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There is an international club so exclusive it consisted

of only three members. That’s the number of women archi-

tects who had won the Pritzker Architecture Prize since its

inception in 1979.

That club admitted two more Tuesday: Yvonne Farrell

and Shelley McNamara, founders of the Irish studio

Grafton Architects. The pair are known for producing

formidable buildings of brick and concrete that harbor

surprising pockets of light and air within.

“Without grand or frivolous gestures, they have man-

aged to create buildings that are monumental institu-

tional presences when appropriate,” reads the citation

issued by the Pritzker jury, “but even so they are zoned and

detailed in such a way as to produce more intimate spaces

that create community within.”

“To be an architect is an enormous privilege,” said

Farrell in a statement. “To win this prize is a wonderful

endorsement of our belief in architecture.”

With their win, they join the rarefied ranks of the design

world, becoming the 47th and 48th Pritzker Prize lau-

reates, issued by the Hyatt Foundation in Chicago.

They also join the even more rarefied ranks of women

who have received the Pritzker, including the late Iraqi

British architect Zaha Hadid, who won in 2004, and

remains the only solo woman winner, as well as Kazuyo

Sejima (of the Japanese firm SANAA) and Carme Pigem

(of RCR Arquitectes, a studio from Spain), who won as

part of ensembles in 2010 and 2017, respectively.

Farrell and McNamara are, as noted the jury’s citation,

“pioneers in a field that has traditionally been and still is a

male-dominated profession” (something the Pritzker

Prize, with its heroic, dude-heavy laureate list, has had a

hand in perpetuating).

For the architects, the Pritzker marks a historic, trans-

Atlantic sweep. Last month the pair were awarded the

Royal Gold Medal in architecture by the Royal Institute of

British Architects. As with the Pritzker, they were the

fourth and fifth female architects to win that prestigious

award — and the first all-female team to do so. (And as

with the Pritzker, Hadid remains the

‘Pioneers’ in design

Irish pair among rare women to win the top architectural honor

YVONNE FARRELL,

Shelley McNamara.

Alice Clancy

THIS UTECbuilding in Lima, Peru, exemplifies the style of the 2020 Pritzker Prize winners: formidable with pockets of light and air.

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Alice Clancy

The original “Party of
Five” revolved around a
group of white siblings
forced to raise themselves
after their parents died in a
car crash. Nearly two dec-
ades later, Freeform’s re-
boot, set in Echo Park, fol-
lows the Acosta siblings as
they cope with the ongoing
effects of their parents being
deported.
Now, in the final stretch
of its first season, “Party of
Five” has taken its story to
Mexico.
The season’s penulti-
mate episode, “Mexico,” ex-
plored the unraveling mar-
riage between Javier and

The kids check in on parents

‘Party of Five’ reboot

co-creator details the

visit to deported dad

and mom in Mexico.

By Yvonne Villarreal

[See‘Party of Five,’E8]

EMILY TOSTA,from left, Bruno Bichir, Niko Guardado and Fernanda Urrejola

during an unexpected family reunion in “Party of Five’s” “Mexico” episode.

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A timely play by

any ‘Measure’

Society’s shifting

views on sex inform

Antaeus’ staging of a

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Dressed in a blue-gray

checked suit jacket, Robert

Kirkman sat hunched in the

front row of a downtown Los

Angeles courtroom as law-

yers and witnesses took

turns dissecting his AMC

Networks contract, illumi-

nated on screens around the

white tile and walnut wood-

paneled room.

Kirkman, who wrote the

comics upon which AMC

based its hit show “The

Walking Dead,” alternated

between resting his head on

his right hand and throwing

exasperated looks to his

business partner David

Alpert, who sat beside him

on the slick wooden pews.

The men were in court re-

cently to press their case

against AMC Networks, al-

leging its namesake cable

network cheated them out of

potentially hundreds of mil-

lions of profits from “The

Walking Dead” and its spin-

offs. The producers allege

they only received profits

from two of the 10 years the

highest-rated show in cable

TV history has been on the

air.

“They kept indicating

that they would provide and

treat us fairly, and then

when they didn’t, we then

ended up in litigation,”

Alpert said of AMC in court.

A decade after “The

Walking Dead” premiered,

the cable network that made

its name with “Mad Men”

This legal battle

just will not die

AMC, ‘Walking Dead’

creators tussle over

profits, a growing issue

in the streaming age.

By Anousha Sakoui

[See‘Walking Dead,’E2]

Ronan Farrow has

threatened to cut ties with

Hachette over an upcoming

memoir by his father, Woody

Allen.

“I was disappointed to

learn through press reports

that Hachette, my publisher,

acquired Woody Allen’s

memoir after other major

publishers refused to do so

and concealed the decision

from me and its own employ-

ees while we were working on

‘Catch and Kill,’ ” the jour-

nalist said in a statement

posted to Twitter on Tues-

day. “I’ve also told Hachette

that a publisher that would

conduct itself in this way is

one I can’t work with in good

conscience.”

Farrow’s 2019 book re-

counted the challenges he

faced while reporting on the

allegations of sexual miscon-

duct against movie mogul

Harvey Weinstein. As Far-

row explains in his state-

ment, it is “a book about how

powerful men, including

Woody Allen, avoid account-

ability for sexual abuse.” The

book was published by Ha-

chette imprint Little, Brown.

In his statement, Farrow

also blasted the publisher

for not fact-checking Allen’s

upcoming book. His sister

Dylan made similar accusa-

tions against the publisher

Monday.

Dylan’s statement called

the upcoming autobiogra-

phy “deeply unsettling and

an utter betrayal of my

brother whose brave report-

ing, capitalized on by Ha-

chette, gave voice to numer-

ous survivors of sexual as-

sault by powerful men.” She

said she was never con-

tacted by fact-checkers to

verify any information.

“This provides yet anoth-

er example of the profound

privilege that power, money

Farrow

siblings

slam

Allen’s

book

Ronan and Dylan say

publisher Hachette

has not fact-checked

filmmaker’s memoir.

By Dorany Pineda

and Tracy Brown

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