At Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design studio, Zoka Zola and her team absorb all the complexity of the project—client’s needs, budget, site, urban and social context, people, sustainability, concepts, available technology, and building methods. This complexity they master throughout their design process. Zoka Zola believes that the best architecture emerges from inclusion, rather than exclusion, of the multitude of influxes on a project.

Zoka Zola, AIA, RIBA, LEED AP, Principal
With Zoka Zola’s Pfanner House included alongside the work of Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Richard Meier in Kenneth Frampton’s latest edition of American Masterworks, Zoka is acclaimed as one of the most influential architects of the new generation. Robert Venturi declares, “This is real architecture. [It] combines eloquently valid complexity and contradiction – and artfulness.” Zoka Zola’s work breaks new ground both spatially and conceptually. A 2008 New York Times article on her Zero-Energy House in Kuala Lumpur points out that her work not only contributes to “the legacy of architecture” but also “takes sustainable design into the 21st Century."

Recognition

The Pfanner house was selected as one of forty-three American masterworks of the last 120 years in the latest edition by Kenneth Frampton and won the Home of the Year 2003 Award (of North America) by Architecture magazine. Zoka Zola received first prize for an international competition for Zero Energy Housing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as well as for an anonymous architectural competition for affordable housing in Croatia. The work of Zoka Zola has also been published in numerous books, guides, journals, and newspapers worldwide.