Alejandro Zaera studied at the ETSAM and later graduated with a Master's Degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1991. He founded Foreign Office Architects in London in 1992, and since 2011 he has managed AZPA Ltd, following the dissolution of FOA.
Simultaneously to his architectural work, Alejandro Zaera has been a guest lecturer in the USA at Princeton, UCLA and Columbia university, and in Europe at the Berlage Institute and the ETSAM. He is currently the dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University, and was director of the Berlage Institute from 2002 to 2006. His critical and theoretical work has been published in various international publications.
-1991-92 Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-1992 Establishes Foreign Office Architects, London
-2011 Establishes AZPA Ltd in London and Barcelona.
Since July 2012, he has been Dean of the School of Architecture, Princeton University
2002-2006 Dean of the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Previous teaching experience: UCLA, USA, Columbia University, USA. Architectural Association, London, UK Princeton University, USA. Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ETS de Arquitectura of Madrid, Spain. Yokohama University, Japan.
Regular collaborator on professional journals such as El Croquis, Quaderns, A.D. A+U, Archis.
1956 Born in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
1981 Graduated from the Japan Women's University with a Master's Degree of Architecture. Joined Toyo Ito & Associates
1987 Founded Kazuyo Sejima and Associates
1988 Selected for a design contest - MCH House. Kashima Award, SD Review 1988
1989 Special Award for Residential Architecture, Tokyo Architecture Association Yosioka Award, The Japan Architect. 2nd Place, International Industrial Design Contest of the BL
1990 Honourable Mention, Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris, SD Award, 1990 SD Review
1991 2nd Place, Nasumoahara Harmony Hall Design Contest
1992 2nd Place, GID Contest '92. 2nd Place, Commercial Space Design Award. '94 Japan Institute of Architects 'Young Architect of the Year'
1994 Grand Prize, Commercial Space Design Award ’94. 'Awarded Architecture '94'
1995 3rd Place, Yokohama International Port Terminal Design Contest. Co-founded, along with Ryue Nishizawa, the firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates).
2000 Erich Schelling Architecture Award, Karlsruhe, Germany
2010 Pritzker Architecture Award.
Kayuzo has taught at several architecture schools:
• Professor at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan 2001.
• Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. 2006.
• Visiting Professor at Princeton University, USA 2006
Topic: 'MATTER:RHYTHM'
For a few years, the architectural debate was focused on the critical and theoretical possibilities of architecture; however, the discipline's approach regarding the translation techniques between architecture and other media has evolved, since it now seems appropriate to highlight the qualities of architecture as a material organisation, not as an image or as the incorporation of a certain discourse.
The object of this exercise is to reflect on this quality of architecture as a material organisation.
The architectural tour of the city of Bilbao took place on Wednesday, 18 July 2001. We had the collaboration of the architect Ignacio Intxausti, a graduate of the School of Architecture of the University of the Basque Country, as a guide.
