Benedetta Tagliabue studied architecture at the Istituto di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV) and currently acts as director of the international architecture firm Miralles Tagliabue EMBT (www.mirallestagliabue.com), founded in 1994 in collaboration with Enric Miralles, based in Barcelona and, since 2010, in Shanghai.

Her work received the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2005, the National Spanish Prize in 2006, the Catalan National prize in 2002, City of Barcelona prize in 2005 and 2009, FAD prizes in 2000, 2003 and 2007. She received the 2013 RIBA Jencks Award, which is given annually to an individual or practice that has recently made a major contribution internationally to both the theory and practice of architecture. 

Benedetta was invited as speaker in Hamburg in November 2016, together with Ben van Berkel and Wolf D. Prix. You can find see the pictures of the event and find more information here: www.architectsnotarchitecture.com/hh04.

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