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Mario Botta

1943 - Today

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Mario Botta is a Swiss architect born in Mendrisio, Ticino on 1 April 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mario Botta is the 71st most popular architect (up from 85th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 89th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Architect.

Mario Botta is most famous for his many modernist buildings in Switzerland, Italy, and France. He is also well known for his work on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Mario Botta ranks 71 out of 518Before him are Ferdinand Cheval, Peter Zumthor, Bruno Taut, Michelozzo, Josef Hoffmann, and François Mansart. After him are Ustad Ahmad Lahori, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Guarino Guarini, Charles Garnier, Albert Speer, and Peter Parler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Mario Botta ranks 61Before him are Helmut Marko, Johann Deisenhofer, Hanna Schygulla, Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, Pervez Musharraf, and Peter Zumthor. After him are Leonardo Sandri, Esma Redžepova, Andreas Baader, Arthur B. McDonald, Masaru Emoto, and Terrence Malick.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Mario Botta ranks 82 out of 1,015Before him are Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740), Heinrich Wölfflin (1864), Peter Zumthor (1943), Félix Vallotton (1865), Roger Federer (1981), and Niklaus Wirth (1934). After him are H. R. Giger (1940), Carl Nägeli (1817), Margareta of Romania (1949), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), and Ernest Bloch (1880).

Among ARCHITECTS In Switzerland

Among architects born in Switzerland, Mario Botta ranks 6Before him are Le Corbusier (1887), Francesco Borromini (1599), Carlo Maderno (1556), Domenico Fontana (1543), and Peter Zumthor (1943). After him are Hannes Meyer (1889), Max Bill (1908), Carlo Fontana (1638), Pietro Lombardo (1435), Bernard Tschumi (1944), and Pierre Jeanneret (1896).