Miralles trained at the Barcelona school (ETSAB, graduating 1978) after working through his studies in the office of Viaplana and Piñón. From 1983 to 1991 he ran a joint practice with his first wife, Carme Pinós, in which the two were equal authors of the Igualada cemetery and the La Llauna school; the credit line for those years is Miralles–Pinós. In 1993, with his second wife, Benedetta Tagliabue, he founded EMBT, and spent his last years on the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh and the renovated Santa Caterina market in Barcelona, both completed after his death from a brain tumour in 2000, aged 45. His buildings favour irregular, faceted geometries and mixed concrete, steel and timber worked as if improvised on site. The Scottish Parliament won the Stirling Prize in 2005, five years after his death.
