Benedetta Tagliabue (born 1963) is an Italian architect based in Barcelona, principal and director of the studio Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, which she founded with her husband, the Spanish architect Enric Miralles. Born in Milan, she grew up between Italy and Spain, studied at the Università Iuav di Venezia, graduating in 1989, and worked in New York with Agrest and Gandelsonas. In 1994 she and Miralles formed EMBT in Barcelona, which a year later won Spain's National Architecture Award for a boarding school in Morella. After Miralles died in 2000 she completed his largest projects and went on to lead the studio, whose later work includes the Spanish Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo. She teaches at the Barcelona School of Architecture and is president of the Enric Miralles Foundation, a research centre in his honour.
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The Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh (2004), which she saw through to completion, won the 2005 Stirling Prize. In Barcelona she completed the remodelling of the Santa Caterina Market (2005) and the Gas Natural Building (2005), a tower whose glazed blocks cantilever out from its side.
