Editing Ricardo Bofill (section)

==Early life and education==
Born in late 1939, just after the end of the [[Spanish Civil War]], Ricardo Bofill grew up in a well-to-do family with deep Catalan and Barcelonese roots. His grandfather {{ill|Josep Maria Bofill i Pichot|ca}} (1860–1938) had been involved in prominent local institutions such as the [[Institute for Catalan Studies]], the {{ill|Catalan Institute of Natural History|ca|Institució Catalana d'Història Natural}}, and the {{ill|Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona|ca|Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona}}. His father [[Emilio Bofill]] (1907–2000) was an architect, builder, and developer who studied at ''{{ill|Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona|ca}}'', Catalonia's oldest professional architecture school. Ricardo Bofill would later describe him as "republican, liberal, progressive, austere and logical."<ref>{{cite web|website=Villa Tupinetti |url=https://fnr.cat/tupinetti/informacio-de-la-casa/arquitectura/ |title=Architecture}}</ref> Ricardo's mother, Maria Levi (1909–1991), was an Italian of Jewish descent born in [[Venice]], who became a prominent sponsor of Catalan literature and culture in post-war Barcelona.<ref>{{cite web|website=El Poder De La Palabra |url=https://www.epdlp.com/arquitecto.php?id=7315 |title=Emili Bofill i Benessat (España, 1907-2000)}}</ref>  His sister [[Anna Bofill Leví]] is an architect, composer, pianist, and author.

Bofill went to school at the {{ill|Escola Virtèlia|ca}} from 1942,<ref>{{cite web |author=Mireia Rom |title=El 'top ten' de les escoles catalanes d'elit |website=El Crític |date={{date|2019/12/09}} |url=https://www.elcritic.cat/investigacio/el-top-ten-de-les-escoles-de-lelit-politica-i-economica-catalana-10337|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209130245/https://www.elcritic.cat/investigacio/el-top-ten-de-les-escoles-de-lelit-politica-i-economica-catalana-10337 |archive-date=9 December 2019 }}</ref> the Catholic {{lang|es|Escuela Andersen}} in Barcelona from 1949, then at the [[Lycée Français de Barcelone|Lycée français de Barcelone]] in the 1950s.{{R|A1H|page=249}} He spent much of his youth traveling, first with his family and later on his own, and developed a passion for [[vernacular architecture]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sofia Borges |title=Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura: Towards a Human Vernacular |location=Berlin |date=2013}}</ref> In 1957 he enrolled at the ''{{ill|Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona|ca}}'', where he engaged in student activism with the unauthorized [[Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia]], and was soon arrested in a demonstration and expelled from the university and from Spain. He moved to Switzerland and enrolled at the ''{{ill|Haute École d'art et de design Genève|fr}}'' in 1958, which he left in 1960 to return to Spain. His first architecture design was a summer home in Ibiza, completed in 1960.<ref>{{cite book|title=Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura: Architecture in the era of local culture and international experience |date=2009 |editor=Serena Vergano |publisher=RBTA |page=30}}</ref> In 1961-1962 he went into Spanish [[military service]] for nine months.<ref name=A1H>{{cite book |title=L'Architecture d'un Homme |publisher=Arthaud |location=Paris |date=1978 |author1=Ricardo Bofill |author2=François Hébert-Stevens}}</ref>{{rp|250}} He was again arrested and briefly incarcerated on political grounds in Barcelona in 1964.{{R|A1H|page=252}}