Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
| Industry | Architecture |
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| Founded | 1963 |
| Founder | Ricardo Bofill |
| Headquarters | Barcelona, Spain |
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Ricardo Bofill |
| Website | www |
Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA) is a Spanish architecture firm that was founded in 1963. It is headquartered in a re-purposed cement factory in Barcelona, referred to as ”La Fabrica”. El Taller consists of a diverse team of architects and urban planner, graphic designers and economists, from over 20 countries. To date, the firm has over 1000 projects in over 40 countries.
Founded in 1963 by Ricardo Bofill, Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura brought together a multidisciplinary team consisting of architects, engineers, planners, sociologist, writers, movie makers and philosophers. “The firm recuperated the characteristic craftsmanship of traditional Catalan architecture (Catalan Modernism), while proposing spaces that defied the time’s cultural, social and architectural norms. Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura sought to resolve local urban planning problems, within the Spanish political and social context. In the context of the standardized methods and utilization of Modernism for the mass reconstruction of housing and urban planning schemes following World War II, El Taller’s work differentiates from the standard approach, as defined by the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). The necessity to approach large scale projects, led El Taller to conceive a ridged yet organic methodology based on the geometric formation of elements in space”.
In 1963 Ricardo Bofill joined his family business, forming the Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. Since its founding, he serves as Director and Chairman of the firms’ numerous offices throughout the world. Born in 1939 in Barcelona, Spain, he studied at the Barcelona University School of Architecture and graduated from the School of Geneva. He is an honorary AIA member, and has won numerous awards throughout the world for architecture. Further, he is a published author, co-writing Espaces d’une vie and L’Architecture des Villes.
Hodgkinson is a Partner architect and has been with El Taller since 1966. He was born in England in 1940, and received his degree from the Architectural Academy in London. He has published in numerous specialized journals such as: AR, AD, Record, etc., and spoken as guest lecturer in Australia, South Africa, England, France, the Netherlands, and Scotland.
He has been involved with and studied all facets of architectural project design, with especial emphasis on transport infrastructures, airports in particular, where he has gained considerable experience in solving functional problems involving flows and circulations.
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