A Comment On Ricardo Bofill's Architecture Design Thought And Works

Ricardo Bofill is a celebrated Spanish Architect . In 1963 he founded, with a group of friends, what is known today as the Taller de Arquitectura. In his first working phase, he recovered characteristic regional characteristics of Catalan architecture. In 1971, Ricardo Bofill formed a complementary team in Paris. From that, Bofill concern himself with expression classicism in architecture. The article traced back the social background of Ricardo Bofill's times, analyzed the education he had received, and tried to research the influence that the previous and temporary architects gave to him. It also studied systematically and wholly his personally experience, interests and other aspects to probe into how a architect form his works, personal speeches. The article also conclude concreted Bofill's creative idea from his works and personal speeches. Besids, it introduced some typical works among them comprehensively, in order that you can understand directly the above mentioned design ideas , techniques and their use in practice. Undoubtedly, Bofill's attitude, methods, design ideas and skills have a great significance to Chinese architect.