Biography
Born in 1963 in Spain. Educated at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and University College in London.

Positions
Principal of Foreign Office Architects.
Mr. 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.
He has also been a member of the Quality Commission for Architecture in Barcelona City and the Advisory Committee for Urban Development of the City of Madrid. Alejandro Zaera-Polo is a member of the Urban Age Think Tank of the London School of Economics and has published extensively in professional magazines worldwide including El Croquis, Quaderns, A+U, Volume, Log, Arch+, Harvard Design Magazine and "The Endless City" curated by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic.
www.berlage-institute.nl/videos/byperson/alejandro_zaera_polo
http://c-lab.columbia.edu/images/0128.pdf
www.archinect.com/forum/threads.php?id=33493_0_42_0_C

Foreign Office Architects
Foreign Office Architects was established in 1993. The company is 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. Projects of FOA has been widely published and exhibited.

www.f-o-a.net

Awards

2009	RIBA Award for John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex Conde Nast Traveller Innovation & Design Award for Retail for John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex
2008	BCSC Gold Award for Highcross (John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex) RIBA European Award for Carabanchel Social Housing BD Retail Architect of the Year Award European Business Award for the Environment for Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex ULI Award for Excellence for Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex Prime Property Award for Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex ArkiPARC Award for Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex
2007	Architectural Digest, Spain – Architect of the Year Award
2006	RIBA Worldwide Award for Dulnyouk Publishers in Paju, Korea
2005	Charles Jencks Award RIBA Worldwide Award for Spanish Pavilion in Aichi
2004	9th Venice Architecture Biennale Topography Award for the Novartis Park Project, Switzerland RIBA Worldwide Award for Yokohama International Port Terminal International Elevator Design Prize for Yokohama International Port Terminal
2003	Enric Miralles Prize for Architecture, for the Yokohama International Port Terminal. Kanagawa Prize for Architecture for the Yokohama International Port Terminal, Japan
1999	FX International Interior Design Awards for Best Leisure Venue
1997	Virtual House, sponsored by ANY Corporation, USA. Joint Prize

Exhibitions

2008	Featured in Future, Non-Future at the Architecture Association in London Featured in Skin+Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture in London, Tokyo and Los Angeles
2007	Featured in Love & Money- the Best of British Design Now, a British Council exhibition which toured Tokyo, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan and Korea. FOA retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
2006	Hypothetical Slide House as part of Carsten Holler’s Unilever Series at the Tate Modern, London UK. Design of Future City Exhibition at the Barbican, London, UK
2005	Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape, MoMA New York, USA Monographic show on FOA, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, USA Monographic show on FOA in Bratislava, Slovakia
2004	Tall Buildings Exhibition, MOMA, New York, USA 9th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Italy
2003	FOA’s Growing Architecture at the ICA, London, UK Institut pour la ville en mouvement, Paris, France FOA’s Phylogenesis,Museum fur angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna, Austria Architecture + Water, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
2002	United Architects at the World Financial Centre, NY, USA Latent Utopias, Graz, Austria FOA’s Phylogenesis at TNProbe Gallery, Tokyo, Japan British Pavilion at the International Architectural Biennale in Venice, Italy A New WTC, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
2001	Space Invaders, Lisbon, Portugal Great Expectations at the Central Station, New York, USA Un(private) houses, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
2000	Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA The van Alen Institute, New York (March 2001). Kortrijk Biennial, Belgium International Architectural Biennial in Venice, Italy
1999	Cities on the Move at the Hayward Gallery, London Strange New World in Glasgow, UK Archilab in Orleans, France FOA YIPT at the Ministerio de Fomento, Madrid, Spain
1998	Exhibited at the Design Museum, London, UK Exhibited at Swedish Museum of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden
1997	Critical Projects at the Architecture Centre of the RIBA New Landscapes at the Museum of Contemporary Arts Barcelona, Spain Virtual Architecture at Tokyo University Gallery, Japan Cyber Architecture in Imagina, Monaco
1996	Korean Pavilion at the 6th International Architectural Biennial in Venice, Italy Architecture on the Horizon at the RIBA, London UIA conference at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Barcelona, Spain
1995	Monolithic Architecture at the Heinz Architectural Center, Pittsburgh, USA FOA: Work in Progress at the Architectural Association Gallery, London, UK