Grafton Architects directors Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara ? who have just been named the 2020 laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize ? have listed eight of the most significant projects from their career to date.
The duo founded their Dublin-based firm in 1978, and have taught at a number of architecture schools around the world, including University College Dublin, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Yale and EPFL in Lausanne.
Along with being named the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners, the pair were awarded the 2020 RIBA Royal Gold. Their many other accolades include the World Building of the Year award, which they won in 2008 for the Universita Luigi Bocconi in Milan.
They were also awarded the Silver Lion for their exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2012. This included their designs for the UTEC University in Lima, Peru ? a project that, once complete, won them the inaugural RIBA International Award. Here, Farrell and McNamara describe eight of their career-defining projects in their own words:

Photograph by Federico Brunetti
Universita Luigi Bocconi School of Economics; Milan, Italy, 2008
"We thought of the university as a place of exchange, a marketplace of ideas. The requirement was for research offices for 1,000 professors with conference facilities for 1,500 people. We held these two worlds apart and allowed the life of the city to enter into the world of the university. We saw this brief as an opportunity for the Luigi Bo...