Amanda Levete

Amanda is a Stirling Prize winner and founder of the architects AL_A. She was awarded CBE for services to architecture, received the Jane Drew Prize, elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and was recently made a Royal Academician. Amanda is a trustee of the V&A, a regular radio and TV broadcaster, she writes for a number of publications and lectures around the world and is an internationally recognised cultural commentator.

In addition to Lord’s Media Centre and Selfridges in Birmingham, recently completed projects include two buildings for Wadham College at the University of Oxford; a centre for the cancer care charity Maggie’s in Southampton; the Victoria & Albert Museum Exhibition Road Quarter in London, the V&A’s largest building project in over 100 years; and MAAT, a Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon, commissioned by EDP, one of the world’s foremost energy companies.

Ongoing commissions include Paisley Museum in Scotland opening later this year; the reimagining of the D’Ieteren Headquarters in Brussels; a prototype fusion plant for General Fusion at Culham; the Belgrade Philharmonic Concert Hall, Serbia’s biggest cultural investment in the region to date; Central Yards shopping mall in Hong Kong and the UK Government’s STEP Fusion Complex at West Burton in the Midlands.