Antigone: La Place du Nombre d'Or, Montpellier, France, Interior-court elevation
Ricardo Bofill
Spanish, born 1939
c. 1978-84
An ink-on-vellum elevation of Ricardo Bofill’s Antigone interior court, showing how the architect translated classical orders into a monumental, repetitive façade to organize a new civic-residential space.
The panorama reads like a measured procession—rhythmic tall windows and pilasters beneath a heavy entablature, inked shadows giving depth and a crown of stylized trees on the roof that turns the drawn façade into something sculptural.
The drawing captures a key moment in late‑20th‑century architecture when Bofill revived and reinterpreted classical language at urban scale, offering a theatrical, postmodern alternative to modernist austerity and influencing debates about historicism and citymaking.
Medium
Ink on vellum
Dimensions
15 3/8 x 70 1/8" (39.1 x 178.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Accession
390.1985
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