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Amanda Levete
- Site : www.ala.uk.com
- Adresse : 14A Brewery Road N7 9NH London
Amanda Levete CBE is a RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect and founder and principal of AL_A, an international award-winning architecture studio.
Since its formation in 2009, AL_A has refined an intuitive and strategic approach to design. Collaborating with ambitious and visionary clients, we develop designs that are conceptualised as urban projects not just buildings and projects that express the identity of an institution, a city or a nation. Recently completed projects include the 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 masterplan and a 37,700m2 headquarters building for Sky (2016) in London; and MPavilion 2015 in Melbourne.
Ongoing commissions around the world include the transformation of the flagship Galleries Lafayette department store on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris; a new centre for the cancer care charity Maggie’s in Southampton; two new buildings for Wadham College at the University of Oxford; the renovation and expansion of Paisley Museum; The Courtyard, a series of community mixed-use developments on 39 sites across Moscow; and the Monte St Angelo subway station in Naples.
For over a decade, Levete was a trustee of both leading social innovation centre the Young Foundation and the influential arts organisation Artangel. She is a regular radio and TV broadcaster, writes for a number of publications including the New Statesman and Prospect and lectures throughout the world. She is a Visiting Professor and formerly a MArch tutor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. In 2017 Levete was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours list and made a CBE for services to architecture and in 2018, was awarded the Jane Drew Prize.
Levete 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.
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Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT)
MAAT, the new Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology is a low-slung, south facing building on the banks of the River Tagus in Lisbon, Portugal. The building is the centrepiece of the EDP Foundation masterplan for an art campus that includes the repurposed Central Tejo power station.
MAAT complements the historic Central Tejo and preserves views of the waterfront both to and from the historic district of Belém. Blending structure into landscape, the kunsthalle is designed to allow people to walk over, under and through the building.
MAAT is an urban project as much as a cultural one. Over 7,000m² of new public space has been created, with the moleanos limestone roof becoming an outdoor room, a physical and conceptual reconnection of the river to the city’s heart. The building helps to reconcile a riverfront cut off from the city by making a literal connection with a new footbridge over road and rail as well as a metaphorical link.
Building on Lisbon’s rich tradition of craft and ceramics, the building’s textured façade is composed of almost 15,000 three-dimensional crackle-glazed tiles, capturing the ever-changing southern light.
Inside, people are guided down a sweeping ramp with an exquisitely curved lioz stone handrail that circles around the Oval Gallery, a 1,200m2 column free exhibition space. Surrounding this is the large daylit Main Gallery and two smaller spaces for installations and projections.
Construction took place over 2.5 years on reclaimed land, entailing a significant excavation and engineering challenge to realise a building that is partially below the water table.
This privately funded museum welcomed 550,000 visitors in its inaugural year. Completed on a €20m budget, the museum has been a catalyst for the rehabilitation of the Tagus riverfront and helped to put Lisbon on the map as an art and culture destination.
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