Yvonne Farrell (born 1951) is an Irish architect and academic. She is the co-founder, together with Shelley McNamara, of Grafton Architects, which won the World Building of the Year award in 2008 for their Bocconi 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 2020 Royal 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 the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2020, also with McNamara.
Yvonne Farrell | |
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 Farrell in 2015 | |
| Born | 1951 (age 72–73) |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Notable work | The Röntgen Building |
| Awards | Pritzker Architecture Prize (with Shelley McNamara) |
Career
editFarrell studied architecture at University College Dublin, graduating in 1974 with a bachelor's degree. In 1977, together with Shelley McNamara, she established Grafton Architects in Dublin. She is a founder member of Group 91, which was behind the revitalization of the Temple Bar district of Dublin in the 1990s.
Grafton Architects represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2002 and exhibited there again in 2008. Their Bocconi 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 the Civic Trust Award as well as the Architectural Association of Ireland Special Award.[6]
Farrell has taught at University College Dublin since 1976 and has been visiting professor at the Architecture Academy in Mendrisio, Switzerland, since 2008. She held the Kenzo Tange chair at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010 and currently teaches at the EPFL in Lausanne. 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 the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and an elected member of Aosdána, the Irish arts organisation.[7] Furthermore, she is adjunct professor at University 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 by NUI Galway, and in April 2019 they were awarded an honorary doctorate by Trinity College Dublin.[10] She and McNamara won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2020, making them the fourth and fifth women ever to be awarded the prize.[11] In 2022 Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara were awarded with The Daylight Award for daylight in architecture.
Main projects
edit- Grafton Building (Universita Luigi Bocconi), 2008, Milan, Italy
- Department of Finance, 2009, Dublin, Ireland
- Institut Mines Telecom, 2019, Paris Saclay, France
- Toulouse School of economics, 2019, Toulouse, France
References
edit- ^ "Yvonne Farrell", Aosdana. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
- ^ "RIBA International Awards". architecture.com.
- ^ Block, India (2 October 2019). "Grafton Architects wins 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal". de zeen. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ "Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara appointed curators of Venice Architecture Biennale". Biennial Foundation. 19 January 2017.
- ^ "Universita Luigi Bocconi by Grafton Architects", de zeen, 27 October 2008. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
- ^ a b "Yvonne Farrell" Archived 28 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine, World Architecture Festival. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
- ^ "Yvonne Farrell" Archived 11 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Irish Architecture Foundation. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
- ^ "Venice Architecture Biennale to be curated by UCD adjunct professors". ucd.ie.
- ^ "UCD Alumni Awardee".
- ^ "Registrar : Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland". tcd.ie. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ Holland, Oscar (3 March 2020). "Pritzker Prize 2020: Irish duo's win marks rare victory for women in the 'Nobel of architecture'". CNN. Retrieved 3 March 2020.