“Mario Botta is not just a great architect. He is a magician.

Only a designer with extraordinary powers could conjure a building full of seeming opposites: light and dark, big and small, compression and expansion, weight and weightlessness.

And that is what the internationally known architect has done with the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, which recently opened at the Levine Center for the Arts on South Tryon Street. Moreover, he created this paradoxical art palace not to express some Gehryesque flamboyance, but to do an architect’s duty: Dig through the designer’s toolbox to find solutions to knotty problems.”

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