Architect, Spain Ricardo Bofill is one of Europe’s most prolific and provocative exponents of Postmodernism in architecture. In 1975 French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing described Bofill as the “world’s greatest architect” for his award-winning design for Les Halles in Paris. In the following decade, a series of international exhibitions and monographs confirmed his position at the forefront of the modern classical revival. However, despite being celebrated for the manner in which he has rejuvenated the classical and baroque traditions in architecture, it is also an appreciation of geometry and the interrelation among social, spatial, and technical systems that define his work. Bofill was born in Barcelona in 1939, and between 1955 and 1960 he studied at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Barcelona and the Université de Genève in Switzerland. In 1960 he founded the multidisciplinary team Taller de Arquitectura (Architecture Workshop), and since that time he has worked...