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Yvonne Farrell

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Yvonne Farrell (born 1951) is an Irish architect and academic. She is the co-founder, together with Shelley McNamara, of Grafton Architects, which won the World Building of the Year award in 2008 for their Bocconi University building in Milan. The practice won the inaugural RIBA International Prize in 2016 for their Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología building in Lima, Peru, and was awarded the 2020 Royal Gold Medal. In 2017 she was appointed, along with Shelley McNamara, as curator of the 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2018. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yvonne Farrell is the 356th most popular architect (down from 321st in 2019), the 180th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 136th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Irish Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Yvonne Farrell ranks 356 out of 518. Before her are Henning Larsen, Imre Makovecz, Antonio Rinaldi, Albert Kahn, Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, and Tylman van Gameren. After her are Max Berg, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, Jan Santini Aichel, Justus Dahinden, Moisei Ginzburg, and Thomas Telford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Yvonne Farrell ranks 285. Before her are Jóannes Eidesgaard, Viktor Sukhorukov, Phil Manzanera, Alfredo Astiz, Catherine Hicks, and Tony Amendola. After her are Margo Martindale, Rosa Montero, Leonid Kadeniuk, Zalmay Khalilzad, Jean-Pierre Bacri, and Waldir Peres.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Yvonne Farrell ranks 180 out of 549. Before her are Peter Woulfe (1727), Seán O'Casey (1880), Enda Kenny (1951), Barry Fitzgerald (1888), Edna O'Brien (1930), and Dorothea Jordan (1761). After her are John de Robeck (1862), Herbert Brenon (1880), Jack Gleeson (1992), Alan Cunningham (1887), Finn Bálor (1981), and William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Ireland

Among architects born in Ireland, Yvonne Farrell ranks 4. Before her are Eileen Gray (1878), James Hoban (1762), and Kevin Roche (1922). After her are Shelley McNamara (1952).

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