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Enric Miralles

The Scottish Parliament Building committee room ceiling. The Scottish Parliament Building (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba is the home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, within the UNESCO World Heritage Site
Personal information
Name Enric Miralles
Nationality Spain
Birth date 1955
Birth place Barcelona
Date of death July 3, 2000
Place of death Sant Feliu de Codines, Barcelona
Work
Practice name Piñon-Viaplana
Miralles Y Pinós
Significant buildings Scottish Parliament Building
Igualada Cemetery
Awards and prizes Stirling Prize (2005)
Madrid City Prize (1993)
National Prize of Spanish Architecture (1995)
Golden Lion (1996)
Igualada Cemetery
Igualada Cemetery
Santa Caterina Market
Santa Caterina Market
Exterior view of the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh
Exterior view of the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh
Debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament
Debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament

Enric Miralles Moya (1955 – July 3, 2000) was a Catalan architect. Barcelona ( Catalan bəɾsəˈlonə Spanish baɾθeˈlona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Sant Feliu de Codines is a Municipality in the ''comarca'' of the Vallès Oriental in Catalonia, Spain. The Scottish Parliament Building (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba is the home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, within the UNESCO World Heritage Site Igualada Cemetery or the Cemetery Nou in Igualada, near Barcelona, Catalonia, was designed by the architects Enric Miralles and The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in Architecture. The Leone d’Oro ('Golden Lion' is the highest prize given to a film at the Biennale Venice Film Festival. Igualada Cemetery or the Cemetery Nou in Igualada, near Barcelona, Catalonia, was designed by the architects Enric Miralles and The Scottish Parliament Building (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba is the home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, within the UNESCO World Heritage Site Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The Catalans are the people from Catalonia, an Autonomous community of Spain, including people originating in that region but living elsewhere An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction He graduated from the School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB) in 1978. After establishing his reputation with a number of collaborations with his first wife Carme Pinós, the couple separated in 1991. Carme Pinós (born 1954 is a Spanish architect Graduated at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona in 1979 He later married fellow architect Benedetta Tagliabue, and the two practiced together as EMBT Architects. Benedetta Tagliabue (born 1963, Milan, Italy) is an Architect currently practicing in Barcelona. Miralles' largest work, the new Scottish Parliament Building, was unfinished at the time of his death. The Scottish Parliament Building (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba is the home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, within the UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Life

In 1978 he completed his examinations at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura (ETSAB) in Barcelona. Barcelona ( Catalan bəɾsəˈlonə Spanish baɾθeˈlona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia 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. Carme Pinós (born 1954 is a Spanish architect Graduated at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona in 1979 Within the rising Spanish architecture scene of the late 1980s following the death of Francisco Franco, their unusual buildings attracted international attention. Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (born December 4, 1892 in Ferrol, died November 20, 1975 in Madrid 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 . The Scottish Parliament Building (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba is the home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, within the UNESCO World Heritage Site Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. Gas Natural SDG SA, ( is an energy company which operates primarily in Spain but also in such countries as Italy, Mexico, Colombia, Enric Miralles died at the age of 45 as the result of a brain tumor. A brain tumor is any intracranial Tumor created by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division, normally either in the Brain itself ( Neurons

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. Alejandro de la Sota Martínez ( October 20, 1913 - 14 February, 1996) was a Spanish Architect. Josep Maria Jujol Gibert ( Tarragona, September 16 1879 &ndash Barcelona, May 1 1949) was a Catalan architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier ( October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965) was a Swiss Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) ( February 20, 1901 or 1902 &ndash March 17, 1974) was a world-renowned Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto ( February 3, 1898 — May 11, 1976) was a Finnish Architect and Designer, sometimes Constructivism was an Artistic and architectural movement in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of " Art for art's sake " 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. Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste is a contemporary fine arts academy in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In 1993 he received an invitation from Harvard University to occupy the Kenzo Tange chair. was a Japanese Architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for Architecture. 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. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Former students Will Alsop Herbert Baker Geoffrey Bawa Ben van Berkel London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Rotterdam (pronounced) is the 2nd-largest City by population in the Netherlands, located in the province of The Mackintosh School of Architecture (MSAis one of the three schools which makes up the Glasgow School of Art, situated in the Garnethill area of Glasgow Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom The University of Buenos Aires (in Spanish Universidad de Buenos Aires - ( UBA) is the largest University in Argentina, founded on August The National Autonomous University of Mexico (in Spanish: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM) is a Public university based

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

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