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DESIGN:ED Podcast: Yvonne Farrell & Shelley McNamara

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Anthony Timberlands Center at the University of Arkansas.

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Pritzker Architecture Prize–winning architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara join Architectural Record’s DESIGN:ED podcast to discuss the new Anthony Timberlands Center at the University of Arkansas and the importance of architecture in contemporary society, while reflecting on the past 47 years of their Dublin-based firm, Grafton Architects.

“So many universities are pushing for the detached academic theoretical world while not understanding the fantastic thing of making. The University of Arkansas thought about how a new university building could act as a catalyst for local industry, which was waning in terms of timber production. [The Anthony Timberlands Center] is about education and what a university can do for a community. It’s about beauty—about making something beautiful. You can make something which starts out being a workshop and is like a piece of music, building up to a kind of crescendo.”

- Yvonne Farrell, Grafton Architects

Hosted by Austin, Texas–based architect Aaron Prinz, Architectural Record’s DESIGN:ED podcast has featured the most renowned architects of our time—such as Art Gensler, Kengo Kuma, and Glenn Murcutt, as well as rising professionals in the next generation, such as Pascale Sablan, Michael Murphy, and Jenny Wu, all available in our library.

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