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Benedetta Tagliabue | |
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Born | Benedetta Tagliabue 23 June 1963 Milan, Italy |
Nationality | Italian |
Alma mater | Università Iuav di Venezia |
Occupation | Architect |
Partner(s) | Enric Miralles (1992; died 2000) |
Practice | EMBT Architects |
Website | mirallestagliabue.com/benedetta/ |
Benedetta Tagliabue (born 23 June 1963)[ citation needed ] is an Italian architect based in Barcelona. Along with Spanish architect Enric Miralles, the pair co-founded EMBT Architects, an international studio, where she is currently the principal and director. Several prominent projects of the firm include the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh and the Gas Natural Building in Barcelona. Tagliabue is also the president of the Enric Miralles Foundation (Fundació Eric Miralles), an architectural research center in Miralles's honor. [1] [2]
Tagliabue was born in Milan, Lombardy, to a family originally from Monza. [3] During her youth, Tagliabue spent her time between Italy and Spain. [4] Tagliabue started her architectural studies at the Università Iuav di Venezia in 1981. In 1988, she began to collaborate professionally with the architectural firms Transbuilding and Agrest-Gandelsonas in New York City. [5] Tagliabue eventually graduated from the Università Iuav di Venezia in 1989. [2] [6]
In 1991, Tagliabue won first prize with her thesis in the "Biennal Joves de Barcelona". [5] In the following year, before the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, she started a relationship with Enric Miralles (1955–2000).
In 1994, Tagliabue and Miralles formed the Barcelona-based architecture firm Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, later renamed Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT. [1] In 1995, the firm won the National Architecture Award of Spain for a boarding school in Morella. [5] Miralles' most important projects, the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh and the multi-storied Gas Natural building in Barcelona, were finished by Tagliabue after his death in 2000, along with the remodelling of Barcelona's Santa Caterina market. [5] [7]
Tagliabue worked on the Spanish Pavilion completed for the 2010 Shanghai Expo. [5]
In 2022, Tagliabue's home featured in Apple TV's Home in season 2, where she detailed the construction and renovation of her and her late husband's Barcelona gothic villa. [8]
In 2004, Tagliabue received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Napier University [7] and she is a member of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. Tagliabue teaches at the University of Architecture ETSAB (Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona) in Barcelona and lectures regularly in architectural forums. [7]
Benedetta has been a juror in the Pritzker Architecture Prize, [9] Princesa de Asturias de las Artes, Loewe Craft Prize, RIBA Jencks Awards, and the 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize. [10]
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