Mario Botta Architectural Poetics
Irena Sakellaridou
Thames & Hudson Contents
Introduction 6 Logic of Form, Richness of Meaning
Chapter One 13 Search for Order
Middle School in Morbio Inferiore, Ticino, Switzerland Library at the Capuchin Convent, Lugano, Switzerland Single House in Stabio, Ticino, Switzerland
Chapter Two 30 Means of Creativity
Ransila Office Building, Lugano, Switzerland Banca del Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland Single House, Morbio Superiore, Ticino, Switzerland Andre Malraux Theater and Cultural Center, Chambery, France Single House, Breganzona, Ticino, Switzerland Mediatheque, Villeurbanne, France Watari-um Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Union Bank of Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland Centra Cinque Continenti Offices and Residences, Lugano-Paradiso, Switzerland Single House, Montagnola, Ticino, Switzerland Home for the Elderly, Novazzano, Ticino, Switzerland Friedrich Durrenmatt Center, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Chapter Three 98 Form and Meaning
Church of San Giovanni Battista, Mogno, Valle Maggia, Ticino, Switzerland Cathedral of Evry, France San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A. Chapel of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Monte Tamaro, Ticino, Switzerland Contents
Jean Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland Municipal Library, Dortmund, Germany Cumbre de las Americas Monument in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center, Tel Aviv, Israel Wooden Model of the Borromini Church San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Lugano, Switzerland Church at Malpena Airport 2000, Milan, Italy
Chapter Four 168 A Matter of Scale
Caimato Office Building, Lugano-Cassarate, Switzerland Residence Settlement, Novazzano, Ticino, Switzerland Swisscom Building, Bellinzona, Switzerland Row Houses and Villa, Bernareggio. Italy Gerbio Residences, Monte Carasso. Switzerland Museum for Modem and Contemporary Art and Cultural Center, Rovereto, Italy Offices and Housing, Maastricht, Netherlands Scientific College, Citta della Pieve, Italy
Chapter Five 212 A World of Imagination and Objects
Notes 226
Botta's writings 227
Bibliography 232
List of projects 234