Jan Kaplický state and you can't separate the two." Jan Kaplický Jan Kaplický (; ; 18 April 1937 – 14 January 2009) was a world-renowned Neofuturistic Czech architect who spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom. He was the leading architect behind the innovative design office, Future Systems. He was best known for the neofuturistic Selfridges Building in Birmingham, England, and the Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground in London. Jan Kaplický, the only child of a sculptor and a botanical illustrator, was born on 18 April 1937 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and grew up in a suburb of
Jan Gratama in the style of the Amsterdam School. His partners in his architect bureau were Gerrit Versteeg from 1914 and Jan Willem Dinger from 1930, who continued the bureau after Gratama died in 1947. Jan Gratama Jan Gratama (16 August 1877 – 12 December 1947), was a Dutch architect. He was born in Groningen and was the younger brother of the artist and museum director Gerrit David Gratama. He studied at the Polytechnical School of Delft and became an amateur portrait artist like his older brother. He was an artistic advisor to his sister Lina, who also became a portrait artist,