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19 + 17 Jan 2017
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Grafton Architects Co-Founders to Curate 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
The organizers of the Venice Biennale named Irish architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Grafton Architects, as curators of the International Architecture Exhibition in 2018, reports the Architectural Record.
The announcement comes on the heels of yet another victory for the small, Dublin-based firm. In late November, Grafton Architects received RIBA?s first-ever International Prize for its monumental, Brutalist-inspired ?vertical campus? for the Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia (UTEC) in Lima, Peru. Recent accolades aside, Farrell and McNamara have been practicing for nearly four decades. Since establishing their firm in 1978, the pair has designed numerous institutional projects in their native Ireland as well as abroad in countries including Italy and France.
The architects are no stranger to the Biennale, either. In 2012, the firm won the prestigious Silver Lion award for their exhibition ?Common Ground,? a collaboration with Paulo Mendes de Rocha. At last year?s exhibition, they created a video installation documenting the life?inside and out?of their UTEC building.
?The curators, who are well-known for the refinement of their work, are also kn...