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Grafton Architects
Founded in 1978 by Yvonne Farrell (1951) and Shelley McNamara (1952), graduates of UCD, University College Dublin, Grafton Architects is named after the well-known street in the Irish capital. Initially, the majority of the Practice's work was in Dublin, mainly on school or university buildings, public and residential projects. Teaching has also been an important part of the two architects’ careers. Both have lectured at University College Dublin (1977-2009) and ....
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Norman Foster
One of the most eminent and influential British architects and designers of recent decades, Norman Foster (1935) graduated from the University of Manchester (1956-1961), following military service as a pilot in the Royal Air Force (1953-1955). In the subsequent two years he gained his Master’s Degree at Yale, where he met Richard Rogers, with whom he worked from 1963 to 1967 at Team 4. After parting company with Rogers, Foster founded Foster Associates in 1967 (now ....
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Peter L. Wilson
Julia Bolles was born in 1948 in Münster, Germany, and graduated from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 1976. She then completed her studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture - AA. From 1996 to 2014, she was a professor at the Münster School of Architecture. A member of the Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung (DASL) and of the Design Council of Salzburg, she has been dean of the Münster School of Architecture since 2008 ....