El Castillo de Kafka explained

El Castillo de Kafka is a 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 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.^[2]

See also

• La Muralla Roja
• Walden 7
• Les Espaces d'Abraxas
• List of works by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

Notes

41.2504°N 1.798°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: ArchDaily . AD Classics: Kafka Castle / Ricardo Bofill . Andrew Kroll . 22 March 2011.
2. Book: Ricardo Bofill: Visions of Architecture . gestalten . Robert Klanten . Maria-Elisabeth Niebius . Valentina Marinai . Berlin . 2019 . 56.