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Directing · b. 1965 · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Ricardo Emilio Bofill (born 1965 in Barcelona), full Spanish name Ricardo Emilio Bofill Maggiora Vergano, also known as Ricardo Bofill Jr., is a Spanish architect, author and director from Catalonia. Since the end of January 2022, he has been co-director of the architecture and design firm Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA), together with his half-brother Pablo Bofill.
Ricardo Emilio Bofill is the son of architect Ricardo Bofill, who founded RBTA in 1963, and Italian actress Serena Vergano. He went to school at St. Peter's School and then at Escola Ausiàs March, both in Barcelona. He studied architecture at the Rice University School of Architecture in Houston, then at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and real estate development at Columbia University. In September 1993, he married socialite Chabeli Iglesias; they separated in early 1995. From 1995 to early 2004 he was in a relationship with Mexican singer Paulina Rubio.
He joined the RBTA in the late 1990s and has been involved in the design of projects in China, India and Russia.
