Biography
Ricardo Bofill Leví was a Spanish architect born December 5, 1939 in Barcelona and died January 14, 2022 in Barcelona. He is particularly known in France for the creation of the Abraxas spaces in Noisy-le-Grand and the Antigone district in Montpellier. His main influences are the architects Palladio, Mansart and Ledoux. Ricardo Bofill is the son of the Catalan Emilio Bofill y Benessat, architect, and a Venetian, Maria Levi. He began his studies at the French high school in Barcelona, allowing him to master this language. He continued at the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Barcelona, until his expulsion due to his activism in the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. He is also part, with other Spanish intellectuals of the 1960s, of the divine left. His anti-Franco action led him to continue his education at the Geneva School of Architecture. He did not return to Barcelona until after Franco's death in 1975. In 1963, he surrounded himself with architects, engineers, sociologists and philosophers, the core of what is today the Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. The group moved to Barcelona in 1975 in a former cement factory, La Fabrica, an initiative that has since be…
Movies & TV Shows
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Tomorrow Is Another Day (1967) — Mario (uncredited)
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BiBici Story (1969)
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Apostrophes (1975) — Self
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Droit de Réponse (1981) — Self
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Art a Catalunya (1992) — Self
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Barcelone vu par Ricardo Bofill (2003) — Self
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In Residence: Ricardo Bofill (2014) — Self
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La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català (2019) — Self (archive footage)
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Savis i sàvies (2008) — Self - Interviewee
