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| Miralles Tagliabue EMBT | |
|---|---|
| Name | Miralles Tagliabue EMBT |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Founders | Enric Miralles; Benedetta Tagliabue |
| Headquarters | Barcelona |
| Significant projects | Scottish Parliament Building; Santa Caterina Market; Scottish Parliament Garden Lobby |
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT is an architecture firm established in Barcelona known for projects combining contextual sensitivity with inventive forms. The practice has engaged with clients across Europe and Asia, producing civic, cultural, and urban works that intersect with landscape, art, and infrastructure.
The office was founded in 1993 by Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue following Miralles's earlier work at EMBT (Enric Miralles), continuing an oeuvre that built on precedents by Santiago Calatrava, Rafael Moneo, Álvaro Siza, Ricardo Bofill, and Dominique Perrault. Early commissions included projects in Barcelona and Spain alongside competitions for commissions in France, Italy, United Kingdom, and Portugal, reflecting influences from the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Royal Institute of British Architects competitions, and the pedagogy of Architectural Association School of Architecture and ETSAB. After the death of Enric Miralles in 2000, the firm continued under Tagliabue's leadership, maintaining ties to networks including Fundació Joan Miró, Fundació Caixa Catalunya, European Cultural Foundation, and municipal authorities in Edinburgh, Bilbao, and Lisbon.
Key figures in the practice include co-founder Benedetta Tagliabue, whose leadership follows collaborations with Miralles and ties to academic posts at institutions such as Harvard Graduate School of Design, Royal College of Art, IED, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Senior partners and project leads have connections to practitioners and theorists like Carlo Scarpa, Zaha Hadid, Peter Zumthor, and Rem Koolhaas through joint lecturing, juries, and exchanges with organizations including ICOMOS, UNESCO, European Union, and civic bodies in Catalonia and Scotland. The office also includes collaborators from studios associated with OMA, Herzog & de Meuron, Foster + Partners, and research links to ETH Zurich and TU Delft.
Signature projects span public and cultural buildings such as the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh, the renovation of Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona, the Diòcesi de Girona works, and masterplans in Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Madrid, and Seville. International commissions include urban proposals and pavilions for events like the Expo 2005, collaborations on parks with the City of Barcelona, and cultural centers linked to institutions such as Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Projects have engaged with transportation hubs in Milan, waterfront regeneration in Bilbao near the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and campus buildings for universities including Universitat Pompeu Fabra and University of Edinburgh.
The firm's approach emphasizes site-specific design, material experimentation, and tectonic complexity, drawing lineage from Catalan Modernisme and dialogues with figures like Antoni Gaudí, Luis Domènech i Montaner, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, and contemporary counterparts such as Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando. Their work synthesizes strategies from landscape projects in Parc de la Ciutadella, urban morphology studies in Plaça de Catalunya, and craft traditions linked to workshops in Vic and Olot, while responding to regulatory frameworks from municipalities like Barcelona City Council and funding structures tied to the European Regional Development Fund. Formal tactics often reference precedents by Alvaro Siza Vieira and Carlo Scarpa through layered circulation, light modulation, and structural expression.
The practice and its projects have received distinctions from bodies such as the Royal Institute of British Architects Awards, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, the FAD Awards, the Priztker Architecture Prize-adjacent discourse, and civic honors from Barcelona Provincial Council and the Scottish Government. Individual recognition includes appointments and prizes from institutions like The Architectural Review, AIA, Domus, El Croquis, and festival invitations to the Venice Architecture Biennale.
EMBT has partnered with municipal authorities in Barcelona and Edinburgh, cultural institutions such as Fundació Antoni Tàpies and MACBA, engineering firms including Arup and Foster + Partners-affiliated consultants, and contractors active in Spain, United Kingdom, China, and Japan. Academic collaborations connect the studio to research groups at Harvard GSD, ETH Zurich, TU Delft, and networks like CIB and UIA for urban and environmental research.
Their work has been documented in journals and books from El Croquis, Domus, Architectural Review, Casabella, and monographs published by Phaidon, Taschen, and Actar. Exhibitions of projects and models have appeared at the Venice Biennale, Fundació Joan Miró, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Victoria and Albert Museum, and retrospective shows organized by MACBA and the RIBA.
Category:Architecture firms of Spain