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Mario Botta
Biographical Note
Mario Botta, architect
Via Beroldingen 26
6850 Mendrisio
Switzerland
Tel: +41 91 972 86 25
Fax: +41 91 970 14 54
email: [email protected]
website: www.botta.ch
Works
Houses and residential complexes
Since 1965
Individual family homes, Ticino, Switzerland
1986-1992
Residential and commercial building, Centro 5 Continenti, Lugano Paradiso,
Switzerland
1988-1991
Administrative and residential buildings, Bellinzona, Switzerland
1988-1993
Housing complex, Novazzano, Switzerland
1990-1999
Offices and housing, La Fortezza, Maastricht, Holland
1992-1996
Residential buildings, Monte Carasso, Switzerland
1992-1997
Old people’s home, Novazzano, Switzerland
1991/97-2002
Houses and villa, Bernaggio, Milano, Italy
2000-2002
Holiday homes, Cardada, Ticino, Switzerland
2000-2008
“La Vista” housing, Haarlemmermeer, Holland
2005-2010
Residential housing, Sesto San Giovanni, Milano, Italy
Administrative buildings
1977-1981
State Bank, Fribourg, Switzerland
1981-1985
Administrative building, Ransila I, Lugano, Switzerland
1982-1988
Gothard Bank, Lugano, Switzerland
1986-1993
Caimato administration building, Lugano-Cassarate, Switzerland
1986-1995
UBS Bank, Basel, Switzerland
1987/93-1996
Banque Bruxelles Lambert, Geneva, Switzerland
1988-1998
Swisscom building, Bellinzona, Switzerland
1989-1995/96
Kyobo office tower, Busan, Daegu, South Korea
1991-2003
Kyobo Tower, Seoul, South Korea
1996-2002
TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) building, Noida, New Delhi, India
1999-2001
Harting administrative headquarters, Minden, Germany
1999-2001
National Bank of Greece, Athens
1999-2003
TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) building, Deccan Park, Hyderabad, India
2001-2006
National Insurance headquarters, Athens
2003-2008
Headquarters of the national association of builders, Lecco, Italy
2005-2008
Office towers, Vimodrone, Milano, Italy (phase 1)
2005-2009
“Ex-Campari” offices, Sesto San Giovanni, Milano, Italy
1998-2009
“De Nieuwe Poort” housing and offices, Deventer, Holland
2008-2011
Offices, Mendrisio, Switzerland (new office “Studio architetto Mario Botta)
Public buildings
1972-1977
1986/96-2001
1990-1991
1990/98-2001
1991-1998
1993-2000
1993-1998
1993-2004
1996
1997-2000
1998-2001
1998-2004
1999-2003
2000-2001
2001-2004
1990-2006
2003-2006
2006-2008
2005-2009
Secondary school, Morbio Inferiore, Switzerland
Il Giardino della Pilotta, redesign of the Pilotta gardens, Parma, Italy
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Tent for 700 anniversary of the Swiss Confederation
National sports centre, Tenero, Switzerland
Piazzale alla Valle shopping centre, Mendrisio, Switzerland
Scientific secondary school, Citta della Pieve, Italy
Service area, Piotta, Switzerland, San Gotthard motorway, Switzerland
Motorway noise barriers, A2 Motorway, Chiasso, Switzerland
Monument for the Cumbre de las Americas à Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
New funicular station, Cardada, Switzerland
Funicular station and restaurant Glacier 3000, Diablerets, Switzerland
Tour de Moron, Malleray, Switzerland
Petra winery, Suvereto, Italy
Bus station, Lugano, Switzerand
Nursery school, Rosa, Italy
Campione d’Italia Casino, Italy
Wellness Centre Bergoase, Tschuggen Grand Hotel, Arosa, Switzerland
Agora, Jeju Island, South Korea
Cave Château Faugères, Saint-Emilion, France
Museums and cultural buildings
1985-1990
Art gallery Watari-um, Tokyo, Japan
1989-1995
SFMOMA Modern Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
1993-1996
Jean Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland
1992/97-2000
Friedrich Dürrenmatt Centre, Neuchatel, Switzerland
1988/93-2002
MART Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Trento and Rovereto, Italy
1995-2001
Noah's Ark sculpture garden, Jerusalem, Israel (with Niki de Saint Phalle)
1996-2003
Extension and renovation of the library of the Querini Stampalia Foundation,
Venice, Italy
1997-2003
Martin Bodmer Foundation– museum and library, Cologny, Switzerland
1995-2004
Leeum - Samsung Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2000/05-2009
Bechtler Art Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Libraries and theatres
1976-1979
1982-1987
1984-1988
1995-1999
1995-2004
2001-2004
1992-2006
2008-2011
Religious buildings
1986/92-1995
1987-1992
1987-1995
1988-1995
1990-1995
1994-2004
1996-1998
1999-2003
2001-2002
2001-2006
2005-2010
Library of the Capuchin convent, Lugano, Switzerland
André Malraux theatre and community arts centre, Chambery, France
Media library, Villeurbanne, France
Public library, Dortmund, Germany
Tiraboschi library, Bergamo, Italy
Renovation of the Scala, Milano, Italy
Werner Oechslin library, Einsiedeln, Switzerland
Library of Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Church of San Giovanni Battista, Mogno, Switzerland
Church of Beato Odorico, Pordenone, Italy
Church of San Pietro Apostolo, Sartirana di Merate-Milano, Italy
Cathédrale de la Résurrection, Evry, France
Chapel Santa Maria degli Angeli, Monte Tamaro, Ticino, Switzerland
Pope John XXIII Church, Seriate, Bergamo, Italy
The Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
San Carlino, wooden model of Borromini’s Church of San Carlo alle Quattro
Fontane, Lugano, Switzerland
Chapel for the cemetery of Azzano de Seravezza, Italy. Commissioned by the
Mite Giannetti D’Angiolo ONLUS Foundation
Church of Santo Volto, Torino, Italy
Church of Santa Maria Nuova, Terranuova Bracciolini, Italy
Selected bibliography
Mario Botta. Architettura 1960-1985, a cura di Francesco Dal Co', Electa, Milano 1985 (trad. francese,
Mario Botta. Architectures 1960-1985, Electa-Moniteur, Paris 1985; trad. inglese, Mario Botta.
Architectures 1960-1985,Rizzoli, New York 1986).
Stuart Wrede, Mario Botta, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1986.
Christian Norberg-Schulz e Mirko Zardini, Mario Botta, ‘GA Global Architecture Architect’, 3, (A.D.A.
Tokyo) 1984.
Francesco Dal Co', Architecture of Mario Botta, ‘A+ U Architecture and Urbanism’, (Tokyo) 1986, 9,
pp. 177-206.
Emilio Pizzi, Mario Botta. Works and projects, Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona 1991 (re- edited 1997).
Emilio Pizzi, Mario Botta The Complete Works Volume 1,2,3, Birkhäuser-Verlag fur Architektur, BaselBoston-Berlin 1993-94-97.
Mario Botta. Ethics of building, ed. Benedetto Gravagnuolo, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel- Boston-Berlin
1997.
AA.VV., Mario Botta. Public Buildings, Skira Editore, Milan 1998. Philip Jodidio, Mario Botta, Benedikt
Taschen Verlag, Köln 2003.
Mario Botta. Modelli di architettura, con un saggio di Werner Oechslin, Centro studi dell'abitare
OIKOS-Alinea Editrice, Bologna-Firenze 2000 (ed. it/engl.).
Irena Sakellaridou, Mario Botta. Architectural Poetics, Rizzoli Universe Publishing, Milan- New York
2000 - Thames and Hudson, London 2001.
Mario Botta, edited by Zhi Wenjun e Zhu Guangyu, Dalian Science and Technology University Press,
Dalian 2003 (book in Chinese language).
Mario Botta, Quasi un diario, Collana Atelier diretta da Stefano Crespi, Casa Editrice Le Lettere,
Firenze 2003.
Mario Botta, edited by Aurora Cuito - Loft Publications, teNeues Publishing Group, Düsseldorf - New
York - West Byfleet - Paris 2003. Mario Botta,Light and Gravity with text by Giuliano Gresleri, Lionello
Puppi, Heinrich Thelen, Prestel Publishing, Munich, September 2004.
Mario Botta, The Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center, Tel Aviv University, with text by
Norbert Cymbalista, Aron Dotan, Roman Hollenstein, Skira Editore, Milan/Geneva 2001.
Mario Botta, Il Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Skira Editore, Milano
2003 (id. ed. francese/inglese).
Il Teatro alla Scala, Restauro e ristrutturazione, a cura di Luca Molinari, con testi di Mario Botta,
Elisabetta Fabbri, Franco Malgrande e Gillo Dorfles, Skira Editore, Milano/Ginevra 2005.
Mario Botta. Architetture del Sacro Preghiere di Pietra [catalogo mostra), a cura di Gabriele
Cappellato, con testi di Mario Botta, Timothy Verdon, Aldo Colonetti, Alda Merini, Editrice Compositori,
Bologna 2005; (ed. inglese Mario Botta Architetture del Sacro Prayers in Stone, Editrice Compositori,
Bologna 2005).
Mario Botta Architektur und Gedächtnis Wege zur Architektur 2 (Gespräch zwischen Mario Botta und
Brigitte Labs-Ehlert Wege durch das Land-Literatur-und Musikfest in Ostwestfalen- Lippe), FSB Franz
Schneider, Brakel Dezember 2005.
Mario Botta e Dario Fertilio, La lingua degli angeli, Skira Editore, Milano 2006.
Dove abitano le emozioni, intervista/dialogo fra Mario Botta, Paolo Crepet con Giuseppe Zois, Giulio
Einaudi editore, Torino settembre 2007.
Mario Botta La chiesa del Santo Volto a Torino, Skira Editore, Ginevra-Milano, dicembre 2007.
Mario Botta, Luce e Gravità: Architetture 1993-2007, a cura di Gabriele Cappellato, con testi di Mario
Botta, Giuliano Gresleri, Lionello Puppi, Heinrich Thelen, Editrice Compositori, Bologna 2008
(riedizione aggiornata).
Mario Botta. Architetture 1960-2010, (catalogo mostra), Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di
Trento e Rovereto, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, Milano settembre 2010.
Mario Botta. Architecture et mémoire/Architektur und Gedächtnis, (catalogo mostra), Centro
Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, Milano marzo 2011.