Zoka Zola | |
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Born | Zoka Zola |
Occupation | Architecture |
Years active | 1990–present |
Notable work | Zero Energy Glass & Bedolla House and Pfanner House in Chicago |
Zoka Zola is a Croatian architect and teacher who operates her own studio in Chicago, Illinois.[1] She has license to work as an architect in the US, the UK, and Croatia. Her most notable work is the Pfanner House for which she received the Home of the Year Award named as the best house in North America by Architecture Magazine.[2][3] Kenneth Frampton's publication the American Masterworks: Houses of the 20th and 21st Centuries lists this house among the 43 houses constructed in the USA since 1985. She is also a professor at the School of Architecture at University of Illinois, Chicago. Her firm is also involved in design of three zero energy houses of which one is located in Chicago (for which she has received an award) and the other two are in Kuala Lumpur.[4][5]