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Row Housing, Pregassona, Switzerland, Elevation

Row Housing, Pregassona, Switzerland, Elevation

Mario Botta
Swiss, born 1943
1985
A colored-pencil on print elevation of Mario Botta’s terraced row housing in Pregassona that seeks to translate heavy, geometric brick volumes into a humane, sloping domestic block.
You notice a strict rhythm of monolithic red-brick volumes stepping down the hill, each carved by a U-shaped window and deep shadowed recesses, with small triangular skylights punctuating the roofline.
The drawing exemplifies Botta’s late-20th-century strategy of reasserting brick, solid/void clarity, and powerful geometric order in residential design, showing how monumental formalism can be adapted to everyday housing on a difficult site.
Medium
Colored pencil on print
Dimensions
20 3/4 x 53 1/4" (52.7 x 135.3 cm)
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Credit
Gift of the architect
Accession
217.1987.1
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