【原】女性再次斩获建筑界诺贝尔

Amber看世界 2021-05-21

展开全文

In a video released by the Pritzker Architecture Prize, commonly seen as the Nobel of the architecture world, the winners look directly into the camera and introduce themselves in soft Irish accents.

普利茨克建筑学奖视为建筑届的诺贝尔奖，近日在他们发布的视频中，获奖者对着屏幕用软侬的爱尔兰口音作了自我介绍。

"My name is Shelley McNamara."

“我的名字叫谢丽·玛克拉玛拉。”

"And my name is Yvonne Farrell."

“我的名字叫做伊芳·福瑞尔。”

McNamara and Farrell co-founded their firm 42 years ago in Dublin.

麦克纳马拉和福瑞尔42年前在都柏林一起成立了她们的公司。

"Our name, Grafton Architects, comes from the street where we set up our first office, on Grafton Street," McNamara explains.

“我们公司名字叫格雷夫顿建筑公司，源于我们最初设立的第一个办公室所在的街道，格雷夫顿街，”玛克拉玛拉说到。

"And we were a group of five architects, and we had this idea of making a collective practice, so we called ourselves after the street. So we are anchored in our own place and our own culture."

“我们当时有一个五名建筑师组成的团队，大家想要一起做事，所以我们就以这条街来命名。这样我们就拥有了属于自己的地方和文化。”

Farrell and McNamara met as architecture students at University College Dublin in the mid-1970s.

福瑞尔和玛克拉玛拉是在20世纪七十年代中期的都柏林大学读建筑学的时候认识的。

Not much was happening in Ireland at the time architecturally, McCarter says, and Grafton Architects didn't start making much of a splash until the early 1990s, when the Irish economy started taking off.

当时的爱尔兰建筑界没有多少大事发生，麦克卡特尔说道，而格雷夫顿建筑公司，在20世纪90年代早期才开始崭露头角，那时候爱尔兰的经济开始腾飞了。

They designed a building for Trinity College in Dublin, houses and schools, and with other young architects they helped transform Dublin's Temple Bar Square into a lively, pedestrian-friendly commercial destination.

她们为都柏林的三一学院设计了一栋建筑以及一些房屋和校舍，并且同其他的年轻建筑师一起，把都柏林的寺庙街广场转变成了一个富有活力的步行街式的商业街区。

In fact, Grafton Architects didn't design a single building outside of Ireland until 2003, when the firm won an international competition to design the prestigious school of economics at the Universita Luigi Bocconi in Milan.

实际上，格雷夫顿建筑公司直到2003年才开始在国外有所建树，当时她们在国际竞争中获胜，为米兰的露琪·伯克利大学设计了著名的经济学院楼。

The building was completed in 2008.

该建筑于2008年完工。

"It's a series of big blocks that are made of stone, they're very opaque, and it has a glass bottom so along the street, it's very beautiful," says Sarah Whiting, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

“它是由一系列的石制的巨大模块组成的，颜色是灰暗的，沿街设有玻璃制成的底部结构，非常的漂亮，”莎拉·怀丁说道，她是哈佛研究生设计学院的院长。

"You feel like you're enveloped in the embrace of a tough building. It feels like its own world."

“你会感觉到被这所坚固的建筑所环抱。仿佛进入了另一世界。”

The building was an immediate sensation in international architecture circles.

这栋建筑立即引起了国际建筑界关注。

It was named World Building of the Year at the inaugural World Architecture Festival in 2008 and launched Grafton Architects as a leading designer of university buildings.

它在2008年的世界建筑节开幕式上被命名为年度世界建筑，从此格雷夫顿建筑公司成为了大学建筑界的顶尖设计公司。

The firm took on high-profile projects at the University Campus UTEC Lima in Peru, in France and in the United Kingdom, where they're currently finishing a project for the London School of Economics.

在公司接手了一些高端的大学项目，包括秘鲁UTEC利玛大学，法国以及英国的项目，在英国他们刚刚完成了一个伦敦经济学院的设计项目。

"We're passionately interested in education," McNamara said during a 2015 lecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.

“我们都对教育非常的感兴趣，”玛克拉玛拉在2015年的KTH瑞典皇家技术学院的一次演讲中说到。

"The university should be a place where knowledge is tended to like a garden. And we're the guardians of knowledge."

“大学应该是一个用来传授知识的，花园一般的地方，而我们就是这里的园丁。”

Farrell and McNamara have worked consistently as professors as well as designers throughout their careers — unusual for architects of their stature.

福瑞尔和玛克拉玛拉一直都在一边做教授，一边做设计师，对于像她们这样的地位的建筑师来说，是很不寻常的事情。

Both say teaching is an ongoing source of creative replenishment.

她们俩都说教学是她们不断创新的灵感来源。

And of course, they're also unusual in their gender.

当然了，她们的性别也是业界少见的。

Only three other women have won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in the past — Zaha Hadid in 2004, Kazuyo Sejima in 2010 (with Ryue Nishizawa) and Carme Pigem in 2017 (with Ramón Vilalta and Rafael Aranda).

以往仅有三名女性获得过普利茨克建筑学奖—2004年的扎哈·哈迪德，2010年的妹岛和世（与西则立卫）以及2017年的卡米·皮杰姆（与瑞蒙·瓦拉塔及拉菲尔·阿兰达）。