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Mario Botta

1943 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mario Botta has received more than 249,028 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Mario Botta is the 85th most popular architect (up from 94th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 85th 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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Mario Botta ranks 85 out of 424. Before him are Hemiunu, Gottfried Semper, Sostratus of Cnidus, Jože Plečnik, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, and Mnesikles. After him are Vincenzo Scamozzi, Sebastiano Serlio, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Arno Breker, Guarino Guarini, and Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Mario Botta ranks 59. Before him are Dušan Ivković, Roy Andersson, Klaus von Klitzing, Hanna Schygulla, Mario Monti, and Neale Donald Walsch. After him are Sam Shepard, Antonio Tabucchi, Joni Mitchell, Jerry Bruckheimer, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, and John Denver.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Mario Botta ranks 81 out of 876. Before him are Daniel Bovet (1907), Niklaus Wirth (1934), K. Alex Müller (1927), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), and Heinrich Wölfflin (1864). After him are Humbert I, Count of Savoy (980), Werner Arber (1929), Jean Tinguely (1925), Louis, Duke of Savoy (1413), Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747), 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), Pietro Lombardo (1435), Bernard Tschumi (1944), Adolphe Appia (1862), and Carlo Fontana (1638).

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