McNamara has been teaching architecture at University College Dublin and other colleges since 1976. Shelley McNamara earned a Bachelor of Architecture from University College Dublin in 1974. Farrell is also a member of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, an Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and an elected member of Aosdána, Ireland’s cultural organization. She was a founding member of Group 91, which was responsible for the revival of Dublin’s Temple Bar neighborhood in the 1990s. Grafton Architects was founded in Dublin in 1977 by her and Shelley McNamara. Yvonne Farrell earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from University College Dublin in 1974. Also, Lacaton was one of the laureates of the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Lacaton & Vassal has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, Trienal de Lisboa (2016) and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (2019) along with Frédéric Druot Architecture and Christophe Hutin Architecture for the transformation of 530 Dwellings at Grand Parc, Bordeaux.
The practice has also worked on the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Nantes the art collection project FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais in Dunkirk the Cap Ferret residential building in Cap Ferret, and the Grand Parc Bordeaux (with Frédéric Druot and Christophe Hutin). Many projects are hybrids of a contemporary architectural concept with more diversified approaches, unsettling the conventional practices of building contractors.
The work of Lacaton and Vassal focuses on low-cost construction. She co-founded the architecture firm Lacaton & Vassal with Jean-Philippe Vassal. Her designs strive to encourage user interaction, such as among inhabitants in redeveloped regions. Lacaton’s ideas and constructions are concerned with the individuals involved rather than the iconic exhibition.
Anne Lacaton’s academic teaching focuses on architecture from an ideological and sociopolitical standpoint.
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