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Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara win 2020 Pritzker Prize

By 2020-03-03T15:22:00

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects

Source: Grafton Architects

Grafton founders scoop another of architecture’s great honours

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara have been awarded the 2020 Pritzker Prize, hot on the heels of receiving RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal last month.

The news was announced by Martha Thorne, the prize’s executive director and dean of the IE architecture school in Madrid, in a live social media broadcast on Facebook and Instagram this afternoon.

The pair are only the third and fourth women to have won in the prize’s 42-year-history.

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