Swiss architect. He graduated in 1969 from the Istituto Universario di Architettura in Venice where his teachers included Carlo Scarpa and Ignazio Gardella. As early as 1965 he collaborated with Le Corbusier on the new Venice hospital project (unbuilt), and he gained practical experience in Le Corbusier’s Paris office. In 1969 Botta met Louis I. Kahn and with him designed the exhibition on the Palazzo dei Congressi project in Venice. These experiences began his professional activity and left lasting impressions: he was able to assimilate the cultural influences in his first independent projects through a style permeated with confident quotations, yet not devoid of original touches.

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