Bridgend, Wales 1955
Degrees:
St Paul’s Girls’ School, London
Hammersmith School of Art, enrolled at the Architectural Association
Currently lives and works in London
Amanda Levete, founder of the AL_A architectural firm, is one of Britain’s most creative architects.
With “Around the Corner” she created an architectural language of fluid and natural forms.
Each piece was made in a different material to show, through its peculiarities, how the perception of a shape changes according to the material in which it is conceived.
Photo: Mike Goldwater
Website:
ala.uk.com
Press:
Deezen
DesignBoom
Projects:
Victoria & Albert Museum Exhibition Road Quarter (2017) in London, the V&A’s largest building project in over 100 years; MAAT(2016), a Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon, commissioned by EDP, one of the world’s foremost energy companies; Central Embassy (2017), a 1.5 million sq ft luxury shopping mall and hotel in Bangkok on the former grounds of the British Embassy; a 13-hectare media campus and a 37,700m2 headquarters building for Sky (2016) in London; and MPavilion 2015 in Melbourne.