Bofill was one of the most internationally recognized Spanish architects for his visions of urban planning.
The architect Ricardo Bofill, one of the most internationally renowned in Spain, fHe died this Friday in Barcelona at the age of 82, reported his RBTA office.
Bofill was one of the Spanish architects internationally recognized and accumulated a long career in the fields of architecture, design and urban planning.
His urban design works include the Luxembourg Square in Europe, the project of the New Castilian of Madrid, the Antigone neighborhood in Montpellier (France), the New mouth of the port of Barcelona or the remodeling and expansion of the Catalan capital’s airport, where he also designed the National Theater of Catalonia and the Hotel Vela.
The author of the also emblematic building Walden 7 of St. Just Desvern (Barcelona) will be remembered for its visionary and innovative architecture, highlighted today the Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA), which he founded in 1963.
Born on December 5, 1939 in the city of Barcelona, Bofill leaves behind a wide and varied architectural production, as well as numerous ongoing projects.
From their innovative collective housing complexes of its early years, like the buildings Walden 7 and the red wall, to infrastructures such as the Airport of Barcelona, the Shiseido Ginza corporate headquarters in Tokyo and cartier in paris, and more recent projects such as the Mohammed VI University, with offices in Ben Guerir and Rabat, Ricardo Bofill stood out from the beginning for question the dominant thinking in architecturea.
From that philosophy came a huge production, made up of around a thousand works in forty countries, very varied in its stylistic forms, who tried to adapt to the environment and maintain a strong component of innovation and risk.
Ricardo Bofill founded the Taller de Arquitectura in 1963 with a multidisciplinary team made up not only of architects, but also of other professionals and artists, such as the literary critic Salvador Clotas, the poet José Agustín Goytisolo or the economist Julia Romea.
That transversal spirit remains today, with their two children, Ricardo Emilio and Pablo, at the head of the office for some years now, leading a team of more than one hundred professionals of thirty nationalities who are currently developing numerous projects.
To fire Ricardo Bofill, the January 26 and 27 An act will be held in which friends, relatives and admirers of his architecture will be able to go to the emblematic headquarters of the studio to pay tribute to the architect, announced the RBTA office.
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