La Biennale di Venezia has appointed Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara as curators of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in 2018. They live and work in Dublin, where they graduated from the School of Architecture of University College and co-founded the firm Grafton Architects in 1977.

The firm were represented at the Biennale Architettura 2002; won the Silver Lion at the Biennale Architettura in 2012, where they presented their Project for the UTEC University campus in Lima, Peru; they were represented at the Biennale Architettura 2016 under the title “The Physics of Culture”. The architects have been jury members for many prestigious architectural awards such as the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2008, the Mies Van Der Rohe Prize in 2011 and the RIBA Award in 2012.
 
The 16th International Architecture Exhibition will be inaugurated on Saturday, May 26 and will conclude on Sunday, November 25, 2018. MAO and its director Matevž Čelik will again be the comminioners of the Slovenian pavilion and the curator of the presentation in Arsenale will be announced later in the year.

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