Benedetta Tagliabue

The Department of Architecture welcomes Benedetta Tagliabue for her lecture "Building Environments of Care." Building Environments of Care explores how architecture can foster well-being by transforming public spaces into places of comfort, healing, and belonging. Through renaturalization, adaptive reuse, and human-centred design, the city can be reimagined as an environment of care—one in which nature and architecture come together to create warmth and a sense of home within the urban fabric. Attentive material choices, organic forms, and an empathetic approach to design can turn cities into nurturing landscapes that support both individual healing and collective well-being.

Benedetta Tagliabue is an architect and co-founder of EMBT Architects, established in Barcelona with Enric Miralles (1955–2000), and founder and director of the Fundació Enric Miralles. She has led the design of iconic works such as the Scottish Parliament (2004), the Santa Caterina Market (2005), and the Spanish Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo (2010). Recent projects include the Church and Parish Complex of San Giacomo Apóstolo in Ferrara (2021), the Centro Direzionale Metro Station in Naples (2024), and the Clichy-Montfermeil Metro Station in Paris (2024). She served as Louis Kahn Visiting Professor at Yale University and has previously taught at Harvard, Columbia, and other leading institutions. From 2011 to 2023, she was a jury member for the Pritzker Architecture Prize. In 2024, she received the Order of Isabella the Catholic, and in 2025, the Doctor of Design Honoris Causa from The Boston Architectural College (BAC).

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