AN ARCHITECTURE OF OPTIMISM. Amanda Levete CBE is a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize winning architect and founder and principal of AL_A, an international award-winning architecture studio in London. Since its formation in 2009, AL_A has refined an intuitive and strategic approach to design and urban thinking.

"There's only one thing in life that you cannot design, and that is heritage."

"We are using architecture to message the technological optimism of fusion."

"A historic context has this built-in resistance that forces you to think in a certain way."