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Ricardo La Rotta Caballero is an architect in Bogotá, Colombia and the principal at the La Rotta Arquitectos firm. His work includes La Quintana Library, a library park named after Tomás Carrasquilla in Medellín, Colombia. Along with Juan Manuel López (architect) and Ramón Quevedo, Rotta was selected as an architect for an ecological redevelopment project north of Bogotá. In 2006, Rotta's work on the project with Quevedo and López on Edifício Compensar in Bogotá was selected as one of the 10 "projects of the year" by the publication Semana. Rotta was also involved in the project of the Plaza of Zipaquirá. Rotta won a design competition for a new faculty building at Javeriana University.
Education and career
Rotta studied architecture at the University of Javeriana in Bogotá. He worked with Rogelio Salmona as an urban designer and at the firm of Daniel Bermúdez and Cía. In 2002 he started his own firm, La Rotta Arquitectos (La Rotta Architects). He is also a professor of Urban Design at Universidad Javeriana and at the University of the Andes (Colombia) in Bogotá. His most prominent projects have included Centro Social Calle 94-Compensar, el parque-biblioteca Tomás Carrasquilla (the Tomás Carrasquilla Park and Library) and the Jorge Tadeo Lozano Art and Design faculty building at the University of Bogotá.