Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA) is a leading international studio for architecture, planning and design. This international brand has been a synonym of exclusive and coherent urban and architecture design for over 50 years. The office is led by Ricardo Bofill and two partners - Peter Hodgkinson and Jean-Pierre Carniaux– and employs a staff of around 60 of 12 nationalities; a multidisciplinary cohesive team made of urban planners, architects, engineers, interior, graphic and industrial designers and model makers. With a focal interest in urban design the studio has established an international reputation with projects such as Place de l’Europe (Luxembourg), Nova Karlin (Prague), Port Praski (Warsaw), New Castellana (Madrid), Tarragona’s new seafront, Nova Bocana (Barcelona), Puerto Triana (Seville), Central Artery (Boston) and in the Japanese city of Kobe. The Antigone quarter in Montpellier, France (4 million square feet built) is a tangible example of a project on a grand scale, a part of the city, which has been designed and constructed by the team during twenty years. The Taller de Arquitectura’s assertion that the city should be formed by streets and squares is more that a simple programmatic declaration in opposition to the model adopted in the construction of isolated blocks separated by extensive open spaces. The Taller has put forward the model of the sustainable Mediterranean city with its well-defined public space, as the model to be followed in new town planning schemes.