Paola Zellner
Paola Zellner practiced architecture in Argentina and Uruguay, later in Los Angeles with Norman R. Millar Architects; and since 1998 with Jim Bassett in the design practice Zellner + Bassett. She is currently an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech, and Director of initiatives for the International Archive of Women in Architecture Center (IAWA). Her creative work based on material preserved in the IAWA collections includes the immersive installation “30 x 30,” shown internationally, and for which she received the 2018-2019 ACSA Creative Achievement Award. Her scholarship has been published in Museum making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions (Abingdon: Routledge, 2012), in ACSA proceedings, in the journal Bitácora Arquitectura #33 (2017), and in The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021). Her most recent publication co-authored with Marcia Feuerstein and Jodi La Coe is the book Expanding Field of Architecture: Women in Practice Across the Globe (London: Lund Humphries, 2022).
design, women in architecture, archives, textile fabrication, material research.
ARCH2015-2016: Architecture Design Lab
ARCH2034: The Art of Building
ARCH3514: Textile Space
IDS3234: Exploring the IAWA
IDS3234: The Built Environment from a Gendered Perspective
Publications: Expanding Field of Architecture: Women in Practice Across the Globe (London: Lund Humphries, 2022); The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021); IAWA Center Instagram Blog (iawa_vt)
Exhibits: “Dense Space - Il Mobile,” National Museum of American History, Washington D.C. (2017); “Dense Space,” at the Science Museum of Western Virginia (2018); “30 x 30: Expanding the Legacy,” at the AIA National Headquarters in Washington D.C., and at Kibel Gallery at University of Maryland (2017-18)
2018-2019 ACSA Creative Achievement Award
2010 AIA Blue Ridge Award of Excellence
Education
Master of Architecture, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
B.Arch., Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo (FADU), Universidad de Buenos Aires
