Rudy Ricciotti

Rudy Ricciotti (born 22 August 1952) is a French architect and publisher.

Biography

Early life He was born in Kouba district of Algiers in Algeria of Italian origin on 22 August 1952 and moved to France at the age of three. He studied engineering in Switzerland and he graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille in 1980. In 2015, he designed the 'Man and the Sea' museum on the Antoine 1er dock in Monaco.

He abhors minimalism.

His villa in Cassis (France) On Wednesday, 17 October 2018, Rudy Ricciotti has been heard at the Criminal Court of Toulon for unauthorized work on his property between 2010 and 2012, when he hired workers off the books. His villa is located in the “Parc national des Calanques”, in Cassis, on a natural area classified. He had turned a dovecote from the seventies into a screening room.

On 23 November 2018, the Criminal Court of Toulon convicted him to a four months suspended sentence and a fine of €150,000.

However and luckily for him, this sentence will not be registered into his criminal record. This allows him to still fulfill orders and to participate to public architectural competitions.

The contractor was sentenced to a fine of 120 000 Euros and his villa has been seized.