Future Systems

Future Systems - 1999 Stirling prize Winners for their extraordinary NatWest Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground - has emerged as one of the most dynamic and unusual architecture and design practices in the UK.

Future Systems, headed by Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete, creates visionary designs in which sustainability is the key to an intelligent architecture for the new millennium. Their creations are as technologically advanced and visually brilliant as they are environmentally sensitive. From the early capsule houses to their vast free form structures, Future Systems' work is characterised by a radical aesthetic combined with a groundbreaking approach to energy-efficient and non-polluting technologies.

In 1999 Cube, in association with the ICA, invited Future Systems to design their own exhibition at Cube - one that reflects their signature style of techno-organic forms combined with unusual colours and materials.

At Cube a bright pink carpet covered the floor of galleries 1 & 2. A range of 33 models were placed on 3 giant, floating islands - organic, fluorescent, yellow forms hovering above a sea of pink. In additions 150 A3 drawings, sketches and photographs mounted on the walls provided an amplification and explanation of the work.

The exhibition focused on the three-dimensionality and organic nature of Future Systems' work, design aspects which are fundamental to their thinking and approach.