Botta designed his first buildings at age 16, a two-family house at Morbio Superiore in Ticino.

Religious works by Botta, including the Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center were shown in London at the Royal Institute of British Architects in an exhibition entitled, Architetture del Sacro: Prayers in Stone.

* STORIES OF HOUSES: A Family House at Riva San Vitale, by Mario Botta

In 1842, French Consul General at Mosul, Paul-Émile Botta began to search the vast mounds that lay along the opposite bank of the river.

The description of the Botta Pocket Gopher is important because it is known at the Drakes Bay site.

* Mario Botta, Founder of the Academy of Architecture at Mendrisio ( Honoris Causa )

The credit of beginning archaeological research at Kuyunjik belongs to Botta, whom the French Government appointed Consul at Mosul in 1841-2.

Botta decided to begin work at Kuyunjik.

In no very hopeful spirit Botta sent two or three men to dig at Khorsabad on March 20, 1843, and three days later they came upon the top of a wall, one side of which was covered with sculptured alabaster bas-reliefs.

The site was first noticed by the French Consul General at Mosul, Paul-Émile Botta in 1842.

* Pauline Albenda, The palace of Sargon, King of Assyria: Monumental wall reliefs at Dur-Sharrukin, from original drawings made at the time of their discovery in 1843-1844 by Botta and Flandin, Editions Recherche sur les civilisations, 1986, ISBN 2-86538-152-8

During Willis's time at the journal, he especially promoted the works of women poets, including Frances Sargent Osgood, Anne Lynch Botta, Grace Greenwood, and Julia Ward Howe.

* Mario Botta, Swiss architect, ( professor at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio )

His son, Paul-Émile Botta ( 1802-1870 ), was a distinguished traveller and Assyrian archaeologist, whose excavations at Khorsabad ( 1843 ) were among the first efforts in the line of investigation afterwards pursued by Layard.

* Paul-Émile Botta begins excavations at Khorsabad.

Concerning the discoveries at Nineveh he wrote Lettres de M. Botta sur les découvertes à Khorsabad ( 1845 ).

This demand was presented at a special audience ; whereupon Empress Maria Theresa declared that she would never admit the validity of extorted evidence, and issued a manifesto to all the Great Powers defending Botta and accusing the Russian court of rank injustice.

A relief from Dur-Sharrukin depicted the sack of Musasir as well ( which fell into the Tigris in 1846 when the archaeologist Paul-Émile Botta was transporting his artifacts to Paris ).

* In 1888 she received the Prix Botta, a prize awarded triennially by the Académie française, for her volume of prose aphorisms Les Pensees d ' une reine ( Paris, 1882 ), a German version of which is entitled Vom Amboss ( Bonn, 1890 ).

In 1836 Botta was sent to Yemen to collect plants on behalf of the Paris Natural History Museum.

Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta ( November 6, 1766, San Giorgio Canavese, Piedmont – August 10, 1837, Paris ) was an Italian historian.

This expedition was in fulfilment of a design which he had formed, when, during his former travels in the East, his curiosity had been greatly excited by the ruins of Nimrud on the Tigris, and by the great mound of Kuyunjik, near Mosul, already partly excavated by Paul-Émile Botta.

Osgood then sent Fuller and Anne Lynch Botta to Poe's cottage on her behalf to request that he return the personal letters she had sent him.

He was born Paolo Emiliano Botta in Turin, Italy, on December 6, 1802.

Botta was selected to be naturalist on a voyage around the world.

Some historians think the French traveler Marigny in Disraeli's novel Contarini Fleming was based on Botta.

The Marquis of Botta d ' Adorno commanded the Austrian right and simply went to the expedient of putting his troops on the alert on the evening of the 15th.

The inquiry that followed established that the Lopukhin house used to be frequented by the Austrian agent Marquis Botta d ' Adorno, who allegedly promised his support for restoration of Ivan VI on the Russian throne.

His father was Italian historian Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta ( 1766 – 1837 ).

Mario Botta ( born April 1, 1943 ) is a Swiss architect.

Mario Botta participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project in 2007.

The renovation by renowned architect Mario Botta proved controversial, as preservationists feared that historic details would be lost.

Examples of this trend include the Guggenheim Museum in New York City by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, Centre Pompidou-Metz by Shigeru Ban, and the redesign of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Mario Botta.

Human-headed winged bull, found during Paul-Émile Botta | Botta's excavation.

, the Mayor of the Borough of Ramsey is Christopher C. Botta.

The building complex was designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta.

Mario Botta, a Swiss architect from Canton Ticino, designed the new facility.

Like Mihail Sebastian, who was himself becoming influenced by Ionescu, he maintained contacts with intellectuals from all sides of the political spectrum: their entourage included the right-wing Dan Botta and Mircea Vulcănescu, the non-political Petrescu and Ionel Jianu, and Belu Zilber, who was a member of the illegal Romanian Communist Party.

In 1998 the Swiss architect Mario Botta won the competition for the new wing of the headquarters, the building was completed in 2001.

In addition to Aalto and Utzon, the following architects have used Critical Regionalism ( in the Frampton sense ) in their work: Studio Granda, Mario Botta, Mazharul Islam, B. V. Doshi, Charles Correa, Alvaro Siza, Jorge Ferreira Chaves, Rafael Moneo, Geoffrey Bawa, Raj Rewal, Tadao Ando, Mack Scogin / Merrill Elam, Glenn Murcutt, Ken Yeang, William S. W.

Mario Botta is a famous architect who influenced modern architecture.

During that year the archaeologist Paul Émile Botta uncovered the remains of the ancient city of Niniveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire.

Among the treasures unearthed by Botta and his successors, including Austen Henry Layard, with whom Hincks exchanged many letters, was the famous library of Assurbanipal, a royal archive containing tens of thousands of baked clay tablets.

Paul-Émile Botta ( 6 December 1802 – 29 March 1870 ) was a French scientist who served as Consul in Mosul ( then in the Ottoman Empire, now in Iraq ) from 1842.