Enric Miralles (1955–2000) was a Spanish architect from Barcelona whose freely formed buildings grow out of their landscape. He graduated from the Barcelona School of Architecture in 1978, and in 1984 opened an office with his first wife, Carme Pinós, which drew international attention in the years of Spain's democratic revival. From 1993 he practised with his second wife, the Italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue, as EMBT Architects. His work drew on Alejandro de la Sota, Josep Maria Jujol, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, Alvar Aalto and the Russian Constructivists. He died of a brain tumour at 45.
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The Igualada Cemetery (1994), designed with Pinós, cuts into the land as a river of life leading the living down to a city of the dead; Miralles is buried there. With Tagliabue he converted the Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona (2005) and designed the Gas Natural Building there (2005), whose glazed blocks cantilever out from the tower. The Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh (2004), his largest and most controversial project, opened years late and far over budget after his death, and went on to win the 2005 Stirling Prize.
