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Sun, Soil, Spirit: The Architecture of Mario Botta
Switzerland Architecture News - Nov 12, 2008 - 15:58 4080 views
The Swiss Modernist speaks of architecture’s role in a confused and commodified age.
Summary: Mario Botta, Hon. FAIA, is a Modernist master of earthen fabric, still sculptingtimeless yet temporary engaged elemental spaces out of brick andstoneware while his contemporaries rely on the materials of now todefine the condition of now. He’s worked mostly in Europe, but in theU.S. his best known building is the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,and his Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte is currently underconstruction. Born in Mendrisio, Switzerland, but effusively Italian inmanner and culture, his calling is to confront the existential crisisof the contemporary built environment through the clear orientation ofspace and the humanistic affirmation of man’s inherent uniqueness. Onone side, the banal, the commodified, the common; on the other, theauthentic, the singular, the sacred.
www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/0509/0509d_botta.cfm
Summary: Mario Botta, Hon. FAIA, is a Modernist master of earthen fabric, still sculptingtimeless yet temporary engaged elemental spaces out of brick andstoneware while his contemporaries rely on the materials of now todefine the condition of now. He’s worked mostly in Europe, but in theU.S. his best known building is the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,and his Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte is currently underconstruction. Born in Mendrisio, Switzerland, but effusively Italian inmanner and culture, his calling is to confront the existential crisisof the contemporary built environment through the clear orientation ofspace and the humanistic affirmation of man’s inherent uniqueness. Onone side, the banal, the commodified, the common; on the other, theauthentic, the singular, the sacred.
www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/0509/0509d_botta.cfm