Benedetta Tagliabue Summary

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Introduction

This paper examines the experimental regionalist interpretations of the work of Benedetta Tagliabue and the late Enric Miralles (EMBT). After Enric completed his examinations in the city of Barcelona he worked in a small architect’s office of Albert Viaplana. After the completion of several architectural competitions, he formed his own office with the help of his former wife Carme Pinos. At this time the architecture within Spain was on the rise following the death of Francisco Franco and gave light to their unusual method of design. Their designs soon spread and a result of this they received numerous commissions from Spain and overseas.

In 1993 Enric formed a new practice with the help of his

Followers of regionalism help promote the revival and reinterpretation of tradition as an oppositional strategy. Kenneth Frampton’s first words in his essay were, ‘Prospects for a Critical Regionalism’, by identifying the resolution of tradition and modernity as the central paradox of our time. Followers of regionalism use tradition as a strong argument for opposition and help promote the revival of

Janet Abu-Lughod proposes a re-interpretation of the concept tradition. She challenges and argues that traditional environments have never been isolated and therefore have never been pure expressions of unified culture. Traditioning is the more active concept she prefers, which states that while traditions can draw on the past, they are ultimately created in the present for present needs.

Representations of tradition reflect on contemporary purposes and are therefore expressions of and a supply of power in a post- structuralist perspective that is. Within history, it is clear that only groups that hold the most power are entitled to select and redefine traditional cultural forms. Eggener discovered “critical regionalism is itself a construct most often imposed from outside, from positions of authority.” Critical regionalism truly belongs to a worldwide discourse about architecture that originated in the western hemisphere of the