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Enric Miralles

The Scottish Parliament Building committee room ceiling.
Born 1955
Barcelona
Died July 3, 2000(2000-07-03) (aged 44-45)
Sant Feliu de Codines, Barcelona
Nationality Spain
Awards Stirling Prize (2005)
Madrid City Prize (1993)
National Prize of Spanish Architecture (1995)
Golden Lion (1996)
Work
Buildings Scottish Parliament Building
Igualada Cemetery
Igualada Cemetery
Santa Caterina Market
Exterior view of the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh
Debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament

Enric Miralles Moya (1955 – July 3, 2000) was a Spanish Catalan architect. He graduated from the School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 1978. After establishing his reputation with a number of collaborations with his first wife Carme Pinós, the couple separated in 1991. He later married fellow architect Benedetta Tagliabue, and the two practiced together as EMBT Architects. Miralles' largest work, the new Scottish Parliament Building, was unfinished at the time of his death.

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Life

In 1978, he completed his examinations at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura (ETSAB) in Barcelona. From 1973 to 1978 he worked in the architect's office of Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón and whilst there — among other things — he was involved in the construction of the Plaça dels Països Catalans, the forecourt for the Estació de Sants. In 1984 after several architectural competition wins, he formed his own office in Barcelona with his first wife Carme Pinós, which they led together until 1991. Within the rising Spanish architecture scene of the late 1980s following the death of Francisco Franco, their unusual buildings attracted international attention. As a result, they received numerous commissions from Spain and overseas. After their separation, Miralles and Pinós continued to work in separate offices. In 1993 Enric Miralles formed a new practice with his second wife, the Italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue, under the name "EMBT Architects". She resumed the practice under his name after his death. The most important projects; the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh and the multistoried building for the Spanish gas company Gas Natural in Barcelona, were only finished after his death . Enric Miralles died at the age of 45 as the result of a brain tumor.

Architecture

The independent architectural language of Enric Miralles can be difficult to classify in terms of contemporary architecture. It is influenced by Spanish architects, such as Alejandro de la Sota, José Antonio Coderch and Josep Maria Jujol, and also from international greats such as Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn and Alvar Aalto and the Russian Constructivist movement of the early 20th century. The freely formed buildings utilising massive building materials and steel, develop from their relationship with the environment and connect themselves to it. The form is constructed using often unusual materials which are generally left with natural surfaces. Form and material interpret the place, traditions and history in a personal and poetic art, as his critics attest. From the starting point of the townscape or landscape he would design a building in its totality, down to the details of the furnishing and the exterior installations. Therefore the execution of the details was just as important to the communication of meaning as the main form. Both were developed over a large number of designs and with numerous models as the main tool of the design process.

Academia

Enric Miralles was an active teacher at numerous universities. In 1985, he became a professor at the ETSAB in Barcelona. During 1990 he took over the conceptional design chair at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. In 1993, he received an invitation from Harvard University to occupy the Kenzo Tange chair. He taught as a guest lecturer at Columbia University in New York, Princeton University in New Jersey, the Architectural Association in London, the Berlage Instituut in Rotterdam, the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow and the Universities of Buenos Aires and Mexico City.

Work

Buildings

In Partnership with Carme Pinós

In Partnership with Benedetta Tagliabue

Projects

In Partnership with Carme Pinós

In Partnership with Benedetta Tagliabue

Furniture

Awards

Bibliography

External links

v · d · eStirling Prize laureates

Stephen Hodder (1996) · Michael Wilford (1997) · Foster and Partners (1998) · Future Systems (1999) · Alsop/Störmer (2000) · Wilkinson Eyre (2001) · Wilkinson Eyre/Gifford (2002) · Herzog & de Meuron (2003) · Foster and Partners (2004) · EMBT/RMJM (2005) · Richard Rogers (2006) · David Chipperfield Architects (2007) · Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (2008) · Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partner (2009) · Zaha Hadid (2010)
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