Alejandro Zaera-Polo is an architect and co-founder of London/Zurich/Princeton-based Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Maider Llaguno Architecture (AZPML). He graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid with honors and obtained an MArch II degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design with distinction. He worked at OMA in Rotterdam before establishing FOA (in 1993) and then Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architecture (in 2011), the vehicles for a successful international professional practice since then. In parallel to his professional activities, Zaera-Polo has developed a substantial role within academia. He is currently professor at the School of Architecture at Princeton University, where he was formerly the Dean, and was the inaugural Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor at Yale. He is also a member of the London School of Economics Urban Age project. He has written extensively as a theorist in El Croquis, Quaderns, A+U, Arch+, Volume, Log, and many other international magazines, and has recently published Sniper’s Log (Actar, 2013), a compilation of his most relevant writings.