Who are Grafton Architects? 20 Things to Know About the 2020 Pritzker Laureates
Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering. Image © Ros Kavanagh
With more than 40 years of professional experience, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, partners and co-founders of Dublin-based Grafton Architects, are the first women to be jointly awarded the architecture’s highest honor, the Pritzker Prize. In addition to a very welcoming breath of hope towards greater female representation in the field, the selection also cast light over an equally urgent theme in the profession: recognizing architecture practice as a collective effort.
