Amanda Levete

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Amanda Levete
File:Amanda Levete.jpg
Born (1955-11-17) November 17, 1955 (age 69)
Bridgend
Nationality British
Alma mater Architectural Association
Occupation Architect
Spouse(s)
Awards RIBA Stirling Prize
Practice AL_A
Buildings

Amanda Levete (born 17 November 1955) is a Stirling Prize-winning British architect, and principal of AL_A.

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.[2] As co-founder of the firm Powis & Levete, she was nominated for the RIBA's '40 under 40' exhibition in 1985.[3] Levete joined Jan Kaplický at Future Systems as a partner in 1989.[4]

Levete is credited with making Future Systems' organic and conceptual designs a reality.[5] 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.[6]

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.[7] AL_A's projects include the MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) project in Lisbon for the EDP[disambiguation needed] Foundation,[8] the Central Embassy project in Bangkok[9] and the pop-up restaurant Tincan.[10]

In 2014 it was announced that AL_A had been chosen to design the second M-Pavilion for the Naomi Milgrom Foundation in Melbourne.[11]

Levete is a trustee of the Young Foundation, and served as a trustee of the arts organisation Artangel from 2000 to 2013.

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.[5] Levete is now married to Ben Evans, director of the London Design Festival.[7]

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