Ricardo Emilio Bofill (born 1965 in Barcelona), full

Spanish name Spanish names are the traditional way of identifying, and the official way of registering, a person in Spain. They comprise a given name (simple or composite) and two surnames (the first surname of each parent). Traditionally, the first surname ...

Ricardo Emilio Bofill Maggiora Vergano, also known as Ricardo Bofill Jr., is a Spanish architect, author and film director from

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...

. As of late January 2022, he is co-head of the architecture and design firm

Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA) is a architecture firm that was founded in 1963 by Ricardo Bofill, initially as Taller de Arquitectura ("Architecture Workshop" in Spanish). It is headquartered in Sant Just Desvern near Barcelona, in ...

(RBTA), jointly with his half-brother Pablo Bofill.

Biography

Ricardo Emilio Bofill is the son of architect

Ricardo Bofill Ricardo Bofill Leví (; 5 December 1939 – 14 January 2022) was a Spanish architect from Catalonia. He founded Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in 1963 and developed it into a leading international architectural and urban design practice. ...

, who founded RBTA in 1963, and of Italian actress

Serena Vergano Serena Vergano born Adalgisa Serena Maggiora Vergano (25 August 1943 in Milan, Italy), is an Italian actress. She was the muse of the Barcelona School of Film, acting in many of the films of this movement. Career Daughter of the director Aldo ...

. He went to school at St. Peter's School, then at , both in

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

. He studied architecture at

Rice University School of Architecture Rice School of Architecture, also referred to as ''Rice Architecture'', is a small undergraduate and graduate institution located within the international research university, Rice University in Houston, Texas. The graduate and undergraduate progr ...

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, then at

Harvard Graduate School of Design The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban ...

, and real estate development at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. In September 1993 he married socialite

Chabeli Iglesias María Isabel "Chábeli" Iglesias Preysler (born 3 September 1971) is a Spanish journalist and socialite. She is the daughter of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Filipina socialite Isabel Preysler, and the older sister of singers Julio Iglesia ...

; they separated in early 1995. From 1995 to early 2004 he was in a relationship with Mexican singer

Paulina Rubio Paulina Susana Rubio Dosamantes (; born 17 June 1971) is a Mexican singer. Referred to as "Honorific nicknames in popular music, The Golden Girl" and "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Latin Pop", she first achieved recognition as ...

. He joined RBTA in the late 1990s and has participated in the design of projects in China, India, and Russia.

Works

Fiction

* ''Perséfone'' (in Spanish), Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 1995 * ''Bajo mi piel'' (in Spanish), Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 1998

Film

* ' (in Spanish, featuring actors Macarena Gómez and

Enrique San Francisco Rogelio Enrique San Francisco Cobo (10 March 1955 – 1 March 2021), better known as Quique San Francisco, was a Spanish actor and comedian. He was a noted figure in the so-called ''cine quinqui'' scene. Biography Enrique marked his theat ...

among others), 2005

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bofill, Ricardo Emilio 1965 births Living people Architects from Catalonia Film directors from Catalonia Novelists from Catalonia Rice University alumni Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni Columbia University alumni

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