Understanding Grafton Architects, Directors of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
?When you read Love in the Time of Cholera you come to realize the magic realism of South America.? Yvonne Farrell, Shelley McNamara and I were in a corner of the Barbican Centre?s sprawling, shallow atrium talking about the subject of their most recent accolade, the Royal Institute of British Architects inaugural International Prize, awarded that previous evening. That same night the two Irish architects, who founded their practice in Dublin in the 1970s, also delivered a lecture on the Universidad de IngenierÃa and Tecnologia (UTEC)?their ?modern-day Machu Picchu? in Lima?to a packed audience in London?s Portland Place.
UTEC / Grafton Architects. Image © Iwan Baan
?When you read Love in the Time of Cholera you come to realize the magic realism of South America.? Yvonne Farrell, Shelley McNamara and I were in a corner of the Barbican Centre?s sprawling, shallow atrium talking about the subject of their most recent accolade, the Royal Institute of British Architects inaugural International Prize, awarded that previous evening. That same night the two Irish architects, who founded their practice in Dublin in the 1970s, also delivered a lecture on the Universidad de IngenierÃa and Tecnologia (UTEC)?their ?modern-day Machu Picchu? in Lima?to a packed audience in London?s Portland Place.Farrell and McNamara, who together lead a team of twenty-five as Grafton Architects, are both powerful thinkers, considered conversationalists and unobtrusively groundbreaking...
UTEC / Grafton Architects. Image © Iwan Baan
?When you read Love in the Time of Cholera you come to realize the magic realism of South America.? Yvonne Farrell, Shelley McNamara and I were in a corner of the Barbican Centre?s sprawling, shallow atrium talking about the subject of their most recent accolade, the Royal Institute of British Architects inaugural International Prize, awarded that previous evening. That same night the two Irish architects, who founded their practice in Dublin in the 1970s, also delivered a lecture on the Universidad de IngenierÃa and Tecnologia (UTEC)?their ?modern-day Machu Picchu? in Lima?to a packed audience in London?s Portland Place.Farrell and McNamara, who together lead a team of twenty-five as Grafton Architects, are both powerful thinkers, considered conversationalists and unobtrusively groundbreaking...
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