Alejandro Zaera-Polo
| Alejandro Zaera Polo | |
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| Born | 17 October 1963 Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | AZPML Foreign Office Architects |
| Buildings | Osanbashi Yokohama International Passenger Terminal |
Alejandro Zaera Polo is a contemporary architect and founder of London and New York-based Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Maider Llaguno Architecture (AZPML). He is the former dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University and a prolific theorist, widely published in different professional media.
Alejandro Zaera-Polo was born in Madrid in 1963. He trained at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, graduating with Honors, and went on to do a Master irefn Architecture (MARCH II) at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University where he graduated with Distinction. He worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam between 1991 and 1993, prior to co-founding Foreign Office Architects in 1993 together with Farshid Moussavi. As a principal of FOA Alejandro Zaera-Polo co-authored the award-winning Yokohama International Port Terminal in Japan, after winning an international design competition in 1995. He also was part of the United Architects team, one of the finalists in the Ground Zero competition. He designed and supervised the completion of a wide range of international projects such as the Barcelona Forum Park and Auditoria, the Torrevieja Theater, the Rioja Technology Transfer Centre in Logrono, Spain, the Carabanchel Housing in Madrid, The Palace Residential Towers in Busan, Leicester High Cross and the recently completed Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. He also designed and delivered the Spanish Pavilion in the Aichi International Exhibition 2004 and the Madrid Pavilion in Expo Shanghai 2010, and represented Britain in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2002.
Alejandro Zaera Polo’s practice has produced critically acclaimed and award winning projects for the public and private sector on an international scale. He favors a pragmatic approach, embracing technical rigor in a search towards a complex and organic architecture which unfolds through a broad variety of locations and typologies.
In June 2011, after the dissolution of FOA, his first company, he established Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architecture (AZPA) renamed Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Maider Llaguno Architecture (AZPML) in August 2013, where he is working on the Redevelopment of the Birmingham New Street Station, the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championship Facilities in Santander, the Cerezales Foundation in Leon, the Locarno Palazzo del Cinema in Switzerland, the Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova en Lleida and the BioPol Science Centre in Barcelona.
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