The Pritzker Architecture Prize has released a new video of Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, Directors of Grafton Architectsand the 2020 laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. 

The Irish duo Farrell and McNamara are the 47th and 48th Laureates of the Pritzker Prize, and the first two recipients from Ireland. Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara are the fourth and fifth women receiving this prestigious award, after Zaha Hadid, Kazuyo Sejima - who won alongside with Ryue Nishizawa and Carme Pigem. 

Video courtesy of The Pritzker Architecture Prize

In a 2-min video, the architects talk about how the architects' responsibilities affect on the earth as an architect and a specified profession. 

"Everything that we, as architects and as a profession specified, affects the earth. We are impacting on this fragile earth as an enormous scale," said Yvonne Farrell. 

Grafton Architects' educational building at the Kingston University's Penrhyn Road campus in London. Image © Ed Reeve

"So what we do has huge responsibility and the responsibility about how beautiful we can make the world." 

"If we are taking from the nature, we give back," Farrell added. 

"I think the real challenge now in terms of how we use resources, I think that will change the kinds of building that we make," said Shelley McNamara. 

"We are doing deep research in terms of materials, we are really trying to learn from our own experience to gift that experience into the making of contemporary buildings," added Yvonne Farrell.

University Campus UTEC Lima, Lima, Peru, 2015. Image © Iwan Baan

Top image: University Campus UTEC Lima, Lima, Peru, 2015. Image © Iwan Baan

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