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Mario Botta

1943 - Today

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Mario Botta is a Swiss architect born in Mendrisio, Ticino on 1 April 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mario Botta has received more than 264,741 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Mario Botta is the 85th most popular architect (down from 84th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 81st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Architect.

Mario Botta is most famous for his many modernist buildings in Switzerland, Italy, and France. He is also well known for his work on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Mario Botta ranks 85 out of 518. Before him are Daniel Libeskind, Louis Kahn, Hector Guimard, Richard Neutra, Balthasar Neumann, and Claude Perrault. After him are Frei Otto, Gottfried Semper, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Sostratus of Cnidus, Bartolomeo Ammannati, and Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Mario Botta ranks 67. Before him are Antonio Tabucchi, Masaru Emoto, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Esma Redžepova, Neale Donald Walsch, and Arthur B. McDonald. After him are Eduard Limonov, Lucio Dalla, Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Johann Deisenhofer, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Antonio Inoki.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Mario Botta ranks 88 out of 1,015. Before him are Max Frisch (1911), Heinrich Wölfflin (1864), Alfred Cortot (1877), Humbert I, Count of Savoy (980), Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815), and Roger Federer (1981). After him are Jean Tinguely (1925), Gianni Infantino (1970), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), François Vatel (1631), Louis Agassiz (1807), and Brother Roger (1915).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Switzerland

Among architects born in Switzerland, Mario Botta ranks 6. Before him are Le Corbusier (1887), Francesco Borromini (1599), Carlo Maderno (1556), Peter Zumthor (1943), and Domenico Fontana (1543). After him are Hannes Meyer (1889), Max Bill (1908), Bernard Tschumi (1944), Pietro Lombardo (1435), Carlo Fontana (1638), and Adolphe Appia (1862).

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