His projects – more than 1,000!
– are known all over the world, and more particularly in France.
Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill died on Friday at the age of 82 from complications related to Covid-19, his family announced.
"He died a few hours ago," his son Pablo Bofill told AFP.
In a statement, his studio, the Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, said he died in Barcelona and paid tribute "to the Spanish architect who had the greatest international career".
The spaces of Abraxas, setting of the last "Hunger Games"
Born on December 5, 1939 in Barcelona to a Catalan architect father 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- Francoist, before continuing his studies in Geneva. Founded in 1963, his architecture studio, the Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, installed in an old cement factory on the outskirts of Barcelona, has signed more than 1,000 projects all over the world.
We owe to Ricardo Bofill in particular 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 Antigone district in Montpellier or the Abraxas spaces in Noisy-le-Grand, in the suburbs of Paris, where filmed several scenes of
Brazil
, Terry Gilliam's cult science fiction film, as well as the latest installment of the
Hunger Games
film saga .
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