Call for Papers: Histories of Postwar Architecture Special Issue "Bofill Abroad"
Histories of Postwar Architecture (HPA), a biannual open-access peer-reviewed Journal, has launched an open call for articles for its special issue on the international practice of Ricardo Bofill and his Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA).
In the early 1960s, Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill (1939-2022) designed his first works in Barcelona. These works represented a unique synthesis of local architectural tradition and the emerging challenge of various forms of urban utopia, which was unprecedented in Spain during this period. In 1963 he founded the “Taller de Arquitectura” (Architecture Workshop; RBTA), an unorthodox, multidisciplinary, international team, comprised of architects, engineers, mathematicians, sculptors, painters, sociologists, writers, philosophers, musicians and film-makers, whose practice soon expanded internationally.
Following Ricardo Bofill’s passing in 2022, the aim of issue 15 of Histories of Postwar Architecture (HPA) is to analyse the international trajectory of the Taller de Arquitectura from 1970 to the present day. Bofill’s work is cross-cutting, bold, and polemic, making him a controversial yet indispensable figure in the recent history of international architecture.
This issue will be guest-edited by Antonio Pizza, Marta García Carbonero, Marisa García Vergara and Julio Garnica as part of the research project RETRANSLATES01. Reflections, from Europe, on architecture in Spain: urban projects, public facilities, design and interventions in heritage (1976-2006), PID2022-138760NB-C21 funded by MCIN /AEI/10.13039/501100011033 DOI/ FEDER, EU.
Please, fill in the author’s profile with all the informations required as:
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Please submit the proposal in the form of MS Word (length between 20,000 and 25,000 characters with up to six images). The submitted paper must be anonymous. Please delete from the text and file’s properties all informations about name, administrator etc. Papers should clearly define the argument in relation to the available literature and indicate the sources on which they are based. All papers received will go through a process of double-blind peer review before publication.
