Botta, Mario, 1943- (Personal Name)

His La casa rotonda, 1982: title page (Mario Botta) page 105 (born 4/1/43, Mendrisio, Switzerland; graduated 1969 Istituto universitario di architettura, Venice)

Mario Botta Architetti WWW site, viewed January 18, 2018 Studio page (Mario Botta; born April 1, 1943 in Mendrisio, Switzerland; after an apprenticeship in Lugano, he attended the Art College in Milan and then studied at the Studi all'Istituto Universitario di Architettura IUAV in Venice; his professional career began in 1970 in Lugano; visiting professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, 1976; visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture New Haven, Connecticut, 1987; member of the Swiss Federal Commission of Art, 1982-1987; Nominated Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, 1983-; President of the Fondazione Museo dell'architettura (now Fondazione Teatro dell'architettura), 2005-; Mario Botta Architetti moved to to Mendrisio in 2011)