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    Mario Botta: Watari-um Project in Tokyo 1985-1990

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    Mario Botta

    Swiss architect, born 1943

    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. Mario Botta started his own architectural practice in Lugano in 1970.[1]

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    Botta designed his first building, a two-family house at Morbio Superiore in Ticino, at age 16. He graduated from the Università Iuav di Venezia (1969).[2] While the arrangement of spaces in this structure is inconsistent, its relationship to its site, separation of living from service spaces, and deep window recesses echo of what would become his stark, str

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    1980-1981, Single-family house,
    Viganello, Switzerland
      
    1980-1982, Single-family house,
    Stabio, Switzerland
      
    1981-1982, Single-family house,
    Origlio, Switzerland
      
    1981-1985, Building Ransila 1,
    Lugano, Switzerland
      
    1982-1983, Single-family house,
    Morbio Superiore, Switzerland
      
    1982-1987, Theater and cultural centre André Malraux,
    Chambéry, France
      
    1982-1988, BSI bank (ex Banca del Gottardo),
    Lugano, Switzerland
      
    1984-1988, Library, Villeurbanne, France
      
    1984-1988, Single-family house,
    Breganzona, Switzerland
      
    1985-1990, Art gallery Watari-Um, Tokyo, Japan
      
    1986-1988,