The Analysis Of Mario Botta's Architectural Language

Mario Botta is an architect who has the important international influences to the contemporary west. In the nearly 40 years, he creates large quantities of the architective works that have unique style and the artistic influences in his design practices. These works take root in the region environments and have the bright individual style, responding the place unique geography, the history and the culture.The purpose of the article is to unscramble Botta's architectural language systematically, in the meanwhile, summarize his viewpoints and pursuit about the architective designs. Though the article, we could understand his main viewpoints on the architectonics to guide the architectonical practices .Studies are divided into three parts: the vocabulary, the grammar and the semantic.First, Botta insists on using the most basic architective vocabularies to design. Through analyzing the characteristics and rule of geometry prototype, ordinary material quality, natural light, we can discuss on his pursue to the nice architective style and essence. It's pointed out that the characters of his works are originated from his imperceptible observation on normal things and the unique experience of his life.The next, the grammar is a language rule that organizes the words and expresses the meaning. This part emphatically discusses Botta is how to deal with constituents and make them get together during developing the process of his own construction words. He used the diverse design techniques in the construction volume and the vertical surface composition. Through the multi-level metaphor, he not only created the unifiable and changeful architectures, but also engendered the response to the civilization of the location in which his construction was. What in above is as so as to make his works meaningful.Finally, to analyze the semantic connotation is a core of Botta's construction works. Through the studying we could know that his different constructions works had different hsitory, period backgrounds and was full of his different thoughts duiring designing each work. We also disscuss Botta is how to shape his thoughts and comprehend the relation of the building and the time, the building and the region, the building and the person and so on. In addition, we overall summarize the characteristic of form and the intensional logic in Botta'works. It gives expression to his profound theory of building creation. Meanwhile, it points out that Botta's thoughts give us much enlightnment on how to design.