Amanda Levete

Amanda Levete is a Stirling Prize winner and founder of the architects AL_A.

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 the renovation and expansion of Paisley Museum in Scotland; the reimagining of the D’Ieteren Headquarters in Brussels; a prototype fusion plant for clean energy firm General Fusion at Culham and the Belgrade Philharmonic Concert Hall in Serbia which represents the biggest cultural investment in the region to date.

Amanda trained at the Architectural Association and worked for Richard Rogers before joining Future Systems as a partner in 1989, where she realised ground-breaking buildings including the Media Centre at Lord’s Cricket Ground and Selfridges department store in Birmingham.

In 2017, Amanda was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours list and awarded a CBE for services to architecture. In 2018 she was awarded the Jane Drew Prize and in 2019 she was 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.