Benedetta Tagliabue

Benedetta Tagliabue (Born in 1963 with Milan, Italy) is an Italian Architecte, exerting with Barcelona.

It founds with Enric Miralles and continuous to hold their agency EMBT.

Formation

In 1980, Tagliabue studied one year with the Columbia University of New York. From 1981, she studies architecture with Venice and in common obtains her diploma in 1989 with a work with Diane Lewis of the Cooper Union on Central Park.

Professional life

It takes part in the project of agency Transbuilding and Gandelsonas-Agrest in New York in 1988, but moves in Barcelona where it works at Espinet-Ubach until 1990. It gains thereafter 2 prestigious prices of architecture. In 1993, it opens with her husband Enric Miralles the office EMBT, passage of Pau, with Barcelona. In 1998, they gain the contest for the Scottish Parlement.

In 1995, the office gains the Stirling Prize, the Grand Prix of Architecture, for the Scottish Parliament.

In 2001, it receives the price Delta ADI FAD for the bench Lungomare d' Escofet.

Private life

His/her daughter Caterina Miralles Tagliabue is born in 1995.

Domenec Miralles Tagliabue is born in 1997.

July 3rd, 2000, Enric Miralles dies brutally of a brain tumor. Tagliabue would have said on this subject that the stress inherent in the project of the Parliament would have contributed to died of Miralles by masking the symptoms of its disease, if that is not the cause.

Achievements (Selected)

  • 1995 Reconversion from house in Barcelona
  • 1996 to 2000 6 houses, Amsterdam, Holland
  • 1997 to 2000 Park Diagonal Mar , Barcelona
  • 1997 to 2000 Agrandissemnt of the town hall of Utrecht, Holland
  • 1997 to 2001 Library with Palafolls, Barcelona
  • 1997 to 2001 Rebuilding of the market Santa Catalina , Barcelona
  • 1998 to 2000 Enlarging of the music school of Hamburg
  • 1998 to 2002 Scottish Parliament with Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 1999 Maretas Museum, Lanzarote
  • 1999 with 2001 Park Santa Rosa , Calf del Vallés, Barcelona
  • 1999 to 2006 Torre Pond Nostrum , Seat of Gas Natural , Barcelona
  • 2002 Public space Western Hafencity Hamburg
  • 2000 to 2005 Building of the faculty of architecture of Venice, Italy

Price

  • 1991 Prices for its diploma " Biennial Joves de Barcelona".
  • 1991 ITALSTAD Europe.
  • 1995 First National Price of Architecture, Spain, for the Boarding school of Morella.
  • 1996 Gold Lion to the Biennale de Venise.

Publications

  • 1995 Mixed Talks, Academy Editions.
  • 1996 Monograph by KA Korean Architects. Edited Enric Miralles: operate E Progetti, published by Electa

References

  • MEAMnet biography

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