Posgraduate Diploma of Urban Regeneration launched by Enric Miralles Foundation

Enric Miralles Foundation launches its first posgraduate on the theme of urban regeneration. During the course, which starts on October 8, students will develop an urban and social project acting on a real case, and it will be attended by great architects such as Richard Rogers and Jean Nouvel.

Clichy Montfermeil metro station in París by EMBT. Photography © Fundació Enric Miralles.

The course is organized in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Catalunya, it lasts 10 weeks and follow the ideas, methods and techniques of Enric Miralles, with the aim to train students in a specialized, contemporary and sustainable urbanism.

How should new cities be? The global economic crisis has so far awarded an unusual prominence in some emerging countries that they are in need of change the physiognomy of their cities, if not just create it. On the other hand, cities like Paris, Barcelona or Naples constantly renew their great historical centers. How should these new cities be? Does it make sense to build a new New York in China? And what new needs reveal the renovation of historic cities?

Based on the way of thinking and working of Enric Miralles and learning his methodology and his technique, and by joining the way of doing of EMBT Miralles Tagliabue the students will specialize on contemporary sustainable integrated Urbanism. The course aims to give students the necessary skills to develop an urban project from start to finish, participants will create their own proposals for the '2017 Grand Paris Clichy-Montferneil Suburbs of Paris' project by integrating all necessary theoretical and practical aspects on urbanism and creative design development.

The course leaders included Benedetta Tagliabue, director of the EMBT Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue arquitectos asociados, and Josep Maria Rovira, professor at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB). And will attend as visiting professors, among others, Richard Rogers and Jean Nouvel.

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Naples metro station by EMBT. Photography © Fundació Enric Miralles.

Renovation of Santa Caterina old market by EMBT. Photography © Fundació Enric Miralles.

Bremerhaven port model by EMBT. Photography © Fundació Enric Miralles.

Poster of the Posgraduate Diploma of Urban Regeneration launched by Enric Miralles Foundation. Photography © Fundació Enric Miralles.

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Enric MIRALLES

Enric Miralles Moya (Barcelona 1955 - Sant Feliu de Codines 2000) studied at the Barcelona School of Architecture, ETSAB, graduating in 1978. From 1973 to 1983 he collaborated with Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón, and in 1984 he founded the Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós studio, from this stage one of his most poetic works stands out, such as the Igualada Cemetery. In 1993 he began the EMBT study with his wife and partner Benedetta Tagliabue.

Considered an architect of great inventiveness, he defined himself as the enfant terrible of Spanish architecture. He was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Columbia University for the 1980-81 academic year. Two years later, he presented his doctoral thesis "Things seen to the left and the right, (without glasses)."

Since 1985 he was professor at ETSAB (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona), holding the Chair of Architecture since 1996. In 1990 he began as Director and Professor of the Master Class at Städelschule of Frankfurt and beginning in 1992 served as the "Kenzo Tange Chair” professor at the GSD of Harvard University. Moreover, he was visiting professor and lecturer at several universities in the United States (Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, Yale), Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, and a member of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.

As an architect of many works, his projects include, the Igualada Cemetery in Spain (1995) and the rehabilitation of Utrecht City Hall in Holland (2000). He was also active as an interior designer, with projects including The Hipostila shelving system(1989) in collaboration with Lluis Clotet and Oscar Tusquets Blanca for Bd Ediciones de Diseño, Lungomare Bench for Escofet,(2000), Vacante bench for Sellex (1991), and many other furnishing designs which were not put in production.

He has received numerous awards, including the National Prize of Spanish Architecture 1995, FAD Prize (Fomento Artes Decorativas) 1985 and 2000, The European ITALSTAD (Italy) 1991. Leone d’Oro Prize at the Biennale di Venezia 1996. His work has been published internationally in the most distinguished reviews, El Croquis N.100 101, Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue 1996-2000. GG. Miralles Tagliabue Time Architecture 1999. Electa, Documenti di Architettutra. Benedetta Tagliabue. Enric Miralles: Opere e Progetti. 1996. In 1999 he was named an Honorary member of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. In 2002 he received posthumously the Gold Medal from the Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya.