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Grafton Architects co-founders headline this year's crop of 2022 Daylight Award laureates

By Josh Niland|

Monday, May 16, 2022

Grafton Architects' Stirling Prize-winning design for Kingston University Town House. Image: Ed Reeve.

In unison with today’s UNESCO International Day of Light celebration, the group behind the 2022 Daylight Award has announced its dual winners for the biannual architecture and research competition.

Grafton Architects co-founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara joined Swiss academic Anna Wirz-Justice in this year’s crop of laureates for the unique award, which focuses on the incorporation of daylight into theories and approaches to the built environment. 

The trio joins SANAA, Steven Holl Architects, Henning Larsen, and juror Marilyne Andersen on a list of past winners of the now 42-year-old Award.

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects. Image courtesy The Daylight Award.

A jury comment noted the laureates’ abilities to “exemplify common themes,” adding that “not only do they represent international excellence in daylight research and practice, but they also embody a generous and humanistic spirit regarding the celebration of daylight.”

Grafton's Universita Luigi Bocconi in Milan. Photo: Iwan Baan.

“The contribution of daylight to enhance quality of life — even to celebrate life — is an intrinsic quality of their work,” the jury’s statement continued. “It is remarkable how they have applied this humanistic approach with a depth of knowledge and breadth of intentions that belies their humble and detached vision of their works’ importance.”

Grafton's design for UTEC Lima campus in Peru. Photo: Iwan Baan.

The 2021 Stirling Prize and 2020 Pritzker Prize winners’ leadership was honored for their use of light as a designator of design intent and function as seen in their award-winning Kingston University Town House and various other projects across the globe.

Anna Wirz-Justice. Image courtesy The Daylight Award.

“They use natural light to differentiate and articulate spaces of different importance, functional purpose, and experiential atmosphere,” the jury commented. “Daylight is employed in their design process as an integrated and irreplaceable quality, along with the spatial arrangement, structural frame, and technical systems.”

Additionally, Wirz-Justice was commended for her “pioneering research on how human circadian rhythms and sleep are regulated by light.” Her attempts to outline the role of light as a biological stimulus have had myriad applications in architecture, as evidenced by Grafton’s recent design for the UTEC campus in Lima, and the work of past winners Hiroshi Sambuichi and Juha Leiviskä. 

Wirz-Justice and the Grafton Architects founders each received a $100,000 cash prize as part of the awards. 

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Grafton Architects co-founders headline this year's crop of 2022 Daylight Award laureates

By Josh Niland|

Monday, May 16, 2022

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Grafton Architects' Stirling Prize-winning design for Kingston University Town House. Image: Ed Reeve.

Related

daylight ● grafton architects ● competition ● daylight award ● anna wirz-justice ● award ● research
Grafton Architects
Grafton Architects
Kingston University London
Kingston University London
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA
Steven Holl Architects
Steven Holl Architects
Henning Larsen
Henning Larsen

In unison with today’s UNESCO International Day of Light celebration, the group behind the 2022 Daylight Award has announced its dual winners for the biannual architecture and research competition.

Grafton Architects co-founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara joined Swiss academic Anna Wirz-Justice in this year’s crop of laureates for the unique award, which focuses on the incorporation of daylight into theories and approaches to the built environment. 

The trio joins SANAA, Steven Holl Architects, Henning Larsen, and juror Marilyne Andersen on a list of past winners of the now 42-year-old Award.

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects. Image courtesy The Daylight Award.

A jury comment noted the laureates’ abilities to “exemplify common themes,” adding that “not only do they represent international excellence in daylight research and practice, but they also embody a generous and humanistic spirit regarding the celebration of daylight.”

Grafton's Universita Luigi Bocconi in Milan. Photo: Iwan Baan.

“The contribution of daylight to enhance quality of life — even to celebrate life — is an intrinsic quality of their work,” the jury’s statement continued. “It is remarkable how they have applied this humanistic approach with a depth of knowledge and breadth of intentions that belies their humble and detached vision of their works’ importance.”

Grafton's design for UTEC Lima campus in Peru. Photo: Iwan Baan.

The 2021 Stirling Prize and 2020 Pritzker Prize winners’ leadership was honored for their use of light as a designator of design intent and function as seen in their award-winning Kingston University Town House and various other projects across the globe.

Anna Wirz-Justice. Image courtesy The Daylight Award.

“They use natural light to differentiate and articulate spaces of different importance, functional purpose, and experiential atmosphere,” the jury commented. “Daylight is employed in their design process as an integrated and irreplaceable quality, along with the spatial arrangement, structural frame, and technical systems.”

Additionally, Wirz-Justice was commended for her “pioneering research on how human circadian rhythms and sleep are regulated by light.” Her attempts to outline the role of light as a biological stimulus have had myriad applications in architecture, as evidenced by Grafton’s recent design for the UTEC campus in Lima, and the work of past winners Hiroshi Sambuichi and Juha Leiviskä. 

Wirz-Justice and the Grafton Architects founders each received a $100,000 cash prize as part of the awards. 

RELATED COMPETITION The Daylight Award 2022
RELATED NEWS Steven Holl named 2016 Daylight Award Architecture laureate
RELATED NEWS Grafton Architects' Town House at Kingston University wins the 2022 EU Mies van der Rohe Award
RELATED NEWS Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects win the ​2020 Pritzker Prize​
Yvonne Farrell & Shelley McNamara, Laureates of The Daylight Award 2022 for Daylight in Architecture
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