Future Systems
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| Future Systems | |
 Selfridges exterior detail, Birmingham |
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| Practice Information | |
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| Name | Future Systems |
| Key architects | Jan Kaplický Amanda Levette |
| Principle offices in | London, England United Kingdom |
| Founded | |
| Work | |
| Significant Buildings | Selfridges (2003) |
| Awards and Prizes | Stirling Prize (1999) |
Future Systems is a London-based architectural and design practice, headed by the couple, Jan Kaplický and Amanda Levete toghether with Associate Directors Andrea Morgante and John O'Mara.
Future Systems shared many of their founding principals with the British High Tech architects Rogers, Renzo Piano and Foster. However, Future Systems tended towards more radical, less 'machine aesthetic' buildings that were no less high tech. Often boat-building was more of an influence than traditional construction engineering.
During the 1980s, the firm produced many, critically acclaimed designs, which were never realised, thus leading to the firm being dubbed by Vogue Magazine, “the best architects never built.”
High profile projects include the Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground and the Selfridges department store in Birmingham.
The Selfridges store forms part of the redeveloped Bull Ring shopping centre on the edge of the city centre. It is the only part of the new development designed by a separate architects and makes a striking contribution to Birmingham's cityscape. Part of the early twenty-first century movement towards amorphous, organic shapes sometimes referred to as 'blobitecture', it should be compared to Peter Cook's Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria.
[edit] References
- Pawley, Martin (1993). Future Systems: The Story of Tomorrow. London: Phaidon Press. ISBN 0-7148-2767-3.
Future Systems by Deyan Sudjic, Phaidon Press, ISBN-10: 0714844691
[edit] External links
- Future Systems Official website
- Future Systems at the archINFORM database
- Amanda Levete Interview
- Amanda Levete Interview (Video)
 The Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground |
 Selfridges, department store, Birmingham |
 Selfridges from a distance |
 Selfridges, Interior |
| Stirling Prize Laureates | |
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| Stephen Hodder (1996) • Michael Wilford (1997) • Foster and Partners (1998) • Future Systems/Buro Happold (1999) • Alsop/Störmer (2000) • Wilkinson Eyre/Buro Happold (2001) • Wilkinson Eyre/Gifford (2002) • Herzog & de Meuron (2003) • Foster and Partners/Arup (2004) • EMBT/RMJM (2005) • Richard Rogers (2006) |
