Nationality British Role Architect Occupation Architect | Practice AL_A Name Amanda Levete | |
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Buildings Selfridges BuildingLord's Media CentreExhibition Road extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum Spouse Jan Kaplicky (m. 1991–2006) Education Architectural Association School of Architecture People also search for Jan Kaplicky, Thomas Lord, Johanna Kaplicky, Josef Kaplicky, Eliska Kaplicky Fuchsova | ||
Organizations founded AL_A, Future Systems | ||
Amanda levete al a on the changing role of risk in architecture
Amanda Jane Levete, CBE (born 17 November 1955) is a Stirling Prize-winning British architect, and principal of AL A.
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- Amanda levete al a on the changing role of risk in architecture
- Amanda levete 2015 mpavilion architect
- Career
- Personal life
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Amanda levete 2015 mpavilion architect
Career
Levete was born in Bridgend, south Wales. She was a student at St Paul's Girls' School, London, and the Hammersmith School of Art before enrolling at the Architectural Association. Afterwards she was a trainee at Alsop & Lyall and an architect at the Richard Rogers Partnership. As co-founder of the firm Powis & Levete, she was nominated for the RIBA's '40 under 40' exhibition in 1985. Levete joined Jan Kaplický at Future Systems as a partner in 1989.
Levete is credited with making Future Systems' organic and conceptual designs a reality. Recognised as one of the UK's most innovative practices, Future Systems completed works include the Selfridges department store in Birmingham and the Lord's Media Centre, which won the Royal Institute of British Architects' Stirling Prize in 1999.
Levete formed AL A in 2009, and in 2011 the practice won the international competition to design a new entrance, courtyard and gallery for London's Victoria and Albert Museum. AL_A's projects include the MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) project in Lisbon for the EDP Foundation, the Central Embassy project in Bangkok and the pop-up restaurant Tincan.
In 2014 it was announced that AL_A had been chosen to design the second M-Pavilion for the Naomi Milgrom Foundation in Melbourne, the first to be designed by an international architect. The M-Pavilion, made from fibreglass overlapping petals, opened to the public in October 2015.
The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon opened on 5 October 2016 with a site-specific work from Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. The €20m museum sits on the River Tagus (Rio Tejo) to the west of the city centre and was described as "sinuous" and "one of Europe’s most lyrical new museums".
Levete is a trustee of the Young Foundation, and served as a trustee of the arts organisation Artangel from 2000 to 2013.
She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to architecture.
Personal life
Levete met the Czech architect Jan Kaplický in the 1980s. They married in 1991, had a son, Josef, in 1995 and divorced in 2006. Levete and Kaplický worked professionally together from 1989 to 2009. Since 2007 Levete is married to Ben Evans, director of the London Design Festival.
On 19 March 2017, Amanda Levete appeared as a castaway on the Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs.