The 2020 Pritzker Prize went to Irish female architects. The Grafton Architects' Office was founded by Ivan Farrell and Shelley McNamara in 1978 in Dublin, Ireland. In this way, they were able to be the fourth and fifth women to win the above position. Prior to that, Zaha Hadid, Kazuo Sajima, Sana and RCR architects have been honored.
Grafton is an international architectural studio located in Dublin that has been able to carry out important national and international construction projects. With a diverse range of projects from Milford to Milan and from Lima to London, Grafton has shown that it puts each project in its own context. The office has featured outstanding projects such as the North King Street Residential Project (Ireland 2000), the Sulstik Art Center (Ireland 2007), the Loreto School Association (Milford 2006), the Financial Department Office (Dublin 2009), and the University of Limerick Medical School (Ireland 2012). Has left itself.
Farrell and Namara have jointly experimented with architecture for forty years in a direction that reflects Pritzker's permissible goals: recognizing the art of architecture and sustainable service to humanity through the construction of architectural works. Honorary and international membership, RIBA, Kenzo Tange's teaching at Harvard University, and Louis Kahn at Yale University, two-year Venice Architecture Curators in 2018, and numerous lectures at universities around the world are some of the other successful activities of these Irish women architects.