Royal Academy Dorfman Award: finalist presentations and live judging
Royal Academy Architecture Awards Week
Wednesday 4 July 2018 2.30 - 6pm
The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
£35, £20 concessions (a combined ticket is available for the lecture and the Royal Academy Dorfman Awards Judging). Includes drinks reception in the Collections Gallery from 6.15pm
The Royal Academy Architecture Awards are generously supported by the Dorfman Foundation
See the finalists of the Royal Academy Dorfman Award - architects from Colombia, Ethiopia, Iran, Japan and the Netherlands - present their work in front of our esteemed judging panel and be the first to hear who has won the new prize.
In this special afternoon event, the finalists of the Royal Academy Dorfman Award will present their work and practices to our judges, including architects Louisa Hutton RA and Richard Rogers RA, Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design Mohsen Mostafavi, BBC broadcaster Razia Iqbal, artist Conrad Shawcross RA and critic and curator Joseph Grima.
From a collective encouraging community building in Bogotá to a woman architect mentoring the next generation in Ethiopia, the shortlist displays the different nature of architecture being produced around the world. It will bring to the fore unusual and highly sophisticated work that ranges from the social to the political and the very architectural to the technical.
The shortlisted architects are:
• Anne Holtrop, Founder, Studio Anne Holtrop (The Netherlands and Bahrain)
• Rahel Shawl, Founder, RAAS Architects (Ethiopia)
• Arquitectura Expandida (Colombia)
• Alireza Taghaboni, Founder, nextoffice (Iran)
• Go Hasegawa, Founder, Go Hasegawa and Associates (Japan)
The live judging will be followed by a panel discussion with academics, architects and cultural commentators examining architecture in a global context.
The day will conclude with the announcement of the winner of the Royal Academy Dorfman Award and the presentation of the £10,000 prize.
The event will be followed by a drinks reception in the Royal Academy’s Collections Gallery.
The architects shortlisted for the Royal Academy Dorfman Award
Rahel Shawl is founder and director of one of the leading architectural practices in Ethiopia as well as a role model, advisor and mentor for emerging architects.
Born and educated in Ethiopia, she co-founded Abba Architects in 1992, founded Raas Architects in 2004 and co-founded Equinox Property Developers in 2012.
Anne Holtrop founded his practice Studio Anne Holtrop in the Netherlands in 2009 and he now also has an office in Murharraq, Bahrain.
His work ranges from models to temporary spaces, exhibitions and buildings. He designed Bahrain’s pavilion at the World EXPO2015 in Milan.
Arquitectura Expandida is a design collective based in Bogotá, Colombia that builds structures of public assembly for communities that cannot afford to go through official channels for design and construction.
Founded by Ana Lopez Ortego, Harold Guyaux, Randy Orjuela, Marina Tejedor, and Felipe González, the collective was formed in 2010.
Go Hasegawa founded his firm Go Hasegawa and Associates in 2005, just three years after graduating from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
His many houses explore the merging of outdoor and indoor space.
Iranian architect and painter Alireza Taghaboni has been a practicing architect since 2004 and founded nextoffice in 2009.
Based in Tehran, nextoffice's projects range from detached single-family houses to urban master plans and residential, commercial and mixed-use large-scale complexes.