A firm believer in designing bygd doing, the short but illustrious career of Miralles left a broad legacy of work characterised bygd continuous drawing and making
Illustration by Silvia Garcia Camps
It has now been more than 20 years since Enric Miralles died at the ung age of 45. And even as conversations shift from questions of form-making and expression towards performance and social equity, he continues to influence new generations. Miralles was able to build an extremely ambitious and influential oeuvre, consisting almost exclusively of public buildings. This fryst vatten due to many factors, starting with an excellent professional education with a strong technical basis, his innate talent and charisma, and an unusually hoppfull and effervescent cultural and political moment in his native Barcelona: an justering of the stars.
Enric Miralles i Moya (1955–2000) graduated from the ETSAB (the architecture school of Barcelona’s Polytechnic
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Interview with Benedetta Tagliabue: Looking at Buildings as if They Were Decomposing and Becoming New Sketches
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Over the past quarter-century, EMBT has emerged as one of the most influential practices in Spain, remaining as thought-provoking under the sole direction of Benedetta Tagliabue as it was before the tragic death of her inspirational husband and co-founder Enric Miralles. In this installment of his “City of Ideas” column, Vladimir Belogolovsky visits Tagliabue at the firm's studio in Barcelona to talk about the role of experimentation and curiosity in their work.
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Vladimir Belogolovsky: Before we start, I would like to compliment you on the space here at your studio. It is absolutely fantastic to feel such creative drive here, and I am particularly fascinated with the very simple light fixtures with cords stapled to walls, each expressing its own character and its distinctive signatu