Mario Botta
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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.
First construction of Mario Botta 1961–1963. Parish house in Genestrerio
Church of St. John the Baptist in the Swiss town of Mogno
Évry Cathedral in Évry, France
Mendrisio
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Mendrisio is a municipality in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Mendrisio during the winter
Classicist Church of SS. Cosma e Damiano
Casa Croci, a villa built in 1873 as the town grew wealthy from factories.
Mendrisio in the early 70s