The exhibition "MIRALLES. To be continued ..." is part of the MIRALLES events promoted by the Enric Miralles Foundation with the support of the Barcelona City Council and the Generalitat de Catalunya, intending to pay tribute to the figure of the Catalan architect Enric Miralles.

The curators of the MIRALLES events are Benedetta Tagliabue and Joan Roig i Duran, with the collaboration of the architecture studio Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, l'Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura (ETSAB) and the Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC) .

The exhibition begins this 4th of april and can be visited free of charge until the 12th of december. It is located at the headquarters of the Enric Miralles Foundation, in Pasaje de la Paz, 10 bis of the city of Barcelona.
The exhibition "MIRALLES. To be continued ..." shows the work designed by the architecture studio Miralles Tagliabue EMBT during the last twenty years. Despite his untimely death, the studio has maintained its characteristic spirit of innovation and experimentation during Enric and Benedetta's period of joint management.

"MIRALLES. To be continued ..." shows the public projects that are very different from each other, such as the Spanish Pavilion at Expo Shanghai 2010, which represents the first example of the studio's line of experimentation with “woven architecture”; the Kálida Center of the Sant Pau Hospital, a unique project with an international impact perform in the heart of the city of Barcelona; the Paris Clichy-Montfermeil metro station where research continues to create “textile” buildings on facades and roofs, in this case emphasizing the use of color in a peripheral neighborhood with a complex economic and social situation.
 

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The exhibition  MIRALLES. To be continued... is part of the MIRALLES events, promoted by the Enric Miralles Foundation with the support of the Barcelona City Council and the Generalitat de Catalunya, to honor the figure of the Catalan architect Enric Miralles in his many facets as creator, and whose death was 20 years old in 2020.

The curators of the MIRALLES events are Benedetta Tagliabue and Joan Roig i Duran, with the collaboration of the architecture studio Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, l'Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura (ETSAB) and the Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC) .

The exhibition MIRALLES. To be continued... shows the work carried out by the architecture studio Miralles Tagliabue EMBT during the last twenty years. The same spirit of innovation and experimentation that already characterized the studio under the joint direction of Enric and Benedetta has been kept alive, and continues to this day, encountering new challenges and adventures every year, as when the architect was present.

The exhibition illustrates the work of the last 20 years in chronological order with an emphasis on the following projects and installations: Hafen City, public spaces in Hamburg; Nearly Ninety, scenery for the choreographer Merce Cunningham: Spanish Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai Expo; Weaving Architecture installation for the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale; Chinatrust Tower in Taiwan; Kálida Sant Pau Center in Barcelona; Church of San Giacomo in Ferrara; the Metro Clichy-Montfermeil stations in Paris and the Centro Direzionale in Naples, as well as the Zhang Daqian Museum and the Fudan University Campus in China.

"MIRALLES. To be continued..." shows the public projects that are very different from each other, such as the Spanish Pavilion at Expo Shanghai 2010, which represents the first example of the studio's line of experimentation with “woven architecture”; the Kálida Center of the Sant Pau Hospital, a unique project with an international impact carried out in the heart of the city of Barcelona; the Paris Clichy-Montfermeil metro station where research continues to create “textile” buildings on facades and roofs, in this case emphasizing the use of color in a peripheral neighborhood with a complex economic and social situation.

Also, the exhibition presents a large collective collage, created especially for the occasion by all the people of the Miralles Tagliabue EMBT studio, which offers a chronological vision of the great activity carried out by the team: contests, projects built, and under construction.

If the elements that define the works of Enric Miralles can be earth, concrete, and metal, Benedetta Tagliabue's architecture is more aerial, light, colorful, textile, with constant experimentation in the field of construction materials; two different ways of making and creating intertwined.

"MIRALLES. To be continued..." is shown in the main room of the Enric Miralles Foundation, representing the continuity between the past, present, and future of his legacy.

In the model room, there is an audiovisual exhibition on the Parliament of Edinburgh, a project that Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue were working on in 2000 when Enric passed away.

Unlike the presentation at the Saló del Tinell, where the project is explained from an artistic point of view, the Enric Miralles Foundation teaches the Parliament of Edinburgh from a political perspective. The vicissitudes that Benedetta Tagliabue together with the Miralles Tagliabue EMBT studio faced to complete the project are shown, and thus make it the most emblematic built work of the Catalan architect.

Through screenings of Enric's lectures, various documentary videos, interviews, photos, and sketches, different moments in the development of the project are shown from its construction to the opening ceremony.

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15/04 > 23/12/2021.
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Enric Miralles Foundation. Passatge de la Pau, 10 bis Barcelona, Spain.
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Commissioners of the «MIRALLES» events.- Benedetta Tagliabue, Joan Roig i Duran. Curators of the exhibition and the exhibition design.- Beatriz Mínguez de Molina, Victoria Garriga, Benedetta Tagliabue. Project director.- Beatriz Mínguez de Molina.
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Organization.- Enric Miralles Foundation. Executive production.- Benedetta Tagliabue (director). Production management.- Marta Pérez-Porro. General coordination.- Anna Vilà, Roberta Landino.
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Collaborators.- Joelle Nader, Eia Sánchez, Nuria Díaz, Ilia Celiento, Tania Grado, Julia Ciurana, Maria Antonia Franco, Clara Foglia. Concept of adaptation of the Weaving Architecture element.- Nazaret Bust. Exhibition Element.- Original design by Enric Miralles adapted by Salvador Gilabert. Design of the exhibition graphics.- Marta Llinàs (Estudio Cañón). Correction and translation (Catalan and Spanish).- Gloria Bohigas. Correction and translation (English).- Simon Davis, Maite Lorés. Audiovisual.- Jordi Azategui. Assembly of the Weaving Architecture element.- Iago Pérez. Exhibition Element Production.- Carpinteria Aram. Collages Production.- Miralles Tagliabue EMBT Studio. Video and installation technician.- Eloi Costilludo and Mario García (VideoKlub). Lighting Assembly.- Alonso Herrera Plumbing.
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Miralles Tagliabue EMBT Study. Enrique Lara (Garci Barca SL). Gabriele Rotelli (Miralles Tagliabue EMBT architecture studio). Nisan Al Jazairi. Enric Miralles Foundation.
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Shen Zhonghai, Paolo Fassoli, Thomas Hampel, Alex Gaultier, Anna Finke, Tai Chung, Lluc Miralles.
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Enric Miralles Moya (Barcelona 1955 - Sant Feliu de Codines 2000) studied at the Barcelona School of Architecture, ETSAB, graduating in 1978. From 1973 to 1983 he collaborated with Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón, and in 1984 he founded the Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós studio, from this stage one of his most poetic works stands out, such as the Igualada Cemetery. In 1993 he began the EMBT study with his wife and partner Benedetta Tagliabue.

Considered an architect of great inventiveness, he defined himself as the enfant terrible of Spanish architecture. He was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Columbia University for the 1980-81 academic year. Two years later, he presented his doctoral thesis "Things seen to the left and the right, (without glasses)."

Since 1985 he was professor at ETSAB (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona), holding the Chair of Architecture since 1996. In 1990 he began as Director and Professor of the Master Class at Städelschule of Frankfurt and beginning in 1992 served as the "Kenzo Tange Chair” professor at the GSD of Harvard University. Moreover, he was visiting professor and lecturer at several universities in the United States (Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, Yale), Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, and a member of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.

As an architect of many works, his projects include, the Igualada Cemetery in Spain (1995) and the rehabilitation of Utrecht City Hall in Holland (2000). He was also active as an interior designer, with projects including The Hipostila shelving system(1989) in collaboration with Lluis Clotet and Oscar Tusquets Blanca for Bd Ediciones de Diseño, Lungomare Bench for Escofet,(2000), Vacante bench for Sellex (1991), and many other furnishing designs which were not put in production.

He has received numerous awards, including the National Prize of Spanish Architecture 1995, FAD Prize (Fomento Artes Decorativas) 1985 and 2000, The European ITALSTAD (Italy) 1991. Leone d’Oro Prize at the Biennale di Venezia 1996. His work has been published internationally in the most distinguished reviews, El Croquis N.100 101, Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue 1996-2000. GG. Miralles Tagliabue Time Architecture 1999. Electa, Documenti di Architettutra. Benedetta Tagliabue. Enric Miralles: Opere e Progetti. 1996. In 1999 he was named an Honorary member of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. In 2002 he received posthumously the Gold Medal from the Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya.

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Beatriz Mínguez De Molina (Barcelona, 1979) is an architect and visual artist. She was trained at the AA Architectural Association, Riba. She also has a degree in Art History from the University of Barcelona. She has collaborated with OMA / Rem Koolhaas, Robert Wilson and regularly collaborates with Benedetta Tagliabue / EMBT. She specializes in ephemeral architecture and scenery. She has recently coordinated the Enric Miralles Foundation.
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Victoria Garriga was born in Barcelona, 1969. She is an Architect from the ETSA Barcelona, Polytechnic University of Catalonia UPC, 1995. Victoria has collaborated in the office of Enric Miralles.

Victoria Garriga has won several awards and competitions for national and international projects such as “The revitalization of the Adhamiya district of Baghdad”, “The National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul”, Urban Rehabilitation of the Erbil Citadel in Kurdistan.

In 2012 she founded AV62Development & Consulting, a professional services association designed to provide urban planning and management in developing countries.

She has been professor and visiting professor at different schools of architecture and design in Spain and abroad.
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Benedetta Tagliabue was born in Milan (June 24, 1963) and graduated from the University of Venice in 1989. In 1991 she joined Enric Miralles’ studio eventually becoming a partner. Her work with Miralles, whom she married, includes several high-profile buildings and projects in Barcelona: Parque Diagonal Mar (1997-2002), Head Office Gas Natural (1999-2006) and the Market and Quarter Santa Caterina (1996-2005), as well as projects across Europe, including the School of Music in Hamburg (1997-2000) and the City Hall in Utrecht (1996-2000).

In 1998 the partnership won the competition to design the new Scottish Parliament building. Despite Miralles’ premature death in 2000, Tagliabue took leadership of the team as joint Project Director and the Parliament was completed in 2004, winning several awards.

She won the competition for the new design of Hafencity Harbor in Hamburg, Germany, a subway train station in Naples, and the Spanish Pavilion for Expo Shanghai 2010 among others.

Today under the direction of Benedetta Tagliabue the Miralles-Tagliabue-EMBT studio works with architectural projects, open spaces, urbanism, rehabilitation and exhibitions, trying to conserve the spirit of the Spanish and Italian artisan architectural studio tradition which espouses collaboration rather than specialization.

Their architectural philosophy is dedicating special attention to context.

Benedetta has written for several architectural magazines and has taught at, amongst other places, the University of Architecture ETSAB in Barcelona. She has lectured at many international architectural Forums as, for example, the RIBA, the Architectural Association and Bartlett School in, London, the Berlage Institut in Amsterdam, and in the USA, China and South America.

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Published on: April 21, 2021
Cite: ""MIRALLES. To be continued...". Tribute to Miralles " METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/miralles-be-continued-tribute-miralles> ISSN 1139-6415
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