The 2020 Pritzker Prize-winning female architects and their most important works

Architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara have been announced as the winners of the 2020 Pritzker Prize, the world's highest architecture award. Co-founders of Grafton Architects , the duo heads an extensive portfolio of mostly public projects for libraries, colleges and schools – this because it was on the campus of the University of Dublin that the then students met, in the 70s. From there came the idea of founding their own office, which would only happen two years after their graduation, in 1978.

Before them, only Zaha Hadid had an all-female nomination during the 41 years of the award. On the other occasions – with Carme Pigem, in 2017, and Kazuyo Sejima, in 2010 – the honor was shared with her partners, Rafael Aranda, Ramon Vilalta and Ryue Nishizawa, all men. We have gathered together in this gallery the most important projects created by Farrell and McNamara over the years. The public projects make clear the duo's personal style: humanist values, which prioritize spaces for exchange and integration; important construction techniques that seek to stimulate the eye through originality; in addition to the intention of connecting the construction to the cultural context that surrounds it. Check it out!

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