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For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

Mario Botta

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

Tags: architecture, me, people

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

Mario Botta

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

Tags: small, me, building

About Author
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.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

Mario Botta

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

Tags: great, simple, past

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

Mario Botta

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

Tags: man, church, idea

The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of build...

Mario Botta

The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of build...

Tags: history, world, building

In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Sw...

Mario Botta

In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Sw...

Tags: foundation, circumstances

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

Mario Botta

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

Tags: busy, lost, know

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

Mario Botta

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

Tags: spiritual, people, museum