"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.
Description by Enric Miralles Foundation
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.
