Benedetta Tagliabue is the principal of EMBT Architects, which she co-founded with Enric Miralles in 1994, and which now has offices in Barcelona (HQ), Shanghai, and Paris. (She is also the president of Fundació Enric Miralles, a centre that promotes emerging experimental architecture.)

The firm’s architecture – notable projects include Barcelona’s Santa Caterina Market, the Zhang Daqian Museum in Neijiang, China, and the Ceramiche Ragno showroom in Milan – draws on a rich array of design instrumentalities and results from intensively imaginative and innovative design processes characterized by a sensitive and contextual exploration of cultures, practices, technologies and materials.