El Castillo de Kafka is an iconic complex of 90 apartments in Sant Pere de Ribes, near Sitges in Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura and completed in 1968.[1] It has been ranked among "Ricardo Bofill's 10 Most Iconic Works".[2]

It was inspired by the Utopian practice of Archigram and its "plug-in city" concept of modular megastructures. Its name is an explicit reference to The Castle, the 1926 novel by Franz Kafka.[3]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Andrew Kroll (22 March 2011). "AD Classics: Kafka Castle / Ricardo Bofill". ArchDaily.
  2. ↑ Laura Humphries (20 October 2016). "Ricardo Bofill's 10 Most Iconic Works". Culture Trip.
  3. ↑ Robert Klanten; Maria-Elisabeth Niebius; Valentina Marinai, eds. (2019). Ricardo Bofill: Visions of Architecture. Berlin: gestalten. p. 56.

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