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Bodmer Library

The Bodmer Foundation is a library and museum specialised in manuscripts and precious editions. It is located in Cologny, Switzerland just outside Geneva.

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1920

Cologny, Cologny, Switzerland

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Museum of rare manuscripts in Cologny, Switzerland

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Mario Botta

Born 1943 · Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland

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Mario Botta is a Swiss architect. At age fifteen, Botta dropped out of secondary school and apprenticed with the architectural firm of Carloni and Camenisch in Lugano. After three years, he went to the Art College in Milan for his baccalaureate, and then to Università Iuav di Venezia for his professional degree in 196…

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Mario Botta Architetto

studio · Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland

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