Amanda Levete is a Stirling Prize winner and founder of the architects AL_A.
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 2009, she founded AL_A.
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.