Lunch with Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Published on November 23, 2009
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On Wednesday November 18th, the Rafael del Pino Alumni Association was pleased to organize a lunch-colloquium with Mr Alejandro Zaera-Polo (see complete profile below), founding partner of Foreign Office Architects. During the lunch, Mr. Alejandro shared with the alumni his vision of the Architecture as a social transformation power as well as the role of Spanish architects in the global market.
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Alejandro Zaera-Polo is founding partner of Foreign Office Architects together with Farshid Moussavi, and occupies currently the Berlage Chair in the Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands. Prior to this current role at the TU in Delft, he has been for four years the Dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, until 2005. Previously he has been also Unit Master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, and a Visiting Professor at the University of California in L.A., 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 an advisor to several committees, such as the Quality Commission for Architecture in Barcelona City and the advisory Committee for Urban Development of the City of Madrid and is a member of t he Urban Age Think Tank of the London School of Economics. He has published extensively as a critic in professional magazines worldwide, El Croquis, Quaderns, A+U, Arch+ and Harvard Design Magazine amongst them, and contribute to numerous publications, such as the Endeless City curated by Ricky Burdett and Dejan Sudjic.
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