The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted so
The 1995 Mario Botta-designed building with the 2016 Snøhetta-designed addition behind it
Henri Matisse. Femme au Chapeau (Woman with a Hat), 1905.
Yayoi Kusama, Dreaming of Earth's Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love installation at SFMOMA, 2024–2025.
Mario Botta's "giant black-and-white striped silo...sliced on the bias, topped by a 130-foot-high elliptical skylight," at once became "the museum's trademark."
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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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…best art museums in the U.S. The museum was founded in 1935 with galleries in the Veterans Building in Civic Center. In 1995, the museum opened in its Mario Botta-designed home in the SoMa district. On May 14, 2016, following a three-year-long closure for a major expansion project by Snøhetta architects, the…
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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