LIGHT + TECH 135


‘It is wonderful that there is an award related to daylight. This reminds us that light is one of the key materials in architecture. What is amazing about natural light is that is so varying across the world’ Shelley McNamara


‘Natural light in Grafton Architects’ projects has a relaxed, generous and calm presence...it achieves a human scale and intimate environments within tall and large buildings ‘ Daylight Awards jury


THE DAYLIGHT AWARD FOR ARCHITECTURE


Grafton Architects


Left View of the central space in Dublin City Library in the Parnell Square Cultural Quarter


Top right Internal view of UTEC’s University Campus building in Lima, Peru


Bottom right Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara


founded Grafton Architects in 1978


Grafton Architects has ‘mastered the use of daylight throughout their wide and exceptionally varied design production,’ said the jury. ‘It is clear that daylight is particularly important in their architecture. It is not an accessory. It is a major constituent element of the architecture.’ The practice was founded in 1978 by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, who both graduated from the School of Architecture at University College Dublin in 1974, subsequently teaching there from 1976-2002. Grafton Achitects has won numerous architectural awards including the RIBA’s International Prize, Stirling Prize and Gold Medal. In 2020, Farrell and McNamara were selected as the Pritzker Prize Laureates.


What is distinctive about their approach, observed the jury, is that they use natural light to create hierarchy and denote purpose. ‘They differentiate and articulate spaces of different importance, functional purpose and experiential atmosphere. Daylight is employed in their design process as an integrated and irreplaceable quality, along with the spatial arrangement, structural frame and technical systems.’


GRAFTON ARCHITECTS


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