Yvonne Farrell

Yvonne Farrell
Farrell in 2015
Born1951 (age 72–73)
Alma materUniversity College Dublin
OccupationArchitect
Notable workThe Röntgen Building
AwardsPritzker Architecture Prize (with Shelley McNamara)

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.

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  2. ^ "RIBA International Awards". architecture.com.
  3. ^ Block, India (2 October 2019). "Grafton Architects wins 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal". de zeen. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara appointed curators of Venice Architecture Biennale". Biennial Foundation. 19 January 2017.

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