He signed more than 1,000 projects around the world and was, in France, particularly renowned for his large ensembles. The famous Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill died on Friday January 14 at the age of 82.
His son, Pablo Bofill, told Agence France-Presse this afternoon that the architect had died of complications related to Covid-19.
In a statement, the master’s studio, the “Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura” (RBTA or Atelier d’architecture Ricardo Bofill, in French), said that Ricardo Bofill died in Barcelona (northeast of the Spain) paying homage “to the Spanish architect who has had the greatest international career”.
Founded in 1963, his architecture studio was housed in an old cement factory on the outskirts of Barcelona.
an architect in particular of social housing
Born on December 5, 1939 in Barcelona to a Catalan father, himself an architect, and a Venetian mother, Ricardo Bofill Levi began his studies in 1957 at the Barcelona School of Architecture, from which he was expelled for anti-Franco activism, before continuing his studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
We owe him the airport of Barcelona, the National Theater of Catalonia, the Palace of Congresses in Madrid or the Donnelley and Dearborn skyscrapers in Chicago.
In France, where he was very well known and particularly appreciated, Bofill signed large social housing complexes, such as the Espaces d’Abraxas in Noisy-le-Grand, in the suburbs of Paris, where several scenes from “Brazil », cult film of anticipation by Terry Gilliam (1985), or the Antigone district in Montpellier (south).