The topping out slab being added to the cascading roof plane (Courtesy Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas) More than 120 people gathered on Tuesday, September 17 to ...

Following its Pritzker Prize win, concrete connoisseur Grafton Architects isn’t creating another beautiful stone building as you might expect given its previous output. Instead, the Irish firm has ...

Following a lengthy design review process, Irish architecture firm Grafton Architects was chosen by the University of Arkansas’ Board of Trustees to design the institution’s new Anthony Timberlands ...

Architect Yvonne Farrell was at home in her kitchen on the evening of January 19, 2020, when she received a phone call from Martha Thorne, the executive director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

The annual Pritzker Prize is architecture's most prestigious honor and the list of previous winners include Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and, more recently, Arata Isozaki and Balkrishna Doshi. The 2020 ...

“We were hungry for this opportunity to go back to first principles,” says Shelley McNamara, 2020 Pritzker Award recipient together with her partner at Grafton Architects, Yvonne Farrell, about ...

Arkansas does not fit the common image of the Midwestern United States with its endless prairies and cornfields. Low mountain ranges rise to 800 m above sea level and 60% of the state is covered by ...

In a video released by the Pritzker Architecture Prize, commonly seen as the Nobel of the architecture world, the winners look directly into the camera and introduce themselves in soft Irish accents.

UTEC in Lima, Peru. Photo by Iwan Baan, courtesy of Grafton Architects. The Chicago Architecture Center’s ongoing series of Architect Talks continues with a conversation and guest lecture with 2020 ...

Irish architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara won the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize, which some call the craft’s Nobel Prize. The duo co-founded Irish design firm Grafton Architects. A ...

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the shortlist of six finalist projects in the running for the inaugural RIBA International Prize. The first RIBA Award open to any ...