Enric Miralles

Enric Miralles

Infobox Architect



caption = The Scottish Parliament Building committee room ceiling.
name = Enric Miralles
nationality = Spain
birth_date = 1955
birth_place = Barcelona
death_date = death date|2000|7|3|mf=y
death_place = Sant Feliu de Codines, Barcelona
practice_name = Piñon-Viaplana Miralles Y Pinós
significant_buildings = Scottish Parliament Building Igualada Cemetery
significant_projects =
significant_design =
awards = Stirling Prize (2005) Madrid City Prize (1993) National Prize of Spanish Architecture (1995) Golden Lion (1996)

Enric Miralles Moya (1955 – July 3 2000) was a 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.

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 "Estación 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
* 1984 to 1986 "La Llauna" School, Badalona, Barcelona (province)
* 1985 Canopy for the "Plaça Major", Parets del Vallès
* 1985 to 1994 Igualada Cemetery, Igualada, Barcelona (province). 41º35'31"N 1º38'14"E
* 1986 to 1992 Hostalets de Balenyà Civic Centre, Barcelona
* 1986 to 1993 Boarding school in Morella, Castelló (province)
* 1987 to 1993 "La Mina" Civic Centre, Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona
* 1988 to 1992 House, Bellaterra, Barcelona
* 1989/91 Olympic archery range for the 1992 Summer Olympics, Vall d'Hebrón, Barcelona. 41º25'31.53"N 02º08'41.51"E
* 1988 to 1992 Sportcentre in Huesca, Huesca (province)
* 1990/91 Centre for rhythmic gymnastics, Alicante, Alicante (province)
* 1990 to 1992 Pergola for the "Passeig Nova Icària", Olympic village, Barcelona

In Partnership with Benedetta Tagliabue
* 1995 House conversion in Barcelona
* 1996 to 2000 Six houses, Amsterdam, Netherlands
* 1997 to 2000 Park "Diagonal Mar", Barcelona
* 1997 to 2000 Utrecht town hall extension, Netherlands
* 1997 to 2001 Library in Palafolls, Barcelona
* 1997 to 2001 Market hall conversion, "Santa Caterina", Barcelona
* 1998 to 2000 Extension of the national youth school of music Hamburg
* 1998 to 2002 Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh, Scotland. 55º57'7"N 03º10'29"W

* 1999 Maretas Museum, Lanzarote
* 1999 to 2001 Park "Santa Rosa", Mollet del Vallés, Barcelona (province)
* 1999 to 2006 "Torre Mare Nostrum", Head office of "Gas Natural", Barcelona
* 2002 Public space design Western Hafencity Hamburg
* 2000 to 2005 New building of the architecture faculty, Venice, Italy

Projects

In Partnership with Carme Pinós
* 1985/86 Bridge in Lleida, Lleida (province)
* 1987 "El Vapor Vell" house, Barcelona
* 1988 Street canopies for the Expo 1992, Seville
* 1988 House in Girona
* 1989 to 1992 Promenade in Reus, Tarragona

In Partnership with Benedetta Tagliabue
* 1993 "Old Port" Redevelopment competition, Bremerhaven, Germany
* 1995 Chemnitz Stadium
* 1995 Dresden Stadium
* 1995 Laboratory building for the University of Dresden
* 1995 Tram stop in Frankfurt am Main
* 1996 Japanese National Library, Tokyo, Japan
* 1996 Auditorium for the University of Lübeck
* 1997 Pier in Thessaloniki, Greece
* 1998 "San Michele" Cemetery extension competition, Venice, Italy
* 1999 Law courts competition in Salerno, Italy
* 1999 University campus Vigo, Pontevedra (province)
* 2000 "Wolfsburg Science Center " competition
* 2001 Competition for the head office of the "California Department of Transportation", Los Angeles, U.S.
* 2007 Enric Miralles Public Library in Palafolls Catalonia

Furniture

* The "Sentada" chair for Artespaña
*1993 The "Iñes Table" - designed for a project in Grenoble - a multi-use piece of furniture accommodating a variety of working and storage requirements.

Awards

* 2005 RIBA Stirling Prize for the Scottish Parliament Building
* 2002 Netherlands "Bouwprijs"
* 1996 "Golden Lion" from the Venice Biennale
* 1995 National Spanish Architecture Prize
* 1992 FAD-Prize (Fomento Arts Decorativas)
* 1985 FAD-Prize (Fomento Arts Decorativas)

Bibliography

* Enric Miralles, "Something seen at right and left (without glasses)", 1983 (PhD thesis - the title refers to Erik Satie's "Choses vues à droite et à gauche")
*El Croquis 30+49 / 50 Omnibus Volume. Enric Miralles / Carme Pinos: obra construita / built works 1983-1994. Madrid: El Croquis, 1995.
*cite book
last = Miralles
first = E.
coauthors = Taliabue, B.
title = EMBT Enric Miralles, Bernadetta Tagliabue, Work in Progress
format = Paperback
year = 2004
publisher = Col-legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya Publications
location = Barcelona
language = English & Catalan

*cite book
last = Zabalbeascoa
first = Anatxu
title = Igualada Cemetery: Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos (Architecture in Detail) " [Barcelona 1986 - 90; architects: Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós, 1986 competition project; Enric Miralles, 1987 - 90 project and construction] "
origyear = 1996
origmonth = July
publisher = Phaidon Press
location = London
id = ISBN 0-7148-3281-2

External links

* [http://www.mirallestagliabue.com EMBT Architects homepage]
* [http://www.geocities.com/medit1976/index.htm Barcelona Architecture] Chronology of Catalan architecture and biographies of Catalan architects, from the gothic master builders to contemporary architecture, including Miralles & Tagliabue
*
* [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/holyrood/projHistory/docs/emCv.htm Full CV/Resume]
* [http://www.cool-stuff-bcn.com/category/cool/architects-and-architecture/ Further CV]
* [http://www.meamnet.polimi.it/archive/050/050m.html MEAM net]
* [http://www.diba.es/biblioteques/agda/Biblioteques/BibDetall.asp?Bib=7034865&Id=20852905 Enric Miralles Public Library]


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