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= BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE =

Benedetta Tagliabue is an Italian architect, and she lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. Benedetta Tagliabue was born in Milan, Italy. She graduated from the Istituto Universitaria di Architettura di Venezia in 1989. She is internationally renowned architect founder with Enric Miralles (1955-2000) of the international studio EMBT Architects, with offices in Barcelona (HQ), Shanghai, and Paris. She is renowned for her attentiveness to context, yet experimental, approach to forms and materials in her creations. Her Barcelona-based company EMBT has become one of the most renowned Spanish practices of the twenty-first century as a result of her varied and intricate works.

== Boigraphy == In 1963, She born in Milan and starts her architectural study in University of Venice in 1981. Seven years later (1988), she began to collaborate professionally with Architectural Firm Transbuilding and Gandelsonas-Agrest in New York.

In 1989, she graduated in Venice, and won first prize with her thesis in the "Biennal Joves de Barcelona" after two years. Then she moved to a flat in Plaça Reial, in Barcelona. ITALSTAD prize for Europe.

In 1995, she won the First National Architectural Price, Spain, for the Boarding School in Morella. In the same year, Caterina Miralles Tagliabue was born.

In 2000, after her husband died, she took over the Santa Caterina market project and completed it.

In recent years, the firm's most striking work has perhaps been the Spanish Pavilion completed for the 2010 Shanghai Expo, a design which epitomizes their philosophy of continuing curiosity and material experimentation.

Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT
Enric Miralles (1955-2000) and Benedetta Tagliabue collaborated to form the renowned architecture firm Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT in Barcelona in 1994. Coincidentally, their relationship started right before the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, which marked the apex of the city's development and architectural style. This studio has offices in Barcelona (HQ), Shanghai, and Paris.

The studio is one of the most renowned Spanish architectural firms in the world. Its primary philosophy is carefully responding to each project’s context and site conditions. It employs sensitive integration practices and creates a dialogue between design and its surroundings. Mainly undertaking public projects, the office emphasizes the urban, cultural and material values of its design, resulting in unorthodox, subtle organic forms that echo the context’s history, landscape and material presence.

Today, under the direction of Benedetta Tagliabue, the Miralles-Tagliabue-EMBT studio works on architectural projects, open spaces, urbanization, restoration and exhibitions, trying to preserve the spirit of the tradition of Spanish and Italian artisan architectural studios, whose aim is not specialization. Their architectural philosophy pays particular attention to the environment.

Selected Works

 * 1) The Scottish Parliament By Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 1999
 * 2) Palafolls Public Library By Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, Palafolls, Spain, 2007
 * 3) Plaza Ricard Viñes By Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, Lleida, Spain, 2010
 * 4) Utrecht Town Hall Rehabilitation By Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2000
 * 5) Vigo University Campus By Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, Vigo, Spain, 2003
 * 6) Diagonal Mar Park By Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, Barcelona, Spain, 2002
 * 7) Santa Caterina Market By Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, Barcelona, Spain, 2005
 * 8) Gas Natural Fenosa Office Building, 2007
 * 9) Spanish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010 (RIBA Best International Building 2011 Award.)
 * 10) CURRENT PROJECTS: Fudan University Business School in Shanghai, China, 2011
 * 11) Office towers in Taichung, Taiwan 2019
 * 12) Hafen City public spaces in Hamburg, Germany, 2002
 * 13) CURRENT PROJECTS: Clichy-Montfermeil metro station in Paris, France, 2014
 * 14) The Church and Parish Complex San Giacomo Apóstolo in Ferrara, awarded the Dedalo Minosse International Prize 2022.

Awards
Principal and director of EMBT Architects

President of Fundació Enric Miralles

National Architectural Prize of Catalonia 2002

Honorary doctorate from Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, 2004

RIBA Stirling Prize 2005

Spanish National Architectural Prize 2006

RIBA Best International Building Award 2011

RIBA Jencks Award 2013

RIBA & RIAS Honorary Member

Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury Member, since 2014

Princesa de Asturias de las Artes Jury Member 2011–2022

Sant Jordi Cross from the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2019

The Leadership Award at Piranesi Prix de Rome 2020

The Leadership Award at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2021

Member of Pontificia Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon Rome 2022

Dedalo Minosse International Prize 2022.

Prix Le Soufaché l’Académie d’Architecture Paris 2022

Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2023

Career
Benedetta is involved in teaching at various international schools and universities. She is a visiting professor at Harvard University, Columbia University, and ETSAB in Barcelona. She regularly lectures at renowned architecture forums and universities. In 2004, she received an honorary doctorate from Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland.

Benedetta serves as a juror in prestigious international awards such as the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Princesa de Asturias de las Artes, Loewe Craft Prize, RIBA Jencks Awards, and RIBA Stirling Prize.