Looking back on the life and work of noted architect Ricardo Bofill
Ricardo Bofill stands on the roof of his office in Barcelona, Spain, with one of his buildings, the Walden 7 apartment complex, in the background. Photo: julio donoso/Sygma via Getty Images For many people, their introduction to the work of Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill comes from the image of his grand social housing project, the monumental and colonnaded Espaces d’Abraxas, standing in as the dystopian headquarters in Brazil and The Hunger Games.
Second to this, Bofill was a socialist, so much so that he got kicked out of the Barcelona School of Architecture for flirting with politics, and was exiled to Switzerland, where he completed his studies. This socialist undercurrent drew Bofill toward the mass social housing projects for which he is best known, and his beliefs were considered dangerous enough that one of these projects, the City in Space, was stopped in 1970 by a Francoist mayor.
It is no coincidence that the buildings Bofill is most remembered for are those that were the most explicitly idealistic, the ones he built as late as the 1980s — long after the great housing experiments of the first half of the 20th century had begun to lose steam. Many late modern architects such Paul Rudolph and Kisho Kurakawa had since confined such ideas to paper architecture in the ’70s, but Bofill got them built.
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