Biblioteca Tomás Carrasquilla(11)-Medellin

Ricardo La Rotta Caballero is an architect in

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

and the principal at the La Rotta Arquitectos firm. His work includes La Quintana Library, a library park named after

Tomás Carrasquilla Tomás Carrasquilla Naranjo (1858 – 1940) was a Colombian writer who lived in the Antioquia region. He dedicated himself to very simple jobs: tailor, secretary of a judge, storekeeper in a mine, and worker at the Ministry of Public ...

Medellín Medellín ( or ), officially the Municipality of Medellín ( es, Municipio de Medellín), is the second-largest city in Colombia, after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of Antioquia. It is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central re ...

. Along with Architects Juan Manuel López and Ramón Quevedo, La Rotta was selected as an architect for an ecological redevelopment project north of Bogotá. In 2006, La Rotta's work on the project with Quevedo and López on Edifício Compensar in Bogotá which was selected as one of the 10 "projects of the year" by the publication ''Semana''. La Rotta was also involved in the project of the Plaza of

Zipaquirá Zipaquirá () is a municipality and city of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. Its neighboring municipalities are Cogua and Nemocón to the north; Tocancipá to the east; Tabio, Cajicá and Sopó to the south; and Subachoque and Pacho ...

. La Rotta won a design competition for the ne
Arts faculty building
at

Javeriana University The Pontifical Xavierian University (in Spanish Pontificia Universidad Javeriana) is a private higher education institution founded in 1623. It is one of the oldest, most traditional, and prestigious Colombian universities, directed by the Socie ...

Education and career

La Rotta studied architecture at

in Bogotá. He worked with

Rogelio Salmona Rogelio Salmona (April 28, 1929 – October 3, 2007) was a French Colombian architect. He was noted for his extensive use of red brick in his buildings and for using natural shapes like spirals, radial geometry and curves in his designs. Dur ...

as an urban designer and at the firm of

Daniel Bermúdez Daniel Bermúdez Samper (born 1950) is a Colombian architect, and Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the University of the Andes. Daniel was born in 1950 in Bogotá. His father was modern architect Guillermo Bermúdez Uma� ...

and Cía. In 2002 he started his own firm, La Rotta Arquitectos (La Rotta Architects). He is also a professor of Urban Design at

and at the

University of the Andes (Colombia) The University of The Andes ( es, Universidad de los Andes), also commonly self-styled as Uniandes, is a private research university located in the city centre of Bogotá, Colombia. Founded in 1948 by a group of Colombian intellectuals led by Mar ...

in Bogotá. His most prominent projects have included Centro Social Calle 94-Compensar, el parque-biblioteca Tomás Carrasquilla (the Tomás Carrasquilla Park and Library), the

Jorge Tadeo Lozano Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Viscount of Pastrana (January 30, 1771 – July 6, 1816) was a Neogranadine (now Colombian) scientist, journalist, and politician who presided over the Constituent College of Cundinamarca and was elected President of Cundin ...

Art & Design faculty building at its University Campus in Bogotá La Rotta
ARQA and the Arts Faculty main building at Javeriana University.

References

External links

La Rotta Arquitectos
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