He kept close involvement with the GATCPAC [ca] group of modernist architects, and was a longstanding friend of Antoni Bonet i Castellana[1]: 223 and Josep Lluís Sert as well as of Joan Miró.
[1]: 58 In a study of the early years of Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, author Pedro García Hernández wrote that "many architects who aspired to do something new or different insisted that Emilio Bofill's firm should be the one building their works, in order to secure collaboration and holistic understanding of the project.
[1]: 218 Among the projects he built, one that stands out is the house known as La Ricarda [ca] in El Prat de Llobregat, by Antoni Bonet i Castellana, between the airport's runways and the sea, now a museum.
Emilio Bofill was thus involved in the design and construction of all the early major projects of the Taller.
[11] After retiring from his building activity in the 1970s, Emilio Bofill dedicated himself to reform of the College of the Rosary (previously, Poor Orphans' College) in Sant Julià de Vilatorta near Vic, an inland town to the north of Barcelona where he owned land and a family house.