Indian architecture studio Wallmakers and its founder, Vinu Daniel, are crowned winners of the prestigious Royal Academy Dorfman Award 2022
Indian architecture studio Wallmakers and its founder, Vinu Daniel, are crowned winners of the prestigious Royal Academy Dorfman Award 2022Photography: Jino Sam, Siddharthan, Chirantan Khastgir, Akash Sharma, Sagar Kudtarkar
Wallmakers, the India architecture studio founded by Vinu Daniel, has scooped the coveted Royal Academy Dorfman Award 2022. The prestigious accolade, offered once a year to an architecture practice that represents the potential the field has through innovation and pioneering ideas, is awarded by founding partners London’s Royal Academy and The Dorfman Foundation.
‘We are supposed to protect the ecology,’ says Daniel. ‘Who am I building for? I am there daily at the site, with my workers.
‘Wallmakers’ work engages with issues raised by the climate emergency with a creative energy and urgency that will inspire architects to reconsider the impact of their work in relation to ecology and the consumer economy,’ said Moussavi. ‘Vinu Daniel began work as Wallmakers after coming to a point where he had all but rejected architectural practice as it was being taught.