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El Castillo de Kafka

Coordinates: 41°15′01″N 1°47′53″E / 41.25035°N 1.79803°E / 41.25035; 1.79803
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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]

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  1. ^ Andrew Kroll (22 March 2011). "AD Classics: Kafka Castle / Ricardo Bofill". ArchDaily.
  2. ^ Robert Klanten; Maria-Elisabeth Niebius; Valentina Marinai, eds. (2019). Ricardo Bofill: Visions of Architecture. Berlin: gestalten. p. 56.

41°15′01″N 1°47′53″E / 41.25035°N 1.79803°E / 41.25035; 1.79803