Editing Ricardo Bofill

{{Short description|Spanish architect (1939–2022)}}
{{family name hatnote|Bofill|Leví|lang=Spanish}}
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{{Infobox architect
| name = Ricardo Bofill Leví
| image = Ricardo bofill levi.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|12|05|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Barcelona]], [[Francoist Spain|Spain]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|01|14|1939|12|05|df=y}}
| death_place = Barcelona, Spain
| practice = Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
| awards = 
| significant_projects = {{ubl|[[La Muralla Roja]]|[[Walden 7]]|[[La Fábrica (Sant Just Desvern)|La Fábrica]]|[[Le Perthus Pyramid]]|[[Les Espaces d'Abraxas]]|[[Antigone, Montpellier|Antigone district in Montpellier]]|[[Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport|Barcelona Airport]]|[[77 West Wacker Drive|77 West Wacker Drive (Chicago)]]|[[W Barcelona|W Barcelona Hotel]]|[[Mohammed VI Polytechnic University]]}}
| spouse = [[Serena Vergano]] (divorced)
| partner = [[Marta de Vilallonga]]
}}

'''Ricardo Bofill Leví''' ({{IPA|ca|riˈkaɾðu buˈfiʎ ləˈβi|lang}}; 5 December 1939 – 14 January 2022) was a Spanish architect from [[Barcelona]], [[Spain]]. He founded [[Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura]] 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."<ref name=Ayers>{{citation|magazine=L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui |url=https://www.larchitecturedaujourdhui.fr/demesures/ |author=Andrew Ayers |title=Ricardo Bofill, A l'échelle de l'histoire |date=December 2020}}</ref>

==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}}

==''Taller de Arquitectura''==
{{Main|Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura}}
[[File:Ricardo Bofill (Ricard Bofill Leví), Les quatre barres de la senyera catalana 8 DSC09517.jpg|thumb|''Les quatre barres de la senyera catalana'', public sculpture by Bofill that alludes to the [[Senyera|Catalan flag]]; in front of [[W Barcelona|W Barcelona Hotel]]]]

In 1963, Bofill and a group of close friends created [[Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura]] (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 [[urban design]] and [[urban planning]]. The team experimented on original methodologies based on three-dimensional modular geometries, such as those of the {{ill|Gaudi District|ca|Barri Gaudí (Reus)}} in [[Reus]] (1964–1970), ''[[El Castillo de Kafka]]'' in [[Sant Pere de Ribes]] above [[Sitges]] (1964–1968), ''[[Xanadu (Calp)|Xanadu]]'' (1966–1971), and ''[[La Muralla Roja]]'' (1968–1973) in [[Calp]].<ref>{{cite thesis|website=Escola Técnica i Superior d'Arquitectura La Salle - Universitat Ramon Llull |title=La Agregación Modular Como Mecanismo Proyectual Residencial en España: El Taller de Arquitectura |author=Pedro Alberto García Hernández |url=https://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/108286#page=1 |date=2013|type=Ph.D. Thesis }}</ref> 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 [[Moratalaz]] area of [[Madrid]] in 1970 but was abruptly stopped by Francoist mayor [[Carlos Arias Navarro]].<ref>{{cite web |website=Bitácora Arquitectura |title=La cultura de la rebelión. La ciudad en el espacio de Moratalaz. Taller de Arquitectura (1969-1970) |url=http://bitacora.arquitectura.unam.mx/la-cultura-de-la-rebelion/ |author1=Montserrat Villaverde Rey |author2=Anna Martínez Duran |date=30 November 2020 |access-date=28 February 2021 |archive-date=6 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206110724/http://bitacora.arquitectura.unam.mx/la-cultura-de-la-rebelion/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was instead realized with the construction of [[Walden 7]] in [[Sant Just Desvern]] near Barcelona (1970–1975). These projects were recognized as exemplars of [[critical regionalism]] and can be viewed as a reaction against both architectural modernism and the [[Francoist Spain|Francoist dictatorship]] in Spain.

Bofill then started working in France, and gradually introduced symbolic elements into the ''Taller'''s designs that echo French traditions of [[classical architecture]]. In 1971, he was invited by {{ill|Bernard Hirsch|fr}}, a key planner of the [[Cergy-Pontoise]] urban project, to develop a design concept analogous to that of the {{lang|es|Barrio Gaudí}} in Reus.{{R|A1H|page=111}} This morphed into a project named ''La Petite Cathédrale'' ("the small cathedral")<ref>{{cite web|website=Hidden Architecture |url=https://hiddenarchitecture.net/la-petite-cathedrale/ |title=La Petite Cathédrale |date=27 February 2017}}</ref> but actually intended as a large-scale development, which was approved in 1973 but canceled in 1974.{{R|A1H|pages=255-256}} 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]].<ref>{{cite web|website=Le Monde |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1978/10/27/m-chirac-fait-interrompre-la-construction-de-l-immeuble-bofill_2975760_1819218.html |title=M. Chirac fait interrompre la construction de l'immeuble Bofill |author=Michèle Champenois |date=27 October 1978}}</ref> Other projects did come to fruition in the ''{{ill|Villes nouvelles (France){{!}}villes nouvelles|fr|Politique des villes nouvelles françaises}}'' around Paris which offered a favorable environment for large-scale experimentation, including ''[[Les Espaces d'Abraxas]]'' in [[Marne-la-Vallée]] and ''[[Les Arcades du Lac]]'' in [[Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines]]. This phase culminated in the expansive [[Antigone, Montpellier|Antigone]] new district of [[Montpellier]] in Southern France, for which Bofill presented the initial master plan in 1978.<ref>{{cite web|website=Association Georges Frêche |title=Antigone : Ricardo Bofill présente le projet |url=http://www.georgesfreche-lassociation.fr/media/antigone-ricardo-bofill-presente-le-projet.html}}</ref> It is associated with both large-scale industrialization in [[precast concrete]] 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 [[Postmodern architecture|postmodern architects]] to have lived and created in Europe.<ref>{{cite web|website=Architectural Digest |title=Discover the Surreal Architecture of Postmodernist Ricardo Bofill |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/ricardo-bofill-architecture |author=Stefanie Waldek |date=5 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|website=Newsweek |title=Dreams and Manifestos: The Architectural Vision of Ricardo Bofill |url=https://www.newsweek.com/dreams-manifestos-architectural-vision-ricardo-bofill-1420288 |author=Tom Morris |date=14 May 2019}}</ref>

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 [[pediment]]s. Representative projects of that period include the [[77 West Wacker Drive]] office tower in [[Chicago]], the extension of [[Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport|Barcelona Airport]] ahead of the [[1992 Summer Olympics]], and the [[Teatre Nacional de Catalunya|National Theater of Catalonia]], also in Barcelona.

In 2000, Bofill re-centralized the activities of the ''Taller'' at its [[La Fábrica (Sant Just Desvern)|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|W Barcelona Hotel]] on the Barcelona seafront and the [[Mohammed VI Polytechnic University]] in [[Ben Guerir]], [[Morocco]].

==Personal life and death==

Bofill met Italian actress [[Serena Vergano]] in 1962;{{R|A1H|page=250}} 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.<ref name=Sandoval/> Both sons eventually worked with their father at [[Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura]], and are co-leading the firm as of January 2022.<ref>{{cite web |website=ArchDaily |url=https://www.archdaily.com/975152/ricardo-bofill-passes-away-at-82 |date={{date|2022/01/14}} |title=Ricardo Bofill Passes Away at 82 |author=Nicolás Valencia}}</ref> From the 1990s, Bofill lived in Barcelona together with Catalan designer [[Marta de Vilallonga]].<ref name=Sandoval>{{cite web|website=La Vanguardia |title=Se casó Pablo Bofill, hijo del arquitecto |url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/gente/bodas-famosas/20140614/54409959139/se-caso-pablo-bofill-hijo-arquitecto.html |author=Josep Sandoval |date=14 June 2014}}</ref> In October 2021, he was named in the [[Pandora Papers]].<ref>[https://www.lasexta.com/pandora-papers/arquitecto-ricardo-bofill-recibio-poder-general-controlar-sociedad-panama_20211020616fce1ccc1bb000014b4281.html El arquitecto Ricardo Bofill recibió el poder general para controlar una sociedad en Panamá] {{in lang|es}}</ref>

He died from complications linked to [[COVID-19]] in Barcelona on {{date|2022/01/14}}, at the age of 82.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bernstein|first=Fred A.|date=2022-01-19|title=Ricardo Bofill, Architect of Otherworldly Buildings, Dies at 82|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/arts/design/ricardo-bofill-dead.html|access-date=2022-01-20|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Zabalbeascoa |first1=Anatxu |title=Muere Ricardo Bofill, el más cosmopolita de los arquitectos españoles |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-01-14/muere-ricardo-bofill-el-mas-cosmopolita-de-los-arquitectos-espanoles.html |access-date=14 January 2022 |publisher=El Pais |date=14 January 2022}}</ref>

==Selected works==
{{Main|List of works by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura}}

===Urban design===
* Large-scale master plans for [[Central Artery|Boston Central Artery]] (1987), [[Kobe]] waterfront (1991), [[Nansha, Guangzhou|Nansha District]] in [[Guangdong]] (1992), [[Diagonal Mar i el Front Marítim del Poblenou|Barcelona Diagonal Mar]] (1992), [[Paseo de la Castellana]] extension in Madrid (1996/1999), [[Trinity River (Texas)|Trinity Riverfront]] in Dallas (2013), Greater Moscow (2013)
* [[Antigone, Montpellier|Antigone]] district in [[Montpellier]], developed from 1979 with many buildings also designed by Bofill and his ''Taller''
* Master plan for the redevelopment of the [[Kirchberg, Luxembourg|Kirchberg district]] in [[Luxembourg City]] (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 [[Reus]] (''{{ill|Gaudí District (Reus){{!}}Barrio Gaudí|ca|Barri Gaudí (Reus)}}'', 1970), [[Marne-la-Vallée]] (''[[Les Espaces d'Abraxas]]'', 1982), [[Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines]] (''[[Les Arcades du Lac]]'', 1982), [[Cergy-Pontoise]] (''Le Belvédère Saint-Christophe'', 1985), [[Stockholm]] ([[Bofills båge|På Söder Crescent]], 1992), [[The Hague]] (''{{ill|Burgemeester De Monchyplein|nl}}'', 2004)
* [[Mohammed VI Polytechnic University]] campus in [[Ben Guerir]], Morocco (2011/2016)

===Buildings===
* [[La Fábrica (Sant Just Desvern)|La Fábrica]], headquarters of [[Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura]] and residence for Bofill and his family (1975)
* Early housing complexes in Spain based on geometrical pattern combinations: ''[[El Castillo de Kafka]]'' (1968), ''[[Xanadu (Calp)|Xanadu]]'' (1971), ''[[La Muralla Roja]]'' (1973), ''[[Walden 7]]'' (1975)
* [[Les Échelles du Baroque]] apartment building in Paris (1985)
* [[77 West Wacker Drive]] office tower in Chicago (1992)
* [[IFEMA Palacio Municipal|Madrid Congress Center]] (1993)
* [[Teatre Nacional de Catalunya|National Theater of Catalonia]] in Barcelona (1997)
* [[Casablanca Twin Center]] in Casablanca, Morocco (1999)
* {{ill|Miguel Delibes Cultural Center|es|Centro Cultural Miguel Delibes}} in [[Valladolid]], Spain (2007)
* [[W Barcelona|W Hotel]] on the Barcelona waterfront (2009)
* Terminal 2 (1992) and Terminal 1 (2009) of [[Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport]]

===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: [[Odile Jacob]], 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: [[Odile Jacob]], 1995

===Filming===
* ''Circles'', 1966. Color, 35&nbsp;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&nbsp;mm, 60 minutes. Directed by Ricardo Bofill, Carles Durán and Manolo Núñez Yanosvski. Actors: [[Serena Vergano]], 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,<ref>{{cite web|author=Julien Damon |title=La France recomposée |url=https://www.telos-eu.com/fr/la-france-recomposee.html |website=Telos |date=2021-11-16}}</ref> political scientist [[Jérôme Fourquet]] and journalist Jean-Laurent Cassely wrote that "the monumental projects designed by Spanish architect Ricardo-Bofill in Noisy-le-Grand ([[Les Espaces d'Abraxas]]), in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ([[Les Arcades du Lac]]) and in Montpellier (the [[Antigone, Montpellier|Antigone neighborhood]]) are basically the architectural signature of the 1980s" in the country.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Jérôme Fourquet |author2=Jean-Laurent Cassely |title=La France sous nos yeux : Economie, paysages, nouveaux modes de vie |page=207 |publisher=Seuil |location=Paris |date=October 2021}}</ref>

===Exhibitions===
{{Main|Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura}}

Bofill and his ''[[Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura|Taller de Arquitectura]]'' were featured in three exhibitions of the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in [[New York City]]: "Transformations in Modern Architecture" (1979), "Ricardo Bofill and Leon Krier: Architecture, Urbanism, and History" (1985), and "Architecture & Design Drawings: Rotation 3" (2006).<ref>{{cite web|website=MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/632 |title=Ricardo Bofill}}</ref> They were also featured at the [[Venice Biennale]] in 1980, 1982, and 1992.

===Degrees and awards===
* 1968: Fritz Schumacher Honoris Causa Degree, [[University of Hamburg]]
* 1978: [[American Society of Interior Designers]], International Prize
* 1979: Architecte Agréé, {{ill|Ordre des Architectes (France)|fr|Conseil national de l'Ordre des architectes}}
* 1980: Prize of Architecture of the City of Barcelona, for the renovation of the cement factory in Sant Just Desvern
* 1985: Honorary Fellow, [[American Institute of Architects]]
* 1989: Ordre des Architectes Conseils du Brabant, Belgium
* 1989: Chicago Architecture Award, Illinois Council / [[American Institute of Architects]] / [[Architectural Record]]
* 1989: Académie Internationale de Philosophie de l´Art, Bern, Switzerland
* 1995: Doctor Honoris Causa, [[Paul Verlaine University – Metz|Metz University]]
* 1996: Honorary Fellow of the [[Association of German Architects]]
* 2009: Life Time Achievement Award, Israeli Building Center
* 2009: Vittorio de Sica Architecture Prize, Quirinal, Rome
* 2021: Doctor Honoris Causa, [[Polytechnic University of Catalonia]]<ref>{{cite web |website=Polytechnic University of Catalonia |title=The UPC has conferred an honorary doctoral degree on the architect Ricardo Bofill Levi |date={{date|2021/09/30}} |url=https://www.upc.edu/en/press-room/news/ricardo-bofill-levi-honorary-doctoral-degree}}</ref>

===Honors===
* 1984: Officer of l'[[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]], France
* 1993: [[List of recipients of the Creus de Sant Jordi|Creu de Sant Jordi]], Catalonia

==Influence==

Several architects who worked with Bofill went on to create significant architecture firms of their own, notably {{ill|Manuel Núñez Yanowsky|es}} in 1978, [[Nabil Gholam]] in 1994, and {{ill|Philippe Chiambaretta|fr}} in 2000. [[Bjarke Ingels]] has acknowledged the seminal influence of Bofill's early work such as La Fábrica and Walden 7 on his own vision of what creativity could achieve in architecture.<ref>{{citation |author=Manel Arranz & Elisabeth Anglarill |title=Ricardo Bofill: la hoja en blanco |date=November 2023 |url=https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/imprescindibles/ricardo-bofill-hoja-blanco/7005459/ |publisher=RTVE}}</ref>

==Gallery==
{{cleanup gallery|date=April 2024}}
<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 Barcelona|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|[[IFEMA Palacio Municipal|Palacio Municipal de Congresos]], Madrid<ref name=lavangu>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/madrid/20130424/54372770360/el-palacio-municipal-de-congresos-retoma-sus-actividad-con-un-acto-para-conmemorar-sus-dos-decadas.html|website=[[La Vanguardia]]|title=El Palacio Municipal de Congresos retoma sus actividad con un acto para conmemorar sus dos décadas de vida|date=24 April 2013}}</ref>
</gallery>

==See also==
* [[Vittorio Gregotti]]
* [[Léon Krier]]
* [[Aldo Rossi]]
* [[Moshe Safdie]]
* [[New Urbanism]]
* [[New Classical architecture]]

==References==

===Notes===
{{Reflist}}

===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===
{{Commons category|Ricardo Bofill}}
* [http://www.ricardobofill.com/ Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura's Website]
* [http://www.epdlp.com/arquitecto.php?id=20 Photos of selected works of Ricardo Bofill]
* [http://www.someslashthings.com/ricardo-bofill/ Ricardo Bofill feature in some/things] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123212505/http://www.someslashthings.com/ricardo-bofill/ |date=23 January 2015 }}

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