Grafton Architects   France   The volume breaks up into a series of stacked arms slightly rotated to ensure visual continuity between the urban fabric and the beautiful banks of the Garonne River. While the building is fragmented into volumes and wings, it uses a single essential

Grafton Architects   United States   Dublin-based Grafton Architects will be building the Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation in the city of Fayetteville, having won the competition organized by the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University

Grafton Architects   United Kingdom   With its detailing of asymmetrical portal frames, the university building serves as a symbolic gate connecting London to the bordering municipality of Kingston upon Thames. The building’s distinctive image as a delicately asymmetrical altarpiece giv

Grafton Architects   Italy   La centenaria universidad privada Luigi Bo­cconi convocó en 2001 un concurso para el diseño de un edificio que alojara una gran aula magna, salas de conferencias y las oficinas centrales de la institución, que comprendían siete departamentos y veinti

The Pritzker Architecture Prize   The video, produced in lieu of an in-person ceremony for the first time in the 42-year history of the award, discusses the meaning of the Prize, reveals the Laureates’ intimate reflections on architecture, and includes a personal message to embolden

Soon after the Dublin-based Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara learned that they had come away with the 2010 Pritzker Prize (see Arquitectura Viva 223), it was announced that their firm, Grafton Architects, had carried the day in the competition for

Grafton Architects  The Gold Medal of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) is the maximum distinction that can be given to a professional in the field in the United Kingdom, and it went to Grafton Architects, the office led by Yvonne

Antonio Lucas   Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara were brainstorming for a name for their studio. It was 1978. They combined their surnames, switched their names around, sometimes drifting toward a more abstract or poetic formulation to go by as an architectural d

The social coherence and commitment demonstrated by Grafton Architects, established in 1978, in Dublin, by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, has garnered this year’s Pritzker Prize, the first ever to be conferred on a partnership of women. Arquite

Brutalism with a friendly countenance: this is how one might venture to describe the architecture that Grafton Architects – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara – have been carrying out for the past twenty years in Ireland, Europe, and America, from t

In 2020, for the first time in the history of the award, the Hyatt Foundation gave the Pritzker Prize to a tandem of women: the Irish firm Grafton Architects. The work of Yvonne Farrell (1951) and Shelley McNamara (1952) – in joint practice since 197

Richard Ingersoll   The optimistic view of ‘Freespace’, a concept promoted by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, better known as Grafton Architects and this year’s Biennale curators, is that architecture can be generous while serving utilitarian functions. Leon Battis

The board of the Venice Biennale, chaired by Paola Baratta, has announced that Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara (Grafton Architects) will be curating the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, set to be held from 26 May to 25 November 2018. A