Yvonne Farrell (Born 1951) Is An Irish Architect and Academic

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Yvonne Farrell (born 1951) is an Irish architect and academic.

She is the co-founder of Grafton


Architects, which won the World Building of the Year award in 2008 for their Bocconi University
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building in Milan. The practice won the inaugural RIBA International Prize in 2016 for their
[2]
Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología building in Lima, Peru, and was awarded the 2020
[3]
Royal Gold Medal. In 2017 she was appointed, along with Shelley McNamara, as curator of the
[4]
16th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2018. She won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2020,
also with McNamara.Yvonne Farrell (born 1951) is an Irish architect and academic. She is the
co-founder 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 (born 1951) is an Irish
architect and academic. She is the co-founder 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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