Mario Botta
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Mario Botta is a Swiss architect. 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 th
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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
Carlo Scarpa
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Carlo Scarpa was an Italian architect and designer. He was influenced by the materials, landscape, and history of Venetian culture, as well as those of Japan. Scarpa translated his interests in histor
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…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 architects Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier. Botta started his own architectural practice in Lugano in 1970. Botta designed his first building, a two-family house at…
Scarpa studying the drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright in Venice (1954)
Castelvecchio Museum stairs by Scarpa
Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1982 (Fondo Paolo Monti, BEIC).
Olivetti on St Mark's Square, Venice