Mario Botta - biography
Who is Mario Botta?
Born in 1943-04-01 Mendrisio
is a Swiss architect. He studied at the Liceo Artistico in Milan and the IUAV in Venice. His ideas were influenced by Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn. He opened his own practice in 1970 in Lugano. He worked at La Scala's theatre renovation, which proved controversial as preservationists feared that historic details would be lost.
Recommended sights of Mario Botta
Artchitects with related style
- Andrea Palladio (12)
- Jacopo Sansovino (6)
- Michelangelo Buonarroti (6)
- Vincenzo Scamozzi (5)
- Bartolomeo Bon (4)
- Juan Bautista de Toledo (3)
- Santiago Calatrava (3)
- Leon Battista Alberti (3)
- Hendrick de Keyser (3)
- Giacomo della Porta (3)
- Mauro Coducci (Codussi) (3)
- Daniel Stalpert (2)
- Piotr Barbon (2)
- Íñigo Jones (2)
- Baccio Pontelli (2)
- Giovanni Bon (2)
- Filippo Brunelleschi (2)
- Lorenz van Steenwinckel (2)
- Arnolfo di Cambio (2)
- Henning Larsen (2)
- Pieter de Keyser (2)
- Baldassarre Longhena (2)
- Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger (2)
- Rafael Santi (2)
- Gian Antonio Selva (2)
- Carlo Maderna (2)
- Domenico da Cortona (2)
- Giovanni Battista di Quadro (2)
- Donato Bramante (2)
- Giuseppe Benoni (1)
- Juan de Alviz (1)
- Martien van Goor (1)
- Otto Käszner (1)
- Jo Coenen (1)
- Paul Robbrecht (1)
- Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder (1)
- Claude Perrault (1)
- José de Churriguera (1)
- Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (1)
- Miquel Oliver (1)
- André Le Nôtre (1)
- Diego de Siloé (1)
- Jerónimo de Ruão (1)
- Baldassare Peruzzi (1)
- Willem van den Blocke (1)
- Carlo Scarpa (1)
- Pedro de Alviz (1)
- Kisho Kurokawa (1)
- Adriaan Dortsman (1)
- Giuseppe Maria Soli (1)
- Robert Smythson (1)
- Juan de Álava (1)
- Sebastiano del Piombo (1)
- Zygmunt Gorgolewski (1)
- William Chambers (1)
- Giovanni Battista Castello (1)
- Bartomeu Calafat (1)
- Josep Puig i Cadafalch (1)
- José Contreras (1)
- Marc Safont (1)
- Juan de Maena (1)
- Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1)
- Santi Gucci (1)
- Gustav Albert Wegmann (1)
- Philibert de l'Orme (1)
- Aristotile Fioravanti (1)
- Giorgio Spavento (1)
- Pietro Lombardo (1)
- Antonio da Ponte (1)
- Michelozzo di Bartolommeo (1)
- Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (1)
- Sir Christopher Wren (1)
- Jan Zawiejski (1)
- William Tallman (1)
- Władysław Hirszel (1)
- Niccolo Matas (1)
- Mario Botta (1)
- Bartomeu Roig (1)
- Rafael Contreras (1)
- João de Castilho (1)
- Jan Maria Padovano (1)
- Daniele da Volterra (1)
- Jakob Friedrich Wanner (1)
- Tadao Ando (1)
- Franciszek Mączyński (1)
- Gerrit Rietveld (1)
- Erik Møller (1)
- Jørn Utzon (1)
- Frode Rinnan (1)
- Antonio Cordiani (1)
- Giorgio Vasari (1)
- Piotr Krasowski (1)
- George London (1)
- Giovannino de Dolci (1)
- Pere Bauçá (1)
- Miquel Garriga i Roca (1)
- Enrique Egas (1)
- Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1)
- Diogo de Torralva (1)
- Reiner van Amsterdam (1)