As a veteran architect, he appreciates the landscape of Columbus that especially includes favorite Eero Saarinen. As a seasoned artist, he loves the local colors of globally recognized textile specialists such as Alexander Girard.

“So I feel very much at home,” Guglielmo Botter said. That’s even though he has been more than 7,500 miles from his residence in Treviso, Italy, in the northeastern part of that country.