Alejandro Zaera-Polo

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ALEJANDRO ZAERA-POLO, Dipl. Arch (Hons), M ARCH II, RIBA
Director AZPA
FORMACIÓN ACADÉMICA
Master in Architecture with Distinction,
MArchII, Graduate School of Design,
Harvard University.
Licenciado en Arquitectura, (Hon.) en la
Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura
de Madrid, E.T.S.A.M.
Colegiado en el COAM con el nº 8.738.
Registro en la Arcuk (Architects
Registration Council of the United
Kingdom) con el nº 059244G
AFILIACIONES
Member, RIBA, ARB
PREMIOS + MENCIONES
1er Premio Concurso Biopol, Barcelona
España. 2010
1er Premio Sede para la Fundación
Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, León,
España. 2010
1er Premio en el concurso para la nueva
Lonja Pesquera en Pasaia. 2009
1 st Prize for the Institute of Legal Medicine
Competition, Madrid, Spain 2006
1 st Prize for the West Quay III Residential
& Commercial Development Competition,
Southampton, UK, 2006
1 st Prize for Residences for Artists and
Researchers Competition, Ille Seguin,
Paris, France, 2006
1 st Prize for the World Business Centre
Competition, Busan, Korea, 2006
RIBA Worldwide Award for Dulnyouk
Publishers. 2006
Charles Jencks Award 2005
RIBA Worldwide Award 2005 Spanish
Pavilion Aichi International Exhibition
2005 in Aichi, Japan
1 st Prize for the Uemraniye Retail
Complex, Istanbul
1 st Prize for the Ravensbourne College of
Art & Design, London
1 st Prize for the Minories Office Complex,
London
Biennale Venezia 9e, Topography Prize
for Novartis Park and Parking, Basel,
Switzerland
1 st prize for the Spanish Pavilion Aichi
International Exhibition 2005 competition,
Aichi, Japan
Eric Miralles Prize for Architecture, for the
Yokohama International Port Terminal,
Madrid, 2003
Shortlisted finalist for the WTC Ground
Zero Competition, NY, USA, 2002
Winning Entry South Bank Centre
International Design Competition, London,
2001
Winning entry Barcelona South-Eastern
Park and Auditoriums International
Design Competition, 2000
FX International Interior Design Awards
for Best Leisure Venue, 1999
2 nd prize for the Redevelopment of Link
Quay Waterfront, International
Competition, Tenerife,1998
Alejandro Zaera estudia en la ETSAM y posteriormente un Master en la
Harvard Graduate School of Design en 1991. Junto a Farshid Moussavi funda
en Londres Foreign Office Architects en 1992. Tras la disolucion de FOA,
funda AZPA Ltd (Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architecture)
Paralelamente a su trabajo arquitectónico, Alejandro Zaera ha sido docente
invitado en los EUA en las universidades de Princeton, Los Angeles y
Columbia, y en Europa en el Berlage Institute y ETSAM. Actualmente es el
decano del Berlage Institute. Su trabajo crítico y teórico ha sido publicado en
diversas publicaciones internacionales.
Trayectoria Profesional
-1991-92 Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-1992 Establece Foreign Office Architects, Londres
-2011 Establece Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architecture, Londres y Barcelona
Trayectoria Académica
2002-2006 Decano del Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, Holanda
Docencia previa:
UCLA, USA,
Columbia University, USA
Architectural Association, London, UK
Princeton University, USA
Berlage, Amsterdam, Holanda
ETS de Architectura de Madrid, España
Trabajo teórico y de crítica
Colaborador en escritos críticos con El Croquis, Quaderns, A.D. y otras
publicaciones de Arquitectura.
PRÁCTICA PROFESIONAL
EDIFICIOS TERMINADOS:
Terminal portuaria internacional, Yokohama, Japan
CLIENTE: Port & Harbour Bureau, City of Yokohama, Japan
£150 million project
Comisaria de policia de La Villa Joyosa, Spain
CLIENTE: Ayuntamiento de Villajoyosa
Total area: 2.000m2. Completed 2004
Blue Moon Aparthotel, Groningen, Netherlands
Blue Moon Tent, Groningen, Netherlands
CLIENTE: City of Groningen, The Netherlands
Total area Aparthotel: 200m2; Total area Tent: 700m2
Completed: August 2001
Hutchison 3G Head offices, London
CLIENTE: Hutchison 3G UK, London
Prototype completion: 2002
New Belgo Restaurant London, UK
CLIENTE: Belgo Group Plc
Total area: 540m2.
Construction cost: € 2.4 million / £1.7 million; Completed: March 1999
New Belgo Restaurant New York, USA
CLIENTE: Belgo Group Plc
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2 nd prize for the Meyong-Dong Cathedral
of Seoul, S. Korea Competition, 1997
Winning entry Yokohama International
Port Terminal Design Competition, 1995
PUBLICACIONES
Monographs
‘FOA’s Ark_Evolving Container for the
Proliferating Singularities’ Korean
Architecture and Culture Magazine,
December 2004
‘FOA Recent Projects’
Published as 2G, No. 16
Barcelona, Spain 2001
‘The Yokohama Project’
A monograph by Actar
Barcelona, Spain 2002
ElCroquis No 136
Madrid, Spain 2003
‘Phylogenesis: Foa’s ark’
Published by Actar
Barcelona, Spain 2003
EXPOSICIONES
2006
Featured in ‘Skin+Bones: Parallel
Practices in Fashion and Architecture’,
MOCA LA, USA
Contributed to Carsten Holler’s Unilever
Series Show at the Tate Modern, with the
‘Hypothetical Slide House’ project,
London UK
Design of ‘Future City Exhibition’ Barbican
Art Gallery, London, UK
2005
Groundswell: Constructing the
Contemporary Landscape, MoMA New
York, USA
Monographic show, Harvard University,
Graduate School of Design, USA
Monographic show, Bratislava, Slovakia
2004
Monographic show, Fargfabriken Center
for Contemporary Art and architecture in
Stockholm, Sweden
2003
Phyolgenesis at the Museum fur
Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna
Monographic Show at the Institute of
Contemporary Art (ICA), London
2002
Latent Utopias, Graz, Austria
TNProbe Monographic Show, Tokyo,
Japan
British Pavilion at the 8 th 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,
Total area: 490m2. Construction cost: € 2.2 m / $ 1.9m;
Completed: February 1999
Parque de los auditorios, Barcelona, Spain
CLIENTE: Ayuntamiento de barcelona
Total area 50.000m2. Construction completion: 2004
Spanish Pavilion Aichi International Exhibition 2005, Aichi, Japan
CLIENTE: SEEI (Sociedad Española de exposiciones internacionales)
Area: 2,400m2, Budget: Euros 12M. Completed: March 2005
Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju City, Korea.
CLIENTE: Dulnyouk Publishers based in Seoul
Total area: 3.000m2.
Construction cost: $2,5m.
Teatro y auditorio, Torrevieja
CLIENTE: Ayuntamiento de Torrevieja
Total area: 4.500m2. Completed: 2006
VPO Carabanchel, Madrid, Spain
CLIENTE: Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda
Total Area: 9000m2; Budget: €5.5 M Completion date: 2007.
Centro Tecnológico de La Rioja, La Rioja, Spain
CLIENTE: Gobierno autonómico de La Rioja
Total Area: 4,000m2 , Budget: €14 M. Construction to be completed: 2007
Villa en Pedralbes, Barcelona, Spain
CLIENTE: Privado
Private residence of 500m2; Completion date 2008
New Shires Development, Leicester, UK
CLIENTE: Hammerson Plc
Department Store, Cineplex and Pedestrian Bridges, Leicester
Total area: 34,000m2. Budget £44m; Completion date: 2008
Umraniye Retail complex and multiplex, Istanbul, Turkey
CLIENTE: Metro Group AG
Total Area : 55,000m2, Completion date : 2007
Hadspen Gardens, Sommerset, UK
CLIENTE: Nial Hobhouse
Total Area : 3,000m2, Completion date : 2007
Barcelona Zona Franca Office Park.
CLIENTE: Habitat
Total Area: 40,000m2
Completion date: 2009; Budget: €110M
Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, London, UK
CLIENTE: Ravensbourne College of Art and Design
Total area: 20,000m2; Completion date: 2011
Pabellón de Madrid de la Expo de Shangai
CLIENTE: Madrid Global
Total area: 20,000m2; Completion date: 2010
EN CONSTRUCCION:
Instituto de Medicina legal, Madrid, Spain
CLIENTE : Campus de la Justicia
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Spain
The Van Alen Institute, New York
Total Area : 14,000 m2 Completion date : tbc
2000
Museum of Modern Art, New York , USA
Kortrijk Biennial, Belgium
International Architectural Biennale in
Venice, Italy
1999
‘Cities on the Move’ at the Hayward
Gallery, London
‘Strange New World’ in Glasgow, UK
‘Archilab’ in Orleans, Fran
‘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 Royal Institute of British
Architects
‘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 Royal
Institute of British Architects, London
UIA conference at the Museum of
Contemporay Arts in Barcelona, Spain
1995
‘Monolithic Architecture’ at the Heinz
Architectural Center, Pittsburgh, USA
‘Work in Progress’ Architectural
Association Gallery, London, UK
EN PROYECTO:
Mahler4, Amsterdam, Netherlands
CLIENTE: Mahler4 Consortium Amsterdam
Total area of 11.000m2 for offices and housing.
T’Raboes Harbor facilities, Amersfoort, The Netherlands,
CLIENTE: Schipper Bosch
Total area: 2000m2plus 3,5 Ha. of Sports Harbour. Construction Budget:
€1,4M. Completion date: 2007
BBC Music centre, London, UK
CLIENTE: BBC
Total area: Music Centre: 6,500m2; Offices: 20,000m2. Construction to be
completed: 2006
Lea Valley London 2012 Olympic Park and Site-Wide Infrastructure, UK
CLIENTE: London Development Agency
Investment value: £4 billion
Trinity EC3 Offices, City of London, UK
CLIENTE: Beetham
Total area: 170,000m2; Phase 1 completion date: 2008
Viviendas Reyal, Barcelona, Spain
CLIENTE: Reyal Imobiliaria
Total Area: 9,800m2, Completion date: 2008
Durango Residential Tower, Durango, Spain
CLIENTE: Euskotren
Total Area: 11,600m2 . Budget: € 7.2m; Completion date: 2008
Torre Masaveu Hotel, Gijon, Spain
CLIENTE : Grupo Masaveu
Total Area : 12,000 m2 . Budget: € 23m; Completion date : tbc
World Business Centre, Busan Korea
CLIENTE : Solomon Group
Total Area : 280,000m2; Completion date : tbc
Lubasa Headquarters, Valencia, Spain
CLIENTE : Lubasa
Total Area : 3,800m2; Completion date : tbc
Perales del Rio Masterplan, Madrid, Spain
CLIENTE : El Vendegueral
Total Area : 661ha; Completion date : 2012
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
CLIENTE : MoCA Cleveland
Total Area : 3,000 m2 . Budget: $12m; Completion date : tbc
West QuayIII, Commercial & Residential Development,Southampton,UK
CLIENTE : Hammmerson Plc
Total Area : 40,000 m2 . Budget: £100m; Completion date : 2010
Residences for Artists and Researchers, Ille Seguin, Paris, France
CLIENTE : ING Real Estate/Icade G3A/SAEM Val de Seine Amenagement
Total Area : 12,500 m2 . Budget: € 15,000; Completion date : 2009
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Sede para la Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, León, España
CLIENTE: Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia
Estudio previo para 2.500 m2 de programa cultural, más espacio público.6M€.
Proyecto 2010.
Terminal de Ferry en Santander, España
CLIENTE: Arup
Estudio previo para 3.000 m2 de programa de transporte, más espacio público.
8M€. Proyecto 2010.
Biopol parque científico para la salud, Barcelona, España
CLIENTE: Servei Català de la Salut, Biopol’h
49.500 m2 aparcamiento, edificios para investigación y acelerador de
partículas, más espacio público.80M€. Proyecto 2010.
Sede para el Mundial 2014 Real Federación Española de Vela
CLIENTE: Real Federación Española de Vela
Estudio previo para 2.500 m2 de programa deportivo, más espacio
público.6M€. Proyecto 2010.
Nueva Lonja Pesquera en Pasaia, España
CLIENTE: Autoridad Portuaria de Pasaia
Concurso para 22.500 m2 de programa agroalimentario, más espacio público y
programa complementario.18M€. Proyecto 2009. Finalización estimada 2012.
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