New Delhi, Dec. 7 -- Ricardo E Bofill, the principal architect of the Spanish architecture firm Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA), has been designing affordable housing under the Indian government's flagship Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) programme, besides other infra projects in the country for last five years. Bofill discusses with SH how he is driving the design narrative around sustainability through his upcoming Brigade El Dorado Township in Bengaluru.
By Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee
What was the brief from the client for designing the project? The client called in the middle of the summer to let me know he had a 50 acre 'squarish' site and if I was interested in designing a PMAY township. I took a plane the next day and land...