Mario Botta is a Swiss architect. Born in 1943 in Mendrisio, Switzerland, he studied at Università Iuav di Venezia. His buildings are very geometric, very sculptural. I dare say I’ve got a new favorite architect. In a sense there’s a rethinking of Brutalist architecture – which I, and I know I’m alone in that camp, really like.
MOMA Museum of Modern Art
1995, San Francisco, California
Theatre of Architecture
2005, Mendrisio, Switzerland
Parish of the Holy Face
2006, Turin, Italy
Tschuggen Bergoase
2006, Arosa, Switzerland
Clubhouse
2008, Agora, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea
Campari – Area San Giovanni
2009, Milan, Italy
Winery Château Faugères
2009, Saint Emilion, France
Church Santa Maria Nuova
2010, Terranuova, Bracciolini, Italy
Winery Moncucchetto
2010, Lugano, Switzerland
Building Fluoriporta
2011, Mendrisio Switzerland
Humanities and Social Sciences Library of the Tsinghua University
2011, Beijing, China
Garnet Chapel
2013, Penkenjoch, Zillertal, Australia
Office Building<br> 2013, Genk, Belgium
Restaurant Fiore Di Pietra
2013, Stenblume, Switzerland
Faculty of Biology and Biomedicine of the University of Paduo
2014, Paduo, Italy
Security Forces Centre
2016, Mendrisio, Switzerland
Tsinghua Art Museum Tsinghua Univeristy
2016, Beijing, China
Cosmopolitan Chicken Project
2019, Genk, Belgium
Like all great architects, he has also designed furniture. You can see his line of furniture here. Can’t say I’m familiar with any but I do believe I’ve seen Stool Clessidra “Hourglass” before.
[…] Five a group of 5 architects who were featured in the 1972 book Five Architects. Where I said Mario Botta was all about shapes, and Ole Scheeren height, I’d want to say Eisenman is all about angles […]