Cultural Center, Chambéry, France, North elevation
Mario Botta
Swiss, born 1943
Unknown
An architectural elevation by Mario Botta presenting his proposed Cultural Center for Chambéry, rendered in colored pencil on print to communicate the building’s massing, material banding, and entrance sequence.
You’re struck by the disciplined geometry— a tall, rectilinear block beside a rounded, banded volume with a stepped façade and a green, faceted skylight—all carefully hatched and shaded to evoke masonry and placed next to a lightly drawn historic building for scale and context.
The drawing is characteristic of Botta’s late‑20th‑century language of simple geometric archetypes and strong material rhythms, showing how contemporary civic architecture can assert monumentality while engaging an existing urban fabric.
Medium
Colored pencil on print
Dimensions
18 x 43 1/4" (45.7 x 109.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the architect
Accession
213.1987
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