Amanda Levete
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About
Architect who was co-partners with first husband Jan Kaplicky at Future Systems, an avant-garde design firm. She was able to make Future's off-beat designs marketable. Later became principal of Amanda Levete Architects (known as AL_A).
Before Fame
She studied at the Architectural Association, after which she was employed by Richard Rogers. She joined Future Systems in 1989.
Trivia
She was with Future when it designed the Lord's Media Centre and the Selfridges department store and won the Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize.
Family Life
She had one child with Czech architect Kaplicky before their divorce in 2006; she then married Ben Evans, director of the London Design Festival.
Associated With
She and Maya Ying Lin were both famous female architects.
