Livyj Bereh, from Ukraine, have won the 2024 Royal Academy Dorfman Prize, a £10,000 prize supported by the Dorfman Foundation to celebrate new ideas and practices that highlight the future potential of architecture.
Livyj Bereh were selected from a shortlist of four international practices, including b+ (Germany), Salima Naji (Morocco) and TEN (Switzerland and Serbia). The prize was decided and presented at a ceremony at the Royal Academy of Arts, following public presentations by each finalist.
We are honoured to receive this Prize and thank you for your support. For our team, it is so significant that we receive the understanding of the importance of our work and the recognition of us as a volunteering group.
Kseniia Kalmus, co-founder of Livyj Bereh and recipient of the 2024 Royal Academy Dorfman Prize,
The jury was chaired by Royal Academicians and founders of 6a architects, Tom Emerson OBE RA and Stephanie Macdonald OBE RA, an internationally recognised London practice currently leading the re-imagination of Tate Liverpool and shortlisted for the British Museum. The jury members included architect, Stéphanie Bru, of leading Paris based practice, Bruther, specialist in housing and community projects; internationally exhibited artist Goshka Macuga RA; award-winning architect Níall McLaughlin RA; Harvard Wheelwright scholar 2022, architect and researcher, Marina Otero; and former Head of Architecture and Drue Heinz Curator at the RA, Vicky Richardson.
Livyj Bereh’s repair of roofs destroyed by the war in Ukraine provides homes, schools and hospitals, delivering an essential and urgent response to the survival of communities. Their use of modest black corrugated metal roofs produces an architectural act of collective care and resistance across the country, as powerful as any civic monument and documented with the unflinching eye of the greatest war art.
Tom Emerson OBE RA and Stephanie Macdonald OBE RA, of 6a architects and Chairs of the 2024 RA Architecture Prizes Jury,
About
The Royal Academy Architecture Prize Programme Inaugurated in 2018, the prizes demonstrate the Royal Academy’s role as a global advocate for architecture, realising the RA’s mission to garner a wider appreciation and understanding of architecture’s vital relationship to culture and society. The prizes for architecture have enhanced the existing architecture programme at the Royal Academy, which includes debates, lectures, displays and new commissions to inspire the profession and deepen the public’s understanding of architecture.
The Dorfman Foundation is a charitable foundation based on the entrepreneurial success of its chair,
Sir Lloyd Dorfman CBE. Founded in 2007, its main areas of focus are the arts and culture, education,
healthcare and the Jewish community. The Foundation was a major donor to the Royal Academy for
its 250th anniversary. As part of that, it was a founding partner of the RA Architecture Prize
Programme in 2018. Sir Lloyd serves as Emeritus Trustee of the Royal Academy Trust and sits on
the boards of five other charities.
