For 2024 Royal Academy Dorfman Prize winner Livyj Bereh, it’s important to obtain ‘the understanding of the significance of our work and the popularity of us as a volunteering group’. The structure collective’s co-founder Kseniia Kalmus attended the winner’s announcement ceremony at London’s Royal Academy of Arts final evening (31 October) – an occasion that highlighted the Ukrainian studio’s work and necessary efforts in rebuilding houses through the ongoing conflict in its nation.
(Picture credit score: Picture courtesy of Livyj Bereh)
2024 Royal Academy Dorfman Prize winner: Livyj Bereh
Based mostly in Kyiv and initially engaged on the left financial institution of the Dnipro River (which impressed the title of the organisation – Лівийберег/Leftbank), Livyj Bereh has thus far restored the roofs of some 380 homes, throughout totally different areas in Ukraine, together with Černihiv, Kyiv and Charkiv.
Past its vital, site-specific and hands-on assist and architectural work inside Ukraine, the studio additionally spearheads exhibition tasks and occasions that assist elevate consciousness across the conflict.
(Picture credit score: Picture courtesy of Livyj Bereh)
Tom Emerson OBE RA and Stephanie Macdonald OBE RA, of 6a architects and chairs of the 2024 RA structure prizes jury, mentioned: ‘Livyj Bereh’s restore of roofs destroyed by the conflict in Ukraine offers houses, faculties and hospitals, delivering an important and pressing response to the survival of communities. Their use of modest black corrugated steel roofs produces an architectural act of collective care and resistance throughout the nation, as highly effective as any civic monument and documented with the unflinching eye of the best conflict artwork.’
Earlier winners of the Royal Academy Dorfman Prize embody Mexico-based Taller Gabriela Carrillo (2023), Wallmakers from India (2022), Beijing-based BCKJ Architects (2020), Boonserm Premthada from Bangkok (2019), and Iranian architect Alireza Taghaboni (2018).
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