今年（2020年）のプリツカー賞を、グラフトン・アーキテクツを主宰する女性建築家のイボンヌ・ファレル（Yvonne Farrell）とシェリー・マクナマラ（Shelley McNamara）が受賞しています。アイルランドを拠点として活動しています。2018年にヴェネチアビエンナーレ国際建築展のキュレーターを務めたり2019年RIBAゴールドメダル受賞の経歴があります。彼女たちの経歴や審査についてはこちらのプリツカー賞公式ページにまとめられています。
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Grafton Architects was established in 1978. Directors Yvonne Farrell & Shelley McNamara are both graduates of UCD, are Fellows of the RIAI, are International Honorary Fellows of the RIBA and are elected members of Aosdána, the eminent Irish Art organisation. Teachers at the School of Architecture at University College Dublin from 1976 to 2002 and appointed adjunct Professors in 2015. They have held the Kenzo Tange chair at GSD Harvard and the Louis Kahn chair at Yale University and have been visiting professors at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; Accademia d’Archittettura, Mendrisio, Switzerland, where they were appointed as full professors in 2013. They have been external examiners at numerous universities including Cambridge University and The London Metropolitan School of Architecture. As well as public lectures in Dublin and abroad, including the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and the Royal Academy in London, they have lectured widely in European and American Schools of Architecture.
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