Royal Academy Dorfman Award 2022
In 2022 the winner of the RA Dorfman Award was Wallmakers. The other nominees were Semillas, Dot Architects and Apparata.
Meet the 2022 winner and nominees
Based in India, Wallmakers was founded by Vinu Daniel in 2007. Over the past 15 years, they have engaged with sustainability in architecture.
APPARATA is an architectural practice founded in 2015 by Astrid Smitham and Nicholas Lobo Brennan. Based in London, they are known for their community work emphasising collective life and the construction of buildings as a critical practice.
dot architects is a practice based in Osaka, Japan. Founded in 2004 by Toshikatsu Ienari and Takeshi Shakushiro, they have since evolved into an office of five including Wataru Doi, Keiko Miyachi and Ai Ikeda, with a focus on the impact architecture has on the social and natural environment.
Semillas is a non-profit organization founded in Perú in 2014 by Marta Maccaglia. Consisting of an interdisciplinary team, Semillas develops architectural projects in marginalized contexts, mainly in the settlements of Lima and the rural areas of the Peruvian Amazon.
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