RA Architecture Awards
RA Architecture Awards
The Royal Academy Architecture Prize and The Royal Academy Dorfman Award celebrate outstanding, international contributions to design. Both prizes showcase the RA’s commitment to the future of architecture and design.
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The Royal Academy Architecture Prize
The RA Architecture Prize acknowledges the RA’s unique place at the heart of public debate about art, architecture, and civic life.
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2023 winner: Shane de Blacam
The Royal Academy Architecture Prize 2023 has been awarded to Shane de Blacam.
The jury was impressed by his commitment to creating communal spaces. They also highlighted his remarkable craftsmanship and the pleasure he takes in joinery and detail.
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Trinity College Atrium
Taoiseach Prime Minister's House
Library, Cork Institute of Technology
Munster Technological University Cork
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2022 Winner: Renée Gailhoustet
The winner of the 2022 Royal Academy architecture prize – Renée Gailhoustet – has been recognised for her extraordinary and precient contribution to social housing in France and her inspirational approach to building communities and urban planning.
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Ivry-sur-Seine
Ivry-sur-Seine
Auberviliers
Aubervilliers
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2020 winner: Cristina Iglesias
The winner of the 2022 Royal Academy architecture prize – Cristina Iglesias – invites us to look at the spaces between buildings, creating thoughtful work that rewards sustained reflection.
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Cristina Iglesias, Desde lo Subterráneo, 2017.
Cristina Iglesias, Desde lo Subterráneo, 2017.
Cristina Iglesias, Deep Fountain (Diepe Fontein), 1997.
Cristina Iglesias, Tres Aguas, 2014.
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Traffic
Vice/Virtue, Reservoir RGB
Blur Building
The High Line by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
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Suzu Performing Arts Centre, Ishikawa, Japan, 2006
Niigata Performing Arts Center, Niigata, Japan, 1998
Niigata Performing Arts Center, Niigata, Japan, 1998
Yamanashi Fruits Museum, Yamanashi, Japan, 1995
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The Royal Academy Dorfman Award
The Royal Academy Dorfman Award champions new talent in architecture. It is awarded to an architect, practice or collective who are reimagining the future of architecture and taking into consideration geographical and socio-political challenges. The four finalists present their work to the jury and the winner is awarded a £10,000 prize.
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2023 winner: Taller Gabriela Carrillo
Based in Mexico City, Gabriela Carrillo has more than 20 years of experience. Throughout her career, Carrillo has worked with local resources and questioned the briefs she receives, to create architecture that is sensitive, and reactive to the environment around it.
Collaboration has been central to her career, and since establishing her own studio in 2019 she continues to work with architects and designers around Mexico. She is part of Colectivo c733, a group of Mexican architects who are dedicated to developing high-quality public buildings, such as market halls and stadiums.
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The work of the Taller Gabriela Carrillo, winner of the 2023 Royal Academy Dorfman Award
Juzgados Orales Pátzcuaro
Casa Piedra
Muelle San Blas
Ecoparque Bacalar
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2022 winner: Wallmakers
Vinu Daniel founded the architecture firm Wallmakers in 2007. Over the past 15 years, they have engaged with sustainability in architecture in a variety of ways, from building with mud blocks to using urban waste as a material to reduce the embodied energy in construction. They are an office-less firm that is constantly on the move, looking for ways to make construction more sustainable. One of their most known projects is the IHA Residence in Trivandrum, where the use of base plates of washing machines as scrap grills is a prime example of their take on up-cycling. Other projects such as St. George Orthodox Church in Mattancherry or Pirouette House in Trivandrum showcase their use of Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks (CSEB) and how it can create an original work of contemporary architecture, maintaining a balance between innovative and utilitarian design.
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The work of Wallmakers, winner of the 2022 Royal Academy Dorfman Award
Jackfruit Garden Residence, Wallmakers
Pirouette House, Wallmakers
IHA, Residence, Wallmakers
Shila (under construction), Wallmakers
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2020 winner: BCKJ Architects
BCKJ Architects is located in Beijing, China and was founded by Dong Mei and Liu Xiaochuan in 2004. They are passionate about the environment and many of their projects, nestled into Chinese peri-urban areas, take great pains to not disturb their local settings, building around trees and only using local materials. They understand architecture as a social resource that mediates between the natural environment, communities, cultures and places.
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The work of BCKJ Architects, winner of the 2020 Royal Academy Dorfman Award
BCKJ Architects: Black Tiger Primary School, Mao County, 2010.
Black Tiger Primary School, BCKJ Architects
Clove Valley ECO-hotel
Polus International College Students Apartments
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2019 winner: Boonserm Premthada
The winner of this year’s Royal Academy Dorfman Award is Boonserm Premthada of Bangkok Project Studio. Born and raised in the heart of Bangkok, Premthada founded Bangkok Project Studio in 2003. The practice celebrates the importance of craft in architecture (often employing the skills of local craftspeople and traditional production methods) while local construction methods and materials are crucial to Premthada’s work.
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The work of Boonserm Premthada, winner of the 2019 Royal Academy Dorfman Award
Bangkok Project Studio
Bangkok Project Studio
Bangkok Project Studio
Bangkok Project Studio
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2018 winner: Alireza Taghaboni
Alireza Taghaboni, the Iranian architect and founder of nextoffice, received the inaugural Award in 2018 for his contemporary responses to traditional Iranian architecture, which takes into account climatic conditions, the economic, political and socio-cultural context of the country and peculiarities of each project’s site.
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The work of Alireza Taghaboni, winner of the 2018 Royal Academy Dorfman Award
Guyim Villa, Shiraz, Iran (2017)
Safadasht Villa, Karaj, Iran (2016)
Sharifi-ha House, Tehran, Iran (2013)
Villa for Younger Brother, Tehran, Iran (2015)
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