| Future Systems | |
|---|---|
 Exterior detail of the Selfridges Building, Birmingham | |
| Practice information | |
| Key architects | Jan Kaplický David Nixon Amanda Levete |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Location | London, England, UK |
| Significant works and honors | |
| Buildings | Lord's Media Centre; Selfridges Building; Bull Ring; Malator; Ferrari Museum, Modena |
| Projects | National Library, Prague |
| Design | Green Bird, London |
| Awards | Stirling Prize (1999) |
Future Systems was a London-based architectural and design practice, formerly headed by Directors Jan Kaplický and Amanda Levete.
Future Systems was founded by Kaplický and David Nixon after working with Denys Lasdun, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, and Richard Rogers in 1979. The work of Future Systems can be classified within the British high-tech architects as either bionic architecture or amorphous, organic shapes sometimes referred to as "blobitecture". "Compared to his peers, Kaplicky was the avant-garde incarnate, relentlessly pursuing the new new thing, refusing to settle into some predictable, and comfortable, architectural niche."[1]
- ^ "Jan Kaplicky, a visionary, dies" Architectural Record, March 2009, p.27