Explore Ricardo Bofill Taller De Arquitectura Imagined By Ricardo Bofill Presented In Paper Edition

than a halfcentury after its founding, Ricardo Bofill Taller de

Arquitectura RBTA continues to redefine the boundaries of contemporary architecture and urban design.
As the first independent publication about Ricardo Bofills work since, this celebratory and critical book surveys the entirety of RBTAs legacy with a particular emphasis on the lastyears of the practice, and includes such projects as the Madrid Congress Centre,Terminals,, and,, at Barcelona Airport the W Hotel Economia Newsroom,, in Prague and the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University,, in Morocco as well as headquarters buildings for Shiseido, Cartier, JC Decaux and others.


Founded inand currently led by Ricardo Bofill, Ricardo Bofill Jr and Pablo Bofill, RBTA operates out of La Fabrica, a converted excement factory on the outskirts of Barcelona.
As a world unto its own, La Fabrica is emblematic of RBTAs legacy as a practice with a worldmaking vision, an insatiable appetite for innovation and a penchant for fusing functionality with timelessness.
Under the collaborative expertise of an international team from overdifferent countries, Bofills legacy spanscountries with more than,projects across a multitude of scales and building typologies.


From the supersaturated compositions of projects such as La Muralla Roja,, on the Spanish coast, to the monumental Les Espaces dAbraxas social housing development,, outside of Paris, Bofills contributions to twentiethcentury architecture and urban design are unquestioned.
Yet how the practice has continued to transform and evolve in order to respond to twentyfirstcentury architectures new demands has yet to be documented.
As such, Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura addresses the work of the firm from its inception through to the present, and is one of Artifices most important recent titles, along with those on the work of Colin St John Wilson, Alvar Aalto, Alan Colquhoun, Berthold Lubetkin and Michael Wilford with James Stirling.
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