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词条 Amanda Levete
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  1. Training

  2. Career

  3. Awards

  4. Personal life

  5. References

  6. External links

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| practice = AL A
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Amanda Jane Levete CBE (born 17 November 1955) is a Stirling Prize-winning British architect,[2] and principal of AL_A.

Training

Originally from Bridgend, south Wales, Levete was a student at St Paul's Girls' School, London and the Hammersmith School of Art, enrolled at the Architectural Association[3]became a trainee at Alsop & Lyall and an architect at the Richard Rogers Partnership.[4] As co-founder of the firm Powis & Levete, she was nominated for the RIBA's '40 under 40' exhibition in 1985.[5] Levete joined Jan Kaplický at Future Systems as a partner in 1989,[6] served as a trustee of the arts organization Artangel from 2000 to 2013, and is a trustee of the Young Foundation.

Career

Levete is credited with making the Future Systems' organic and conceptual designs a reality.[7] Recognised as one of the UK's most innovative practices, Future Systems completed works include the Selfridges department store in Birmingham[3] and the Lord's Media Centre, which won the Royal Institute of British Architects' Stirling Prize in 1999.[8]

Levete formed AL_A (formerly known as Amanda Levete Architecture) 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,[3][11] which features a porcelain courtyard.[3] AL_A's projects include the MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) project in Lisbon for the EDP Foundation,[3][9] the Central Embassy project in Bangkok,[3][10] 10 Hill's Place in London[3][11] and the pop-up restaurant Tincan.[12]

In 2014 AL_A was chosen to design the second MPavilion for the Naomi Milgrom Foundation in Melbourne[13], the first to be designed by an international architect.[14] The M-Pavilion, made from fibreglass overlapping petals, opened to the public in October 2015.[15]

The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon opened on 5 October 2016 with 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"[16] and "one of Europe's most lyrical new museums".[17] Also in 2016, AL_A completed the 13-hectare media campus headquarters building for Sky Central project in London central in London.[18]

Awards

In the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours Amanda Levete was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), for services to architecture.[19]

In 2018, Levete was awarded the Jane Drew Prize by The Architects’ Journal and The Architectural Review.[20][21]

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.[7] Since 2007 Levete has been married to Ben Evans, director of the London Design Festival.[22]

On 19 March 2017, Amanda Levete appeared as a castaway on the Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs.[23]

References

1. ^{{citation|url=http://www.building.co.uk/absent-friends/3097258.article|title=Absent friends|work=Building|date=12 October 2007|subscription=yes}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dsdha.co.uk/gridfs/5756b92400dd7c0003000024|publisher=Architectural Digest|author=Nonie Niesewand|date=March 2015|title=Through the Glass Ceiling}}
3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite journal|last1=Phillips|first1=Christine|title=Amanda Levete: organic forms and material complexity|journal=Architecture Australia|date=2015|volume=104|issue=1|page=108-110|url=https://architectureau.com/articles/amanda-levete/|accessdate=10 March 2018}}
4. ^{{citation|url=http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/amanda-levete-the-social-networker/8670158.article|title=Amanda Levete: the social networker|date=25 September 2014|work=Architects' Journal|accessdate=15 October 2015|subscription=yes}}
5. ^{{citation|url=http://www.bdonline.co.uk/out-of-time-amanda-levete/5016074.article|title=Out of time: Amanda Levete|date=1 April 2011|work=Building Design|accessdate=15 October 2015|subscription=yes}}
6. ^{{citation|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/oct/17/architecture|first=Robert|last=Booth|date=17 October 2008|title=From a shining future to a bitter end as 'blob' architecture pioneers part company|work=The Guardian|accessdate=15 October 2015}}
7. ^1 {{citation|last=Grice|first=Elizabeth|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4968429/My-greatest-regret-is-that-I-didnt-make-peace-with-him-in-life.html|title='My greatest regret is that I didn't make peace with him in life'|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=11 March 2009|accessdate=24 October 2011}}
8. ^{{citation|title=Jan Kaplicky, a visionary, dies|work=Architectural Record|date=March 2009|page=27}}
9. ^{{citation|url=http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/architecture/articles/2013/september/20/amanda-levete-puts-on-a-show-in-lisbon/|title=Amanda Levete puts on a show in Lisbon|publisher=Phaidon|accessdate=15 October 2015}}
10. ^{{citation|url=http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/26/central-embassy-by-amanda-levete-architects/|title=Central Embassy by Amanda Levete Architects|date=26 March 2009|work=de zeen|accessdate=15 October 2015}}
11. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.archdaily.com/34887/10-hills-place-amanda-levete-architects|title=10 Hills Place / Amanda Levete Architects|last=|first=|date=10 September 2009|website=Arch Daily|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
12. ^{{citation|first=James|last=Haldane|date=18 September 2014|url=http://www.architectural-review.com/design/does-what-it-says-on-the-tin-amanda-levetes-tincan-restaurant/8669870.article|title=Does what it says on the tin: Amanda Levete's Tincan Restaurant|work=The Architectural Review|accessdate=15 October 2015|subscription=yes}}
13. ^{{Cite journal|last=Kalms|first=Nicole|date=2016|title=Cultivated architecture: 2015 MPavilion|url=https://architectureau.com/articles/2015-mpa|journal=Architecture Australia|volume=105|issue=2|pages=24-28|via=}}
14. ^{{citation|url=http://www.dezeen.com/2015/07/10/amanda-levete-ala-architects-forest-canopy-design-melbourne-mpavilion/|title=Amanda Levete unveils forest canopy design for second Melbourne MPavilion|date=10 July 2015|work=de zeen|accessdate=15 October 2015}}
15. ^{{citation|last=Mairs|first=Jessica|title=Amanda Levete's tree canopy-like MPavilion opens in Melbourne|date=5 October 2015|url=https://www.dezeen.com/2015/10/05/amanda-levete-architects-mpavilion-queen-victoria-gardens-melbourne-australia-fibreglass-forest-petals/|work=de zeen}}
16. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/oct/06/maat-lisbon-museum-amanda-levete-architect|title='The hotspot of hotspots': Amanda Levete's €20m Lisbon museum opens with a sinuous swoosh|last=Wainwright|first=Oliver|date=6 October 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|issn=0261-3077|access-date=21 October 2016}}
17. ^{{Cite news|url=http://europe.newsweek.com/maat-new-museum-lisbon-amanda-levete-501621?rm=eu|title= A New Museum in Lisbon Pushes the barriers of Art, Architecture and Light|last=Glancey|first=Jonathan|date=22 September 2016|newspaper=Newsweek|language=en-GBaccess-date=2016-11-16}}
18. ^Skye Central Project in London by AL_A
19. ^{{London Gazette|issue=61962|supp=y|page=B9|date=17 June 2017}}
20. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/amanda-levete-awarded-jane-drew-prize/10027671.article?blocktitle=NEW-HOMEPAGE-BIG-PIC&contentID=19632|title=Amanda Levete awarded Jane Drew Prize|last=Mollard|first=Manon|date=1 February 2018|website=The Architects Journal|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
21. ^{{Cite web|url=https://architectureau.com/articles/amanda-levete-wins-2018-jane-drew-prize/|title=Amanda Levete wins 2018 Jane Drew Prize|last=Cheng|first=Linda|date=6 February 2018|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
22. ^1 {{citation|last=Jeffries|first=Stuart|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/apr/09/amanda-levete-architecture-practice|title=The Saturday interview: architect Amanda Levete|work=The Guardian|date=9 April 2011|accessdate=15 October 2015}}
23. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08j9h6g|title=Amanda Levete, Desert Island Discs – BBC Radio 4|publisher=BBC|accessdate=16 April 2017}}

External links

  • ala.uk.com
  • future-systems.com
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