Alejandro Zaera Polo is an architect and an architectural theorist. He has an MARCH II with Distinction from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He worked for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, before establishing Foreign Office Architects in 1993 in London. He started AZPML as a legacy practice of FOA after its dissolution in 2011. Besides his professional practice, Alejandro was the Dean of Princeton School of Architecture and of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. He has been Visiting Professor at Yale, Columbia, and UCLA and was a Unit Master at the Architectural Association in London. He has been a frequent contributor to professional publications such as El Croquis, Quaderns, A+U, Arch+, Log, AD, Harvard Design Magazine and Geographies.