Winners of Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable prizes revealed
- 1 February 2018
- London EMAP Publishing Limited 2018
British architect and founder of AL_A Amanda Levete is the winner of the 2018 Jane Drew Prize, an award recognising an architectural designer who, through their work and commitment to design excellence, has raised the profile of women in architecture.
First known as half of Future Systems, a practice she ran with her then husband Jan Kaplický and with whom she designed the Lord’s cricket ground media centre and the futuristic Birmingham Selfridges, Levete created AL_A and started her solo career less than a decade ago.
Opened respectively in 2016 and 2017, Lisbon’s Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (AR June 2017) and the V&A’s new Sainsbury Gallery in London both feature complex ceramic tiling and open public spaces, reflecting Levete’s fascination with the sensuousness of materials and her concern for the provision of social space in cities.