Title & Author:

Exhibition Road Quarter at the V&A : Making Visible The Invisible / [presented by] Amanda Levete (AL_A).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 2018.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (39 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Amanda Levete, 2018 -- Exhibition Road Quarter: A New Entrance, Courtyard & Underground Gallery For The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- A New Subterranean Gallery For Temporary Exhibitions, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- The New Entrance To The Museum On Exhibition Road, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- The Entrance To The Staircase Down To The New Gallery Space, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- The Partially Reconstructed Aston Webb Screen On Exhibition Road, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- Site Plan, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- Ground Floor Plan, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- Basement Gallery Level Floor Plan, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- Long Section, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- Short Section, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- The Courtyard At Night, With The Oculus In The Foreground, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- Ceramic Tiling In The Courtyard, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- The Blavatnik Hall Entrance, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- The Folded Plate Ceiling Of The New Underground Gallery, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- The Stairs Down To The New Gallery, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- The Stairs Down To The New Gallery With Roof Light Above, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- The Courtyard Featuring The Oculus Light & The New Cafe Building, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- The Entrance Gates With Perforated Patterns Mirroring Shrapnel Damage To The Original Aston Webb Screen, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017 -- Supporting Columns & Beams Painted International Orange, The V&A, London By Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), 2017.
Recorded in London, December 2018.

Summary:

Amanda Levete's early success was with Future Systems, the practice she ran in partnership with her then husband the late Jan Kaplický. Future System's most notable work included Selfridges department store in Birmingham (2003), and the Stirling Prize-winning Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground in London. Since founding AL_A in 2009, Levete has gone on to design The MAAT - The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon (2016), Central Embassy, a luxury shopping mall and hotel in Bangkok (2017), the London headquarters building for Sky (2016) and her most significant project to date, Exhibition Road Quarter at the Victoria & Albert Museum (2017). In this talk, Levete discusses the V&A project. She describes the technical challenge of building a new subterranean gallery below the existing building; her success in persuading English Heritage to allow her to open up the Grade I listed Aston Webb Screen to create a new entrance; a more fluid relationship between the museum and the street; her novel use of ceramic tiles to pave the new courtyard, and other devices designed to visibly express aspects of the project that might otherwise have remained concealed.

Subject:

Victoria and Albert Museum.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Levete, Amanda, 1955- narrator.

Exhibition road quarter at the Victoria and Albert