Education
Farrell studied architecture at University College Dublin, graduating in 1974.
Farrell studied architecture at University College Dublin, graduating in 1974.
In 1977, together with Shelley McNamara, she established Grafton Architects in Dublin. Grafton Architects represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2002 and exhibited there again in 2008. Farrell has taught at University College Dublin since 1976 and has been visiting professor at the Architecture Academy in Mendrisio, Switzerland, since 2008.
She held the Kenzo Tange chair at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010 and currently teaches at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne.
She has lectured widely in European and American schools of architecture, including Oslo, Stockholm, Berlage, Yale, Buffalo, Street.Louis, Kansas City and Tampa.
She is co-founder of Grafton Architects who won the World Building of the Year award in 2008 for their Bocconi University building in Milan. She is a founder member of Group 91 which was behind the regeneration of the Temple Bar district of Dublin in the 1990s. Their Bocconi University project in Milan, which won the World Building of the Year Award in 2008, has been widely acclaimed and exhibited. In 2009, the Department of Finance building in Dublin’s city centre won the Civic Trust Award as well as the Architectural Association of Ireland Special Award.
Yvonne Farrell is a fellow of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and elected member of Aosdána, the Irish arts organization.
