Ricardo Bofill Leví (; 5 December 1939 – 14 January 2022) was a Spanish architect from

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. He founded

Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA) is a architecture firm that was founded in 1963 by Ricardo Bofill, initially as Taller de Arquitectura ("Architecture Workshop" in Spanish). It is headquartered in Sant Just Desvern near Barcelona, in ...

in 1963 and developed it into a leading international architectural and urban design practice. According to architectural historian Andrew Ayers, his creations rank "among the most impressive buildings of the 20th century."

Early life and education

Born in late 1939, just after the end of the

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, Ricardo Bofill grew up in a well-to-do family with deep Catalan and Barcelonese roots. His grandfather (1860-1938) had been involved in prominent local institutions such as the

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, the , and the . His father Emilio Bofill (1907-2000) was an architect, builder, and developer who studied at ', Catalonia's oldest professional architecture school. Ricardo Bofill would later describe him as "republican, liberal, progressive, austere and logical." Ricardo's mother, Maria Levi (1909-1991), was an Italian of Jewish descent born in

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, who became a prominent sponsor of Catalan literature and culture in post-war Barcelona. Bofill went to school at the from 1942, the Catholic in Barcelona from 1949, then at the

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in the 1950s. He spent much of his youth traveling, first with his family and later on his own, and developed a passion for

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. In 1957 he enrolled at the ', where he engaged in student activism with the unauthorized

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, and was soon arrested in a demonstration and expelled from the university and from Spain. He moved to Switzerland and enrolled at the ' in 1958, which he left in 1960 to return to Spain. His first architecture design was a summer home in Ibiza, completed in 1960. In 1961-1962 he went into Spanish

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for nine months. He was again arrested and briefly incarcerated on political grounds in Barcelona in 1964.

''Taller de Arquitectura''

In 1963, Bofill and a group of close friends created

(Ricardo Bofill Architecture Workshop), initially hosted in his father's construction business with offices on Plaça de Catalunya in the center of Barcelona. Building on Catalan traditions of craftsmanship, he enlisted architects and engineers but also writers and artists into a multidisciplinary effort, which later branched into

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and

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. The team experimented on original methodologies based on three-dimensional modular geometries, such as those of the in

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(1964-1970), ''

El Castillo de Kafka El Castillo de Kafka is an iconic complex of 90 apartments in Sant Pere de Ribes, near Sitges in Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura and completed in 1968. It has been ranked among "Ricardo Bofill's 10 Most Ico ...

'' in

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above

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(1964-1968), '' Xanadu'' (1966-1971), and ''

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'' (1968-1973) in

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. The same thinking was developed on a larger scale with the project ''La Ciudad en el Espacio'' ("The City in Space"), whose construction started in the

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area of

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in 1970 but was abruptly stopped by Francoist mayor

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. It was instead realized with the construction of

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near Barcelona (1970-1975). These projects were recognized as exemplars of

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and can be viewed as a reaction against both architectural modernism and the

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in Spain. Bofill then started working in France, and gradually introduced symbolic elements into the ''Tallers designs that echo French traditions of

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. In 1971, he was invited by , a key planner of the

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urban project, to develop a design concept analogous to that of the in Reus. This morphed into a project named ''La Petite Cathédrale'' ("the small cathedral") but actually intended as a large-scale development, which was approved in 1973 but canceled in 1974. Another major development was a competition-winning concept for Les Halles in Paris in 1975, whose construction subsequently started but was reversed in 1978 by the newly elected mayor Jacques Chirac. Other projects did come to fruition in the ' around Paris which offered a favorable environment for large-scale experimentation, including ''

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'' in

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and ''

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'' in

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. This phase culminated in the expansive

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new district of Montpellier in Southern France, for which Bofill presented the initial master plan in 1978. It is associated with both large-scale industrialization in

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and classical forms and geometries in contemporary architecture, which Bofill called "modern classicism". As a consequence, Bofill opus is often cited as that one of the most representative and signififant

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to have lived and created in Europe. From the mid-1980s on, he increasingly shifted to glass and steel for the materials used in his projects, while still using a classical vocabulary of columns and

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s. Representative projects of that period include the 77 West Wacker Drive office tower in

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, the extension of

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ahead of the

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, and the National Theater of Catalonia, also in Barcelona. In 2000, Bofill re-centralized the activities of the ''Taller'' at its head office near Barcelona. His designs in more recent years gradually shed his classical decorative vocabulary of the 1980s and 1990s, while retaining a highly formal sense of geometry. Representative buildings of this more recent period include the W Barcelona Hotel on the Barcelona seafront and the

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Personal life and death

Bofill met Italian actress

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in 1962;; their son Ricardo Emilio Bofill was born in 1965. Bofill and French visual artist Annabelle d'Huart had another son, Pablo Bofill, born in 1980. Both sons eventually worked with their father at

, and are co-leading the firm as of January 2022. From the 1990s, Bofill lived in Barcelona together with Catalan designer Marta de Vilallonga. In October 2021, he was named in the

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. He died from complications linked to

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in Barcelona on , at the age of 82.

Selected works

Urban design

* Large-scale master plans for Boston Central Artery (1987), Kobe waterfront (1991),

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(1992), Barcelona Diagonal Mar (1992), Paseo de la Castellana extension in Madrid (1996/1999), Trinity Riverfront in Dallas (2013), Greater Moscow (2013) *

district in Montpellier, developed from 1979 with many buildings also designed by Bofill and his ''Taller'' * Master plan for the redevelopment of the Kirchberg district in

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(1998), including the creation of the urban square ''Place de l'Europe'' and the twin towers of ''La Porte'' designed by the ''Taller'' * Urban neighborhoods in

(', 1970),

(''

'', 1982),

(''

'', 1982),

(''Le Belvédère Saint-Christophe'', 1985), Stockholm ( På Söder Crescent, 1992),

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(', 2004) *

campus in

, Morocco (2011/2016)

Buildings

* La Fábrica, headquarters of

and residence for Bofill and his family (1975) * Early housing complexes in Spain based on geometrical pattern combinations: ''

'' (1968), '' Xanadu'' (1971), ''

'' (1973), ''

'' (1975) *

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apartment building in Paris (1985) * 77 West Wacker Drive office tower in Chicago (1992) * Madrid Congress Center (1993) * National Theater of Catalonia in Barcelona (1997) * Casablanca Twin Center in Casablanca, Morocco (1999) * in

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, Spain (2007) *

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on the Barcelona waterfront (2009) * Terminal 2 (1992) and Terminal 1 (2009) of

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Writing

* Ricardo Bofill, ''Hacia una Formalización de la Ciudad en el Espacio'', Barcelona: Blume Editorial, 1968 * Ricardo Bofill,, ''L’Architecture d’un Homme'' (with François Hébert-Stevens), Paris: Arthaud, 1978 * Ricardo Bofill and Jean-Louis André, ''Espaces d’une vie'', Paris:

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, 1989 (Translated into Spanish as ''Espacio y Vida'', 1990, and in Italian as ''Spazi di una vita'', 1996) * Ricardo Bofill and Nicolas Véron, ''L’Architecture des villes'', Paris:

, 1995

Filming

* ''Circles'', 1966. Color, 35 mm, 17 minutes. Directed by Ricardo Bofill and Carles Durán. Actors: Serena Vergano, Salvador Clotas. Phography: Juan Amorós. Presented at Festival de Tours, France, 1968 * ''Schizo'', 1969-1970. Color, 35 mm, 60 minutes. Directed by Ricardo Bofill, Carles Durán and Manolo Núñez Yanosvski. Actors:

, Modesto Bertrán. Phography: Juan Amorós. Choreography: Antonio Miralles. Presented at 48 Mostra Cinematografica Internazionale di Venezia, Sala Volpi, 1991.

Recognition

In a noted study of France's evolving social structures and landscapes published in 2021, political scientist Jérôme Fourquet and journalist Jean-Laurent Cassely wrote that "the monumental projects designed by Spanish architect Ricardo-Bofill in Noisy-le-Grand (

), in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (

) and in Montpellier (the Antigone neighborhood) are basically the architectural signature of the 1980s" in the country.

Exhibitions

Bofill and his '' Taller de Arquitectura'' were featured in three exhibitions of the

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: "Transformations in Modern Architecture" (1979), "Ricardo Bofill and Leon Krier: Architecture, Urbanism, and History" (1985), and "Architecture & Design Drawings: Rotation 3" (2006). They were also featured at the

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in 1980, 1982, and 1992.

Degrees and awards

* 1968: Fritz Schumacher Honoris Causa Degree,

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* 1978:

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, International Prize * 1979: Architecte Agréé, * 1980: Prize of Architecture of the City of Barcelona, for the renovation of the cement factory in Sant Just Desvern * 1985: Honorary Fellow,

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* 1989: Ordre des Architectes Conseils du Brabant, Belgium * 1989: Chicago Architecture Award, Illinois Council /

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* 1989: Académie Internationale de Philosophie de l´Art, Bern, Switzerland * 1995: Doctor Honoris Causa, Metz University * 1996: Honorary Fellow of the

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* 2009: Life Time Achievement Award, Israeli Building Center * 2009: Vittorio de Sica Architecture Prize, Quirinal, Rome * 2021: Doctor Honoris Causa,

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Honors

* 1984: Officer of l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France * 1993:

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, Catalonia

Gallery

File:Edifici JS Bach 28 - Barcelona (Catalonia)-08019-2519.jpg, Carrer Bach 28, Barcelona (1963) File:Edifici Ricardo Bofill carrer Nicaragua.jpg, Carrer Nicaragua 97–99, Barcelona (1965) File:083 Barri Gaudí, de Ricard Bofill.jpg, Barri Gaudí, Reus, Catalonia (1970) File:Apartaments El Castell (cropped).JPG, Apartaments El Castell, Sant Pere de Ribes File:Walden7 devant.JPG, Walden 7, Sant Just Desvern (1974) File:Walden-7 Sant Just Desvern 2.jpg, Walden 7, Sant Just Desvern (1974) File:Meritxell Andorra 5.jpg, Sanctuary of Meritxell, Andorra (1977) File:Taller d’Arquitectura Sant Just Desvern.jpg, Taller de Arquitectura, Sant Just Desvern (1970s) File:Montpellier - Résidence Le Nombre d'Or (29248497783).jpg, Place du Nombre d'Or, Montpellier (1984) File:Antigone Esplanade de l'Europe.jpg, Esplanade de l'Europe, Montpellier (1980s) File:Montpellier - Les Échelles de la Ville (29247829934).jpg, Les Échelles de la Ville, Montpellier (1987) File:Montpellier - Communauté Agglomération Montpellier (29840186506).jpg, Communauté d'Agglomération, Montpellier (1991) File:Bofills bage1.jpg, Pa Soder Crescent, Stockholm (1992) File:Bofill.jpg, United Arrows Building, Tokyo (1992) File:Chicago 2007-2.jpg, 77 West Wacker Drive, Chicago (1992) File:Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Bofill.JPG, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Barcelona (1996) File:Edificio Apot (Campo de las Naciones, Madrid) 01.jpg, Apot Building, Madrid File:Montpellier - Piscine Olympique d'Antigone (29875127695).jpg, Olympic Swimming Pool, Montpellier (1999) File:UPC.CampusNorte.Edificio.Nexus2.jpg, Nexus II building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona (2002) File:The Citadel Center, Chicago Loop, Chicago, Illinois (11004317004).jpg, Citadel Center, Chicago (2003) File:W Barcelona by Ricardo Bofill.jpg, W Hotel Barcelona (2009) File:Hotel W Barcelona (2).jpg, W Hotel File:35 Quatre barres i Hotel W.jpg, Hotel W and ''Quatre Barres'' monument File:Barcelona Airport Эль-Прат - panoramio (4).jpg, Barcelona Airport, Terminal 1 (2010) File:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid 05.jpg, Palacio Municipal de Congresos, Madrid

References

Notes

Books about Bofill and his work

* José Agustín Goytisolo, ''Taller de Arquitectura : poemas''. Barcelona: Blume, 1976 * ''Ricardo Bofill, Projets Français 1978-1981''. Paris: L’Equerre, 1981 * Annabelle D’Huart, ''Ricardo Bofill, Los Espacios de Abraxas, El Palacio, El Teatro, El Arco''. Paris: L’Equerre, 1981 * “Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura”. ''Global Architecture'' No.4, New York: Rizzoli International, 1985 * "The City: Classicism and Technology". Max Protetch Gallery. ''Artforum'' 4, 1986 * ''Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura: Edificios y proyectos 1960-1984''. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1988 * Warren A. James, ''Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura: Buildings and Projects 1960-1984''. New York: Rizzoli, 1988 * Annabelle D’Huart, ''Ricardo Bofill''. Paris: Editions du Moniteur, 1989 * ''Ricardo Bofill. Barcelona Airport''. Milan: Edizioni Tecno, 1991 * Jean-Louis André and Patrick Genard, ''Swift, Architecture & Technologie''. Taller Design, 1991 * Bartomeu Cruells, ''Ricardo Bofill: Obras y Proyectos''. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili 1992 * ''Memory-Future''. Barcelona: Taller de Arquitectura, 1993 * Bartomeu Cruells, ''Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura''. Bologna: Zanichelli Editore, 1994

External links

Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura's Website

Photos of selected works of Ricardo Bofill

Ricardo Bofill feature in some/things
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Early life and education

''Taller de Arquitectura''

Personal life and death

Selected works

Urban design

Buildings

Writing

Filming

Recognition

Exhibitions

Degrees and awards

Honors

Gallery

See also

References

Notes

Books about Bofill and his work

External links