Ricardo Bofill Levi was a Spanish architect from Barcelona, Catalonia.
13 Facts About Ricardo Bofill
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Ricardo Bofill founded Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in 1963 and developed it into a leading international architectural and urban design practice.
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Ricardo Bofill's father Emilio Bofill was an architect, builder, and developer who studied at Escola Tecnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona, Catalonia's oldest professional architecture school.
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Ricardo Bofill's sister Anna Bofill Levi is an architect, composer, pianist, and author.
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Ricardo Bofill went to school at the Escola Virtelia from 1942, the Catholic in Barcelona from 1949, then at the Lycee francais de Barcelone in the 1950s.
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Ricardo Bofill spent much of his youth traveling, first with his family and later on his own, and developed a passion for vernacular architecture.
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Ricardo Bofill moved to Switzerland and enrolled at the Haute Ecole d'art et de design Geneve in 1958, which he left in 1960 to return to Spain.
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Ricardo Bofill's first architecture design was a summer home in Ibiza, completed in 1960.
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Ricardo Bofill was again arrested and briefly incarcerated on political grounds in Barcelona in 1964.
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Ricardo Bofill then started working in France, and gradually introduced symbolic elements into the Taller's designs that echo French traditions of classical architecture.
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In 2000, Ricardo Bofill re-centralized the activities of the Taller at its head office near Barcelona.
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Ricardo Bofill and French visual artist Annabelle d'Huart had another son, Pablo Ricardo Bofill, born in 1980.
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Ricardo Bofill died from complications linked to COVID-19 in Barcelona on 14 January 2022, at the age of 82.