Future Systems was a London architecture and design practice founded in 1979 by the Czech architect Jan Kaplický and David Nixon. Through the 1980s it was known mainly for experimental, largely unbuilt designs drawing on aerospace and car engineering and on forms found in nature, above all the curved monocoque shells of aircraft, cars and boats. Amanda Levete became a partner in 1989, and the practice moved towards built work, starting with the Hauer-King House in Islington (1994). Kaplický and Levete divided the firm in 2008; Kaplický kept the name and died in Prague in January 2009, after which Future Systems ceased.
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The Lord's Media Centre in London (1999) has an aluminium semi-monocoque body made with boat- and aircraft-building methods; it won the 1999 Stirling Prize. The Selfridges Building, Birmingham (2003) wraps a street corner in a curved façade of 15,000 anodised aluminium discs on a blue ground, an example of what became known as blobitecture. The Museo Enzo Ferrari in Modena (2012) adds a 6,000-square-metre gallery of Ferrari cars beside the house and workshop of Enzo Ferrari's father.
