She got her start in 1991, when she teamed up with Enric Miralles to found Miralles Tagliabue EMBT. With the firm’s support, Tagliabue has led such prestigious projects as the Utrecht City Hall extension (Netherlands), Parc de Diagonal Mar (Barcelona), an extension to the Hamburg Music School (Germany), and the Scottish Parliament Building (Edinburgh), the latter of which earned her the RIBA Stirling Award for Best Building. When she’s not designing, Tagliabue teaches at the University of Architecture ETSAB in Barcelona, and is a member of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.