Swiss architect born in Mendrisio, Ticino on April 1st, 1943. 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 the architects: Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier. Mario Botta started his own architectural practice in Lugano in 1970.[1]

  1. ^ Wrede, Stuart (1986). Mario Botta. New York: Museum of Modern Art. p. 8. ISBN 0870702580.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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