Enric Miralles; Acclaimed Young Spanish Architect

Enric Miralles, 45, whose combination of fragmented forms and a sensuous use of materials made him one of Spain’s most respected young architects. A 1978 graduate of Barcelona’s architecture school, Miralles went on to earn a doctoral degree at Columbia University. With his first wife, the architect Carme Pinos, Miralles designed several buildings for Barcelona’s 1992 Summer Olympics, including the archery pavilion. In 1993, he won the City of Madrid architecture award and two years later he was awarded the Spanish Architecture Prize. His commissions include the Takaoka railway station in Japan; renovation of the Utrecht Town Hall in the Netherlands, which is due to be completed later this year; and the Music School in Hamburg, Germany. His design for Scotland’s Parliament building was selected in 1998, but the project has been marred by cost overruns and delays. The building, located in Edinburgh, is now scheduled to be finished in 2002. He was buried in a cemetery that he designed near Barcelona. On Sunday in Barcelona of a brain tumor.