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Botta was a drafting apprentice in a Lugano building firm from 1958 to 1961. He studied architecture at the Istituto Universario di Architettura in Venice, Italy. His most widely praised work is the Casa Rotunda at stabio, switzerland.
Botta was a drafting apprentice in a Lugano building firm from 1958 to 1961. He studied architecture at the Istituto Universario di Architettura in Venice, Italy. His most widely praised work is the Casa Rotunda at stabio, switzerland.
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Botta was a drafting apprentice in a Lugano building firm from 1958 to 1961. He studied architecture at the Istituto Universario di Architettura in Venice, Italy. His most widely praised work is the Casa Rotunda at stabio, switzerland.
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internationally known for highly original designs that combine
modern architectural styles with local building traditions. While imposing a sense of order and clarity, his buildings also respond to the natural and the built environment.
Botta was born in Mendrisio in the Swiss canton of Trisio. He was a
drafting apprentice in a Lugano building firm from 1958 to 1961, and from 1961 to 1964 he studied design at the Liceo Artistico in Milan, Italy. From 1964 he studied architecture at the Istituto Universario di Architettura in Venice, Italy, graduating in 1969. He worked briefly with French architect Le Corbusier in 1965 and with American architect Louis I. Kahn in 1969. Kahn’s emphasis on symmetry along a central axis and the geometry of Le Corbusier’s work are especially evident in Botta’s early works. These are mostly single-family houses in Switzerland. A typical example is his Casa Bianchi (1971-1973, Riva San Vitale, Switzerland), a simple, geometric volume sliced through by a skylight that extends across the roofline along the front of the building. Like many of Botta’s houses, the Casa Bianchi conforms to the steep Swiss terrain, with an entrance on the top floor and lower floors that step down the hillside. Botta carefully chose the texture and color of stone and other building materials to blend in with the landscape and surrounding buildings. Gradually the austere simplicity of his early designs gave way to a more complex and expressive style characterized by the use of asymmetrical structures and bold colors.
As his reputation grew, Botta received commissions for larger works,
projects that allowed him to respond to developed urban environments. These commissions include the Administration Building, Banque de l’État, Fribourg, Switzerland (1977-1982); offices for the Banca del Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland (1982-1988); Evry Cathedral, France (1988-1994); the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, California (1989-1994); and the Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (1990). He continued to design single-family houses, his most widely praised being the Casa Rotunda at Stabio, Switzerland (1981-1982), an upright, brick cylinder punctuated with broad vertical and horizontal openings.1