Paola Zellner graduated from Universidad de Buenos Aires and practiced architecture in Argentina and Uruguay. She obtained a Masters Degree from SCI-Arc; practiced in Los Angeles with Norman R. Millar Architects; and together with Jim Bassett started 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), showcasing 40 projects of architecture around the world, made by women in a diversity of practices.
