Ricardo Bofill, Architect of Startling Buildings, Dies at 82
The New York Times-Arts·2022-01-20 06:05
Ricardo Bofill, a Spanish architect behind some of the world’s most startling buildings, died on Friday at a hospital in Barcelona. He was 82.
The cause was Covid-19, his son Pablo said.
Among Mr. Bofill’s best known works were public housing projects, most of them built in France in the 1980s, with vastly overscale classical elements, which were both derided as kitsch and hailed by critics as the long-awaited middle ground between historicism and modernity.
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