He abhors minimalism.[1] He supports the "demuseumification of museums."[1]
He runs a small publishing house, Al Dante, which publishes photography, essays on architecture, and poetry, including a French translation of John Ashbery.[1]
In February 2015, the French Court of Auditors (“la Cour des comptes”) pointed out "a laborious gestation" with a final cost of €350 million (studies, construction...) instead of €160 million originally planned for the Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la MéditerranéeinMarseilles.[6][7]
On Wednesday, October 17, 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.[8] He had turned a dovecote from the seventies into a screening room.[9]
On 23 November 2018, the Criminal Court of Toulon convicted him to a four months suspended sentence and a fine of €150,000.[10]
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.[11]
The contractor was sentenced to a fine of 120 000 Euros and his villa has been seized.[12]
Blitzkrieg : De la culture comme arme fatale (with Salvatore Lombardo, Transbordeurs, 2005).
HQE (Le Gac Press, 2013).
L'architecture est un sport de combat (with David d'Equainville, Editions Textuel, 2013, 112 pages).[13]
A. Pergoli Campanelli, Point ultime - Rudy RICCIOTTI les interviews al vitriol dun sudiste[1] Paris, Sens & Tonka, 1998, pp. 115–125, ISBN2-910170-62-4
^French court of audit, "Cour des comptes", Annual Public Report 2015 (February 2015). "Le MuCEM : une gestation laborieuse, un avenir incertain" [MuCEM: a laborious gestation, an uncertain future] (PDF). ccomptes.fr (in French).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
