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Checkout quotes by Mario Botta on Architecture

  • Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.
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  • Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.
    - Mario Botta
  • To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.
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  • For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.
    - Mario Botta
  • The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building.
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  • In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.
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  • Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.
    - Mario Botta