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A handsome monograph documenting his most recent project in the past decade,
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This review is from: Mario Botta: Light and Gravity: Architecture 1993-2003 (Hardcover)
Prestel's new monograph of renowned Swiss architect Mario Botta is aptly titled "Light and Gravity" and it is a collection of his select projects from 1993-2003. The title of this book refers to a recurring theme in his architecture where he designs volumes with compressive elements in masonry yet punctuates them skillfully so that light enters these volumes causing them to balance themselves out. This theme has been his signature theme for over the thirty years he has been in practice and is still timelessly beautiful today as it was back then. This monograph features some of his largest built projects such as the Kyobo Tower in Seoul, Korea as well as the simpler Central Bus Terminal in Lugano, Switzerland. Each projects are documented with well framed photos, project description and a composition of pencil sketches that capture the preliminary design phase. Over the thirty plus years he's been in practice. his strict modernist approach is still evident and despite the different masonry cladding he incorporates, it is still relevant to his theme of light and gravity.
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Mario Botta: Light and Gravity: Architecture 1993-2003 by Mario Botta (Hardcover - Oct. 2004)
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