Ricardo Bofill

Ricardo Bofill

Ricardo Bofill Leví ( December 5, 1939 in Barcelona – January 14, 2022 in Barcelona) was a Spanish postmodernist architect .

Life

Bofill was born in 1939 to a Spanish building contractor and an Italian mother. After attending French high school, he began studying architecture in Barcelona before moving to the École d'architecture in Geneva . In 1963 he founded his office Taller de Arquitectura in Barcelona . In 1971, Bofill opened a branch in Paris , where he developed several monumental suburban developments - such as the Espaces d'Abraxas - in the 1980s .

From 2000 he controlled his international activities again from Barcelona, ​​where the architecture workshop is housed in a former cement factory in Sant Just Desvern . His team, which he led together with his partners Peter Hodgkinson and Jean-Pierre Carniaux, included around 60 employees from 12 countries; in addition to architects and urban planners, he also employed scientists, model makers, interior designers, furniture makers and graphic artists.

Ricardo Bofill has received numerous international architectural awards and was an officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . In 1997 he became an honorary member of the Association of German Architects BDA .

He lived in La Fàbrica (see section Buildings : 1973-1975) near Barcelona. His stepdaughter is Mexican singer Paulina Rubio . Ricardo Bofill died in Barcelona in January 2022 at the age of 82 as a result of a corona infection.

buildings

77 West Wacker Drive, Chicago (1992)

Les quatre bars de la senyera catalana (2010)

W Barcelona Hotel

• 1960: Holiday home for Angeles Bofill in Ibiza , Spain
• 1973: La Muralla Roja residential complex in Calpe , Spain
• 1973-1975: La Fàbrica - Conversion of a cement factory into living and studio space in Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia
• 1975: Apartment house Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern
• 1975: Bofill summer house in Mont-Rás, Gerona , Spain
• 1978: Reconstruction of the burnt down Santuari de Meritxell pilgrimage church in Meritxell , Andorra
• 1978: Quartier Antigone , Montpellier , France
• 1982: Les Espaces d'Abraxas , Marne-la-Vallée , France
• 1982: Les Arcades du Lac , Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines , France
• 1982: Le Viaduc , Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
• 1984: La Place du Nombre d'Or , Montpellier, France
• 1985: Belvedère Saint Christophe , Cergy-Pontoise , France
• 1985: Les Echelles du Baroque , Place de Catalogne, Paris- Montparnasse , France
• 1986: Les Temples du Lac , Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
• 1986: Wine Cellar of Château Lafite Rothschild , Pauillac , Gironde department , near Bordeaux , France
• 1986–1990: Port Marianne , Montpellier, France
• 1988: Hôtel de Région Languedoc-Roussillon , Montpellier, France
• 1988: Rice University Shepherd School of Music , Houston Tx. USA
• 1989: Conversion of the Arsenal into a cultural complex with a concert hall, Metz , France
• 1989: Port Juvenal , Montpellier, France
• 1989: SWIFT office complex , La Hulpe , Belgium
• 1991: Volcans d'Auvergne motorway service station on the A-71 near Clermont-Ferrand , France
• 1992: 77 West Wacker Drive , Chicago Ill. , United States
• 1992: Pa Soder Crescent also Bofills båge , Stockholm , Sweden
• 1996: Le Capitole , Montpellier, France
• 1998: Casablanca Twin Centers , Casablanca , Morocco
• 1998: Atrium Saldanha , Lisbon , Portugal (with João Paciência)
• 1999: Weidert residential development in Luxembourg
• 2000: Corso Prague , Czech Republic
• 2001: Crystal Carlin Prague, Czech Republic
• 2001: Shiseido Building, Tokyo , Japan
• 2001: Centro Cultural Miguel Delibes , Valladolid , Spain
• 2003: Citadel Center , Chicago
• 2003: Head Office for Cartier , Paris
• 2006: Terminal 1, Barcelona Airport , Spain
• 2008: Platinum Tower , Beirut
• 2009: W Barcelona Hotel (aka Hotel Vela), on the Port of Barcelona

writings

• Ricardo Bofill: La Arquitectura de un hombre . Madrid 1984

literature

• 2019: Ricardo Bofill. Visions of Architecture. shape, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89955-940-8 .

web links

Commons : Ricardo Bofill  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Ricardo Bofill's website (English, Spanish, Catalan, Russian, Chinese)
• Ricardo Bofill: “Why Are Historical Towns More Beautiful Than Modern Cities?” Richly illustrated interview on ArchDaily.com, September 13, 2016 (English)

itemizations

1. ↑ Spanish star architect Ricardo Bofill dies at 82. In: RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland , January 14, 2022, accessed January 14, 2022.
2. ↑ In Residence Ep 14: “Ricardo Bofill” by Albert Moya - NOWNESS presents. Retrieved February 27, 2017 . 
3. ↑ CribsWorldNews: MTV Cribs Paulina Rubio. December 5, 2011, retrieved February 27, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): On the death of the Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill | DW | 01/15/2022. Retrieved January 15, 2022 (German). 
5. ↑ Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill dies aged 82. January 14, 2022, accessed January 15, 2022 (English). 
6. ↑ Anatxu Zabalbeascoa: Muere Ricardo Bofill, el más cosmopolita de los arquitectos españoles. January 14, 2022, retrieved January 15, 2022 (Spanish). 
7. ↑ https://archive.today/2013.09.14-095802/http://www.ricardobofill.com/EN/615/PROJECTS/Single-family-house-in-Ibiza-html Single family house in Ibiza
8. ↑ AD Classics: La Muralla Roja / Ricardo Bofill. 20 February 2013, retrieved 14 January 2022 (American English). 
9. ↑ The Factory / Ricardo Bofill. 15 November 2012, retrieved 14 January 2022 (American English). 
10. ↑ AD Classics: Walden 7 / Ricardo Bofill. 12 April 2020, retrieved 14 January 2022 (American English). 
11. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of 15 April 2014 at Internet Archive ) ANP: Bofill House
12. ↑ Classic: Maritxell Sanctuary / Ricardo Bofill. 16 May 2013, retrieved 14 January 2022 (American English).