Andrew Zago, principal of Bouwman Zago Architecture, has over thirty years of professional experience in
architecture, urbanism, and education. He is a native of Detroit, holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the
University of Michigan, and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. In 1987 he founded AKS RUNO
in Los Angeles with Bahram Shirdel and later, Shirdel Zago Kipnis with Bahram Shirdel and Jeffrey Kipnis. In
1991 he established Zago Architecture—Bouwman Zago’s predecessor firm. Zago is a member of the design
faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI- Arc) and Clinical Professor at the University of
Illinois at Chicago. He has also taught at Harvard University, Cornell University, the University of Michigan,
UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the Ohio State University. From 2003 to 2007 he was the founding director of the
Master of Architecture program at the City College of New York. He frequently lectures, and his work has
been exhibited internationally. In 2018 he published Accident, the first book of his planned Polygraph series
of mismatched publications documenting the breadth of his creative output. Zago is a fellow of the
American Academy in Rome and a recipient of both an Academy Award in Architecture from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Fellowship Grant from the United States Artists organization.
Led by partners Laura Bouwman and Andrew Zago, Bouwman Zago Architecture brings open-ended,
creative inquiry to disciplinary concerns in architecture. Noted for its prescient articulation of emerging
sensibilities, the practice weds quasi-autonomous aesthetic studies to the art of making buildings and cities.
In doing so, Bouwman Zago reaffirms the substantial and productive link amongst art, architecture and
urbanism. The firm has completed projects in the US, Mexico, and Korea including the Fine Venture office
tower in Seoul, the Cornell Synthesis Studio for Cornell University’s Sibley School of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).
- Tags
-
