Cris Ballester Parets awarded 2024 RA architecture prize

Salvador Espiru 39, 8 Social Housing Units – Palma, Mallorca. courtesy El Croquis, photograph Jesús Granada (2)

Source: Jesús Granada, courtesy of El Croquis

Award recognises bioregional social housing on the Balearic Islands

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) has announced that Cris Ballester Parets has been awarded the 2024 Royal Academy Architecture Prize. Now in its sixth year, the prize – supported by the Dorfman Foundation – recognises Ballester Parets for her work in bioregional sustainable social housing in the Balearic Islands.

The jury noted: “The 2024 RA Architecture Prize has been awarded to Cris Ballester Parets, representing a remarkable, collective research and production of bioregional social housing on the Balearic Islands undertaken between 2019-23. The collective was necessarily wide-ranging and cross-disciplinary.

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