1996
It’s not very often that a world famous architect decides to reveal in a book the explanation and justification of his or her work; it is significant that Ricardo Bofill, representative of a “postmodernism” that prefers always language and value than functionality of the architectural form, has had the urge to do it now.
In “Spaces of a lifetime” Bofill articulates all the elements of what can be reasonably called his “poetics”, from the first big projects such as the “Red Wall” (Muralla Roja) and the “New Towns” (Villes Nouvelles) near Paris, to the large scale works for the Olympic Games in Barcelona, West Wacker Drive skyscraper in Chicago, or many landmark projects around the world.
