Benedetta Tagliabue

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Benedetta Tagliabue
Born
Benedetta Tagliabue

(1963-06-23) 23 June 1963 (age 61)
Milan, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma mater Università Iuav di Venezia
OccupationArchitect
Partner(s) Enric Miralles
(1992; died 2000)
PracticeEMBT 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]

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Early life and education

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]

Career

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).

EMBT

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]

View of the Scottish Parliament Building from John Reid Close Scotparlmph03.JPG
View of the Scottish Parliament Building from John Reid Close

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]

Academic career

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]

Awards judge

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]

Selected work

Scottish Parliament Building Scottish Parliament - 49188771378.jpg
Scottish Parliament Building
Naples Metro Centro Direzionale station Stazione Centro Direzionale.jpeg
Naples Metro Centro Direzionale station
Torre Mare Nostrum, new headquarters of Gas Natural, Barcelona Sede del Grupo Gas Natural.jpg
Torre Mare Nostrum, new headquarters of Gas Natural, Barcelona

Awards

Publications

References

  1. 1 2 "Homepage - Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT". 12 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Spotlight: Benedetta Tagliabue". ArchDaily. 24 June 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  3. "Benedetta Tagliabue's Milan". www.domusweb.it. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  4. "Interview with Benedetta Tagliabue: Looking at Buildings as if They Were Decomposing and Becoming New Sketches". ArchDaily. 10 November 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Meam Net : : : Programme". 11 March 2007. Archived from the original on 11 March 2007. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  6. "Università Iuav di Venezia".
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Miralles Tagliabue EMBT bio. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  8. "Watch Home - Apple TV+". Apple TV. 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  9. "Benedetta Tagliabue Appointed as Newest Pritzker Prize Jury Member". ArchDaily. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  10. "RIBA's Stirling Prize 2024 shortlist unveiled". Dezeen. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  11. Benedetta Tagliabue To Receive 2013 Riba Jencks Award Retrieved 8 March 2015
  12. "Benedetta Tagliabue : "Outside space is also home"". constructing-sustainable-future.com. Retrieved 10 August 2023.