Shelley McNamara
Shelley McNamara (born 1952 in Lisdoonvarna , County Clare ) is an Irish architect . Together with Yvonne Farrell, she is co-founder of the architectural firm Grafton Architects . Together they received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2020 .
Live and act
Shelley McNamara completed a degree in architecture at University College Dublin (UCD) from 1974 . Upon graduation, she began teaching architecture at University College Dublin. She was an external examiner at Cambridge University and the London Metropolitan School of Architecture. In addition to teaching, McNamara has given lectures at European and American architecture schools. In 2015 she was appointed Associate Professor at University College Dublin.
Together with Yvonne Farrell, she founded the architectural firm Grafton Architects in Dublin in 1978 . Since then, the architects have designed buildings and complexes together. You often work with concrete and large exposed concrete surfaces , with hard brick surfaces and exposed structures. "For example, they reinterpreted the function of balconies or staircases: From then on, these were no longer used to linger at home in isolation or to hurry up and down, but for communication and lingering together," reports the architecture critic Nikolaus Bernau on the occasion of the Pritzker award -Architecture Prize.
In their designs they address the question of how public space works. Their buildings stand on the one hand in the tradition of post-war modernism , on the other hand for 'open meeting architecture '.
Shelley McNamara and her partner became known to a larger audience as curators of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale . With the motto Freiraum they conjured up the "generosity of the spirit, as the courage to new thinking, at the same time as a sense of humanity and the basis of architecture".
They “create spaces that are respectful and new at the same time,” said the Hyatt Foundation in 2020 when it awarded the architects the Pritzker Prize.
Shelley McNamara is a member of the Royal Institute of Irish Architects (RIAI), a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and an elected member of Aosdána , the major Irish arts organization. She is the first female architect to be accepted into Aosdána.
Teaching activity (selection)
- 1977–2009 Lecturer at University College Dublin (UCD)
- 2008–2010 visiting professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana , Accademia di Architettura
- 2010–2011 visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
- 2010 visiting professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design , Kenzo Tange chair
- 2011 visiting professor at Yale School of Architecture , Louis Kahn Chair
Buildings (selection)
- 2000: North King Street Housing, Dublin
- 2003: Community School, North Kildare
- 2006: Milford School, Donegal
- 2006: Extension of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Dublin
- 2007: Treasury Building, Dublin
- 2008: Adamstown Library and Civic Center, Dublin
- 2013: University of Limerick Medical School building
- 2015: University Campus Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Lima ( Peru )
- 2016: Paul Marshall Building - London School of Economics
- 2019: Université Toulouse 1
- 2019: Institut Mines Telecom, Paris
Awards (selection)
All awards and prizes together with Yvonne Farrell
- 2003: Best Public Building Award from the Royal Institute of Irish Architects
- 2008: World Building of the Year Award at the World Architectural Festival for the Luigi Bocconi University of Milan building
- 2009: Nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Prize
- 2012: Silver Lion, 12th Venice Architecture Biennale
- 2013: Nomination for the Sterling Prize for a building at the University of Limerick
- 2016: International Prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects for the University Campus of the Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Lima (Peru)
- 2017: Curator of the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale 2018
- 2018: Blueprint Award for contemporary architecture
- 2019: Honorary Doctorate from Trinity College Dublin
- 2019: Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Galway
- 2020: Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects
- 2020: Pritzker Architecture Prize
publication
- Yvonne Farrell, Shelley McNamara: Dialogue and Translation. Grafton Architects. Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, Bethesda 2014, ISBN 978-1-941332-01-6 (English).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wojciech Czaja: Irish architects McNamara and Farrell receive the Pritzker Prize. In: derStandard.at. March 3, 2020, accessed March 4, 2020 .
- ^ Pritzker Prize for Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara. In: ZEIT online. March 4, 2020, accessed March 4, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Open encounter architecture. Pritzker Prize for Farrell and McNamara. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur. March 3, 2020, accessed March 4, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Highest architecture prize goes to two Irish architects. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk. March 4, 2020, accessed March 4, 2020 .
- ^ Stanislaus von Moos: Built in the clouds. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. February 10, 2017, accessed March 4, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McNamara, Shelley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish architect and university teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisdoonvarna , County Clare |