Mario Botta gesehen von Pino Musi

This lavishly illustrated book is a delight to the eye, but it is more than a celebration of artistic fellowship; it also reconstructs for the reader a virtual image of architecture, the synthesis of an idea. Born in Ticino, near the Swiss-Italian border in 1943, Mario Botta has designed many buildings around the world. It is Pino Musi's intention to transpose through photography the magic relationship of light, material and spatial tensions-the fundamental values of the work of Mario Botta.

Musi's photographs describe not the specifications of Botta's architecture, but how they actually work. The buildings are dissected into carefully calculated shots of details, as if to suggest that the logic of the whole is recorded in the sequence of its parts. Step by step, Musi traces the development of Botta's unique architectural language, revealing the enigmatic stability and muscular strength of these architectural masterpieces.