Yvonne Farrell | |
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 Farrell in 2015 | |
| Born | 1951 (age 73–74) |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Notable work | The Röntgen Building |
| Awards | Pritzker Architecture Prize(withShelley McNamara) |
Yvonne Farrell (born 1951) is an Irish architect and academic. She is the co-founder, together withShelley McNamara, ofGrafton Architects, which won theWorld Building of the Year award in 2008 for theirBocconi University building in Milan.[1] The practice won the inaugural RIBA International Prize in 2016 for their Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología building in Lima, Peru,[2] and was awarded the 2020Royal Gold Medal.[3] In 2017 she was appointed, along with Shelley McNamara, as curator of the 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2018.[4] She won thePritzker Architecture Prize in 2020, also with McNamara.
Farrell studied architecture atUniversity College Dublin, graduating in 1974 with a bachelor's degree. In 1977, together withShelley McNamara, she established Grafton Architects in Dublin. She is a founder member of Group 91, which was behind the revitalization of theTemple Bar district of Dublin in the 1990s.
Grafton Architects represented Ireland at theVenice Biennale in 2002 and exhibited there again in 2008. TheirBocconi University project in Milan, which won the World Building of the Year Award in 2008, has been widely acclaimed and exhibited.[5] In 2009, the Department of Finance building in Dublin's city centre won theCivic Trust Award as well as theArchitectural Association of Ireland Special Award.[6]
Farrell has taught at University College Dublin since 1976 and has been a visiting professor at theArchitecture Academy inMendrisio, Switzerland, since 2008. She held the Kenzo Tange chair at theHarvard Graduate School of Design in 2010 and currently teaches at theEPFL inLausanne. She has lectured widely in European and American schools of architecture, including Oslo, Stockholm, Berlage, Yale, Buffalo, St.Louis, Kansas City and Tampa.[6]
Farrell is a fellow of theRoyal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, an Honorary Fellow of theRoyal Institute of British Architects and an elected member ofAosdána, the Irish arts organisation.[7] Furthermore, she is an adjunct professor atUniversity College Dublin.[8] In 2015, she was awarded the UCD Alumni Award for Architecture.[9] In November 2019, Farrell and her partner at Grafton Architects, Shelley McNamara, were awarded an honorary degree byNUI Galway, and in April 2019 they were awarded an honorary doctorate byTrinity College Dublin.[10] She and McNamara won thePritzker Architecture Prize in 2020, making them the fourth and fifth women ever to be awarded the prize.[11] In 2022 Yvonne Farrell andShelley McNamara were awardedThe Daylight Award for daylight in architecture.
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