What is recorded here
Yvonne Farrell was born in 1951 in Tullamore, County Offaly, the quiet birthplace of the architect who later reshaped global design. She studied at University College Dublin, graduated in 1974, and founded Grafton Architects with Shelley McNamara in 1977. Their work earned the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2020, proving that visionary clarity can emerge from any origin.
Why this person is known: Irish architect (born 1951)
- Birthplace
- Tullamore
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