RICARDO BOFILL TALLER DE ARQUITECTURA CONTRIBUTES
TO TIME SPACE EXISTENCE, COLLATERAL EVENT OF
TO TIME SPACE EXISTENCE, COLLATERAL EVENT OF
THE 14 TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
June 7, 2014 – November 23, 2014
RICARDO BOFILL TALLER DE ARQUITECTURA CONTRIBUTES
TO TIME SPACE EXISTENCE, COLLATERAL EVENT OF
TO TIME SPACE EXISTENCE, COLLATERAL EVENT OF
THE 14 TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION LA BIENNALE DI
VENEZIA
June 7, 2014 – November 23, 2014
Curated by Rene Rietmeyer and the Global Art Affairs Foundation
Curated by Rene Rietmeyer and the Global Art Affairs Foundation
La Biennale di Venezia, which opens to the media with previews on
June 5 and 6, and is open to the public from June 7 through November 23, 2014,
will feature a Collateral Event titled TIME SPACE EXISTENCE. Barcelona- based
Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA) will contribute an exhibition to
TIME SPACE EXISTENCE, at The Palazzo Bembo, located at Riva del Carbon, 4793-
4785, Venezia 30124.
The exhibition presents an architectural narrative based on La
Fabrica—the firm’s
well-known headquarters in a former cement factory in Barcelona.
The exhibition extends the space far beyond its physical existence in Spain, to
consider how it can also exist in other places, most specifically in Venice.
Drawing upon past, present, and future similarities between Barcelona and
Venice, the exhibition will reimagine La Fabrica as the Venice-based starting
point of a communal/ individual journey and thought process that transcends
physical and mental frames.
Visitors will enter the exhibition through an anteroom—a reinterpretation
of traditional Venetian room. Inside, a sequence of images narrates the
physical transformation of La Fabrica from a polluted cement factory into a
design office and residence, inundated with lush gardens. Visitors are invited
by a sound to then enter a rotunda where they are surrounded by imagery that
maps the transformative
design process and principals of RBTA, moving from what Ricardo
Bofill refers
to as, “death to life.” Using 3-D mapping and sound, the visitor is
surrounded by an
abstract sensorial experience that narrates the progression of
RBTA’s design process
throughout the past 50 years, looking into the future. The overall
experience will communicate RBTA’s narrative of TIME SPACE EXISTENCE through
360ยบ mapping.
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You may watch the whole video of exhibition to click above link of Ricardo Bofill's web page. Some photographs had taken by this exhibition video.
THE FACTORY
‘’ FROM DEATH TO LIFE ‘’
TIME SPACE EXISTENCE
THE FACTORY
‘’ FROM DEATH TO LIFE ‘’
TIME SPACE EXISTENCE
Ricardo Bofill believes that La Fabrica, even before it was
purposed 150 years ago as a cement factory, was closely connected to its future
as an architecture office. He explains, “The creation and subsequent narration
of this journey details a sequential
notion of time, constructed with and informed by human and social
thought. The
exhibition will show how narrative programming reflects diversity
in architecture, not
just through stylistic differentiation but also through stories of
origins, as well as present and future influence.” Furthering the concept of
the narrative, RBTA’s exhibition will define the plot, the key characters, the
pivotal turning points, the climax, and an epilogue.
Bofill, an acknowledged architectural master, will use the space
inside Palazzo Bembo
to narrate the transformation of factory’s decaying no-man’s land
to a new community, from a dead-use space to a progressive design hub. The
structure will represent the evolving manifestation of a specific history. As a
cement factory, La Fabrica bred death and decay; organically, through the eyes
of a visionary architect, it rose from the ashes to thrive in ways once thought
unimaginable. Today, it emerges from lush gardens overflowing with eucalyptus,
palms, olive trees and cypresses. Bofill describes the factory as “a magic
place with a strange atmosphere…
where life can be perfectly programmed, ritualized; in total
contrast with the turbulence and nomadic nature of modern daily life.”
Ricardo E. Bofill adds, “Even after a leap 100 years into the
future, La Fabrica’s evolution does not end. What was once unimaginable will
continue to unfold. The story told at Venice will describe La Fabrica’s
transformation from a 100-year-old cement factory to an office for
architecture, and then will imagine its future – perhaps it will become a
wastewater treatment plant.”
The use of a narrative for an architecture project incorporates
memories, stories, and social perceptions to create a psychological as well as
a tangible space. Spacetime
design vectors enhance the narrative’s vocabulary to create new
forms of culture.
To accommodate future use and necessity, architects must draw on
the past and
present. Architects are not fortune-tellers. But instead, creators
of fables, hoping to manifest an accurate reality. The narrative takes into
consideration issues that are dealt with by architects daily, and over periods
as long as an era. These issues include environmental problems caused by traffic
congestion, pollution, insufficient infrastructure, and the depletion of
national resources. Using an architectural narrative, architects propose a
range of solutions to problems for which there is no singular remedy,
customized case-by-case to a location’s particular time, place, and DNA.
You may visit Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura's projects of
Cement Factory and Qingdao Airport to click below links from my blog archive.
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2013/11/cement-factory-design-by-ricardo-bofill.html
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2013/12/qingdao-airport-design-by-ricardo-bofill.html
MIGUEL DELIBES
CULTURAL CENTER
2007, VALLADOLID,
SPAIN
W BARCELONA HOTEL
2009, BARCELONA, SPAIN
LA MURALLA ROJA
1968, CALPE, SPAIN
QINGDAO AIRPORT
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RICARDO BOFILL
Ricardo Bofill, born in 1939 in Barcelona, graduated from the
Barcelona University School of Architecture and the School of Geneva. In 1963
he gathered a multidisciplinary team to confront the complexity of
architectural practice, forming the Taller de Arquitectura. Bofill first gained
notoriety for recuperating the characteristic craft elements of traditional
Catalan architecture, applying them to geometric formations of elements in
space. Developed in a theoretical manner with the Project The City in Space,
and made it concrete with the construction of the projects Walden 7, Muralla
Roja and Xanadu. In 1971 he formed a complementary team in Paris, in response
to the demands of various projects for the French “New Towns”. During this
phase, Bofill introduced in his proposals symbolic elements
directly related to the French monumental architecture.
La Petite Cathรฉdrale and La Maison d’Abraxas are examples of these
inhabited monuments. Bofill’s design studies for precast concrete units
contributed in the 1980’s to the Taller’s affirmation of the validity of
classical forms and geometry in contemporary architecture. In the 1990’s, the
inclusion of glass and steel amongst the materials used in his projects is
simply the outcome of a process marked by the study of and research into forms
and materials. In 2000 Bofill regrouped his activity in Spain. From his
headquarters, a former cement factory in the outskirts of Barcelona,
Bofill’s Taller continues the spirit and philosophy that motivated
his team in the early1960s to approach international projects from the large
scale of urban design
contributing to a new “integrated urbanism.”
AWARDS AND HONORARY MENTIONS
Awarded Doctor Honoris Causa, Metz University, France, 1995
Belgium, Ordre des Architectes Conseil du Brabant, Brussels, 1989
Chicago Architecture Award, Illinois Council/ American Institute of
Architects/Architectural Record, Chicago, USA, 1989
Acadรฉmie Internationale de Philosophie de l’Art, Bern, Switzerland,
1989
Honarary Fellow of the American Instiute of Architects, 1985
Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Degree, Ministry of
Culture, Paris, France, 1984
Ciudad de Barcelona Prize of Architecture for renovation of the
cement factory in Sant Just Desvern, Barcelona, Spain, 1980
Architecte Agrรฉe Degree Ordre National des Architectes, Paris,
France, 1979
A.S.I.D. (American Society of Interior Designers), International
Prize, New York, 1978
Fritz Schumacher, Honoris Causa Degree, University of Hamburg,
Germany, 1968
ADI-FAD Award in Architecture for building on calle Nicaragua 99,
Barcelona, Spain, 1963
PRIZES FOR CONSTRUCTION
“Tokyo Architecture Award 2002” By Tokyo Association of
Architectural Firms for Shiseido Building in Tokyo
“Prรฉmio Valmor e Municipal de Arquitectura 2001” for Atrium
Saldanha in Lisbon
The Chicago Lighting Award of Merit for Donnelley Building, Chicago
West Wacker Award of Merit (Structural Engineers Association of
Illinois) for Donnelley Building, Chicago
Award for Support of Affirmative Action 1992, Chicago Urban League
for Donnelley Building, Chicago
Real Estate Development of the year 1993, Chicago Sun-Times for
Donnelley Building, Chicago
The Excellence in Engineering Award 1993, American Society of H. R.
A.C. Engineers for Donnelley Building, Chicago
Best New Building Award 1993, Friends of Downtown for Donnelley
Building, Chicago
Grand Award for Interior Landscape Contractors American Landscape
Contractors for Donnelley Building, Chicago
One Star – Architectural Interest 1996. Michelin Guide of Chicago
for Donnelley Building, Chicago
Favorite Building and Favorite Lobby Survey of Chicago Tribune
readers for Donnelley Building, Chicago
ADI-FAD Award in Architecture for Building on Nicaragua street no
99. Barcelona, 1964
FAD Award in Design for the lattice of Compositor Bach street no 28
building. Barcelona, 1963
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RICARDO E. BOFILL
MAGGIORA
Ricardo E. Bofill started at RBTA in 1992 as a model– maker
summer–intern, was assistant at the Rice summer Institute at the Taller, was
later assistant Commercial Officer, assistant Chief Architect, Chief Architect,
was Head of RBTA China, Head of India, before becoming President of the Company
in 2012.
Ricardo focuses on large–scale international urban projects, in
which he resolves progressive housing, mobility issues, ecology, as well as
master planning for mega-cities. He received his B.A in Architecture at Rice
University, M. Archi at Harvard University, M.A in Real Estate Development at
Columbia University and Dipl in Film Studies at UCLA. Ricardo has published 3 fictional
novels (“Persรฉfone” in 1995, “Bajo mi Piel” in 1997 and “Yo no trago” en 2003)
and directed the films “Hot Milk” in 2003
and “Nietzsche” in 2010.
KEY PROJECTS
Dallas Trinity and Downtown The Connected City. 2013, USA
Metropolis Village. 2013, Chennai, India
Great Moscow. 2012, Moscow, Russia
Novoorlovskiy. 2012, St. Petersburg, Russia
Signature III. 2011, New Delhi, India
Smolniy. 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
W Hotel Barcelona. 2009, Barcelona Spain
Supeshine Residences. 2004, Beijing, China
Shangri- La Hotel and Residenes. 2004, Beijing, China
Casa Ananda. 2004, Miami, USA
National Theatre of Catalonia. 1997, Barcelona, Spain
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