In A First, Architecture's Most Prestigious Prize Is Awarded To Two Women
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara founded Grafton Architects in Dublin in 1978. The Pritzker Architecture Prize jury called the two Irish architects "beacons" in a male-dominated field.
In a video released by the Pritzker Architecture Prize, commonly seen as the Nobel of the architecture world, the winners look directly into the camera and introduce themselves in soft Irish accents.
"My name is Shelley McNamara."
"And my name is Yvonne Farrell."
McNamara and Farrell co-founded their firm 42 years ago in Dublin.
"Our name, comes from the street where we set up our first office, on Grafton Street," McNamara explains. "And we were a
