Alejandro Zaera-Polo

Biography

Alejandro Zaera-Polo (born 1963) is a Spanish architect and dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University. He co-founded Foreign Office Architects (FOA) with Farshid Moussavi in 1993. Their most celebrated project is the Yokohama International Passenger Terminal (1995-2002), which became a landmark of contemporary architectural practice through its innovative topographic approach to building design.