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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.

He was the inaugural director of the Seoul Architecture Biennale in 2017.

While serving as Dean at Princeton University, Princeton architecture was featured at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2014. Zaera-Polo abruptly left his role as Dean, after he was accused by the Princeton University President of "plagiarizing parts of a text he produced for the “Elements of Architecture” exhibition curated by Rem Koolhaas at the 2014 Venice Biennale". Architect Rem Koolhaas emailed the Biennale’s director to deny any wrongdoing by Zaera-Polo. Zaera-Polo also denied the accusations and as a result, Zaera-Polo filed a lawsuit against the school in 2016.

Alejandro Zaera-Polo has maintained in parallel an academic career. He was the Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University (2012–2014), the Dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, and the inaugural beneficiary of the Norman Foster Visiting Professorship at Yale University. Prior to that, he was a Unit Master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and has been a Visiting Critic at University of California, Los Angeles, Columbia University in New York, the School of Architecture in Madrid and the Yokohama School of Architecture.

In June 2011, after the dissolution of FOA, he established Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architecture (AZPA) renamed Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Maider Llaguno Architecture (AZPML).

He worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam between 1991 and 1993. In 1993, he co-founded Foreign Office Architects with his ex-wife Farshid Moussavi. The "Foreign" in the company's name referred to the principal's' heritage, with Zaera–Polo hailing from Spain and Moussavi from Iran. The company produced architectural projects in Japan, the United States, the Netherlands and Spain.

Alejandro Zaera-Polo was born in Madrid, Spain on 17 October 1963. He trained at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, and after graduating he left Spain in 1989. Zaera-Polo went on to do a Master in Architecture (MARCH II) at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. It was at Harvard University he met architect, Farshid Moussavi.