The Architect's Newspaper Celebrates Grafton Architects’ Winning Design!

In case you missed it, The Architect’s Newspaper recently sat down with Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Grafton Architects to discuss their winning design for the Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Material Innovation at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. Farrell and McNamara won the competition in 2020, the same year they won the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

At a time when the AEC industry is buzzing about mass timber as the only renewable building construction material, the recent article takes a deeper dive into the design of the building, calling it “the first building designed in North America to be a masterclass in timber”.

Grafton Architect’s design is a response to the challenge to provide a building that is “redolent of the qualities of the forest, one that imagines anew timber and wood as materials” and is “hewn, carved, jointed, woven, and assembled, layered, laminated”.

Learn more about the design by reading the complete article titled, How Do You Hang an Auditorium From a Queen Post Truss?