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Alejandro Zaera Polo

Architect & Educator

Alejandro Zaera-Polo is an architect and educator, and co-founder of Foreign Office Architects (FOA), a London-based office noted as one of the world's most creative design firms, integrating architecture, urban design and landscape architecture in a wide range of projects internationally. The work of FOA has been widely published and exhibited, and represented Britain at the 8th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002. The firm has been recognised by awards including the three RIBA Worldwide Awards and the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale Award.

Alejandro Zaera-Polo occupies the Berlage Chair in the Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands and is a Visiting Professor at Princeton University. Prior to this, he has served as the Dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam for four years, the Unit Master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California in LA, Columbia University in New York, Princeton University, the School of Architecture in Madrid and the Yokohama School of architecture, where he currently has an advisory role.