Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitecture

Profile Company profile Team philosophy Selected projects Project video Honours and Awards

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Profil

Ricardo Bofill, also Ricard Bofill Leví (born December 5, 1939), is a Spanish architect, who, since 1963, continues to lead the international architectural and practice Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. Ricardo Bofill was born into a family of builders in 1939 in , . He studied at the Barcelona University School of Architecture and graduated from the School of Geneva. At the age of seventeen Ricardo Bofill designed his first project, a summer Barcelona University home in Ibiza, and by twenty-three became lead architect of el Taller. Over fifty years school of later, Bofill still leads Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, with over 1000 projects architecture to date in over 50 countries.

During his adolescence, Ricardo Bofill studied at the Lycée Français de Barcelone. He spent much of his youth traveling throughout Spain, spending a significant amount of time in Andalusia where he discovers Spanish vernacular architecture. In 1957, he attended the Barcelona School of Architecture. While there, like many students of the time, he began developing strong Marxist ideals. During a demonstration, he was arrested and expelled from the university and Spain. Ricardo Bofill fled Barcelona in 1958 for Genève, where he attended the Université de Beaux-Arts Genève to complete his education. Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitecture

Company profile

Ricardo Bofill - Taller de Arquitectura is a leading international studio for architecture, planning and design.

This international brand has been a synonym of exclusive and coherent urban and architecture design for over 50 years.

The office is led by Ricardo Bofill and two partners - Peter Hodgkinson and Jean-Pierre Carniaux– and employs a staff of around 60 of 12 nationalities; a multidisciplinary cohesive team made of urban planners, architects, engineers, interior, graphic and industrial designers and model makers.

With a focal interest in urban design the studio has established an international reputation with projects such as Place de l’Europe (Luxembourg), Nova Karlin (Prague), Port Praski (Warsaw), New Castellana (), Tarragona’s new seafront, Nova Bocana (Barcelona), Puerto Triana (Seville), Central Artery (Boston) and in the Japanese city of Kobe. The Antigone quarter in Montpellier, France (4 million square feet built) is a tangible example of a project on a grand scale, a part of the city, which has been designed and constructed by the team during twenty years.

The Taller de Arquitectura’s assertion that the city should be formed by streets and squares is more that a simple programmatic declaration in opposition to the model adopted in the construction of isolated blocks separated by extensive open spaces. The Taller has put forward the model of the sustainable Mediterranean city with its well-defined public space, as the model to be followed in new town planning schemes. Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitecture

Team philosophy

In 1963 Ricardo Bofill gathered a group of architects, engineers, planners, sociologist, writers, musicians, movie makers and philosophers, and founded Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, an international and multidisciplinary team dedicated to analyzing the problems of the city, its people and their relations; the design of alternative architecture, of regional-critical architecture that revolutionized the XX century modern urbanism and architectural scene with revolutionary designs that became prototypes and unique icons across the world.

Its spirit of research and investigation has been one of the continuous elements that has kept the team going for more than 40 years.

The team’s quest for creativity is a process through a maximum freedom and independence. Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitecture

Selected project

UPC Campus Nord, building Nexus II, Hotel W Barcelona Barcelona, Spain West Wacker Drive, Chicago, EEUU

Oceanic Valencia Spain Barcelona Airport Terminal 1 Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitecture

Project video

Barcelona Airport, Spain Walden 7, Barcelona

Shangri- La Hotel 7, Barcelona University Mohammed VI

W Hotel and Barcelona Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitecture

Honours and Awards

2009: Vittorio de Sica Architecture Prize 2009: Life Time Achievement Award. The Israelí Building Center 1996: Named honorary fellow of the Bund Deutscher Architekter (BDA) Bonn, Germany 1995: Awarded Doctor Honoris Causa, Metz University, France 1989: Awarded Architect in Belgium, Ordre des Architectes Conseil du Brabant, Brussels. 1989: Chicago Architecture Award, Illinois Council/American Institute of Architects/Architectural Record, Chicago, USA 1989: Awarded by the Académie Internationale de Philosophie de l´Art, Bern, Switzerland. 1985: Named honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects. 1984: Awarded Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Degree, Ministry of Culture, Paris, France. 1980: Awarded Ciudad de Barcelona Prize of Architecture for renovation of the cement factory in , Barcelona, Spain. 1979: Awarded Architecte Agrée Degree Ordre National des Architectes, Paris, France. 1978: Awarded A.S.I.D. (American Society of Interior Designers), International Prize, New York. 1968: Awarded Fritz Schumacher, Honoris Causa Degree, University of Hamburg, Germany. Thank you