Grafton Architects founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara have been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in a video ceremony held because the physical event was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Replacing the regular in-person ceremony, the video features a virtual ceremony along with Farrell and McNamara talking about their approach to architecture and messages from past laureates.
According to the Pritzker Architecture Prize organisers, the video is "a documentary-style archival piece".
It includes citations about Farrell and McNamara's architecture by the president of Ireland Michael D Higgins; the prize's jury chair, US Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer; Pritzker Architecture Prize executive director Martha Thorne; and Tom Pritzker, chairman of the Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award. An extended version of the video is available to watch on the Pritzker Architecture Prize's website.
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara were awarded this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize
Farrell and McNamara were revealed as this year's winners in March and are the first two Irish citizens to win the prestigious award and the fourth and fifth women.
"This is a time for new and agile thinking, not only about every space that we touch, but also for new thinking about our relationship with each other," said Pritzker.
"It's fitting, therefore, that this year's laureates, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, have first and foremost demo...