ICYMI: For the first time, two women — Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell — have won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often seen as the Nobel of the architecture world.
Yvonne Farrell, left, and Shelley McNamara are the 2020 winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. They are pictured above in Venice, Italy, in May 2018.Yvonne Farrell, left, and Shelley McNamara are the 2020 winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. They are pictured above in Venice, Italy, in May 2018.McNamara and Farrell co-founded their firm 42 years ago in Dublin.comes from the street where we set up our first office, on Grafton Street," McNamara explains.
It's a telling detail that the firm was named for its place in the city, and not after the architects themselves, says Robert McCarter, an architecture professor at Washington University in St Louis."Their practice is grounded in the specifics of place," he told NPR."Dublin and Ireland are very important. And they say their practice is committed to the cultural ethics of buildings, so it's an ethics that's all-encompassing of the culture in which they work.
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