English: arcVision Prize 2015 – Women and Architecture – YVONNE FARRELL

i.lab Italcementi Group, Bergamo (Italy) – March, 5/6 2015

Yvonne Farrell, together with Shelley McNamara, is a founder of Grafton Architects – their office, which opened in Dublin in 1977. They are Fellows of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and International Honorary Fellows of the RIBA. They achieved international fame with the design and construction of the spectacular new building for Bocconi University in Milan, completed in 2008. Their practice began with experimenting with a sophisticated take on European modernism moving toward high-profile public buildings (the Solstice Art Center, Navan 2006; the Office of Public Works, Dublin 2008). They have received many awards for their work (Building of the Year 2008, for the new Bocconi University Building), as well as the Leone d’Argento at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012. Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara are Professors in the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio and Adjunct Professors in University College Dublin. They have been Visiting Professors in Yale and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Current work includes IMT University, Paris/ Saclay; New City Library, Dublin and the recently inaugurated UTEC University Campus in Lima, Peru.

ArcVision Prize 2015 by Italcementi Group, III edition: http://www.italcementi.it/ITA/Media+C...

SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR Stefano Casciani

THE JURY Shaikha Al Maskari Vera Baboun Daria Bignardi Odile Decq Yvonne Farrell Louisa Hutton Suhasini Mani Ratnam Samia Nkrumah Benedetta Tagliabue Martha Thorne ______________________________________________________________

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