Mario Botta was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1949. He describes his career as that of an "architect without a building". The body of his work is drawn from his many travels, especially across the world to places he has never been before. His rectilinear buildings are organized around a central axis or line, which can be seen as an image of the trip
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The logic of the architect is co-opted by the lines and surfaces of his spatial compositions. Botta's architecture is characterized by its formal constraints, but also by the freedom to create new relations between large-scale building elements that are not formally reduced to their simplest elements. Mario Botta has built buildings that are not only architectural spaces but also sites for meetings, events, performances and exhibitions.