The Sniper's Log: Architectural Chronicles of Generation X

This event, organized in collaboration with Actar Publishers, marks the recent release of Alejandro Zaera-Polo's book The Sniper's Log; Architectural Chronicles of Generation X.

This compilation of texts written since 1986 reveals a parallel activity to Alejandro Zaera-Polo's professional life. The book is like a sniper's log, a register of events for the purpose of accumulating experience, be it academic or professional, trying to identify tendencies and to assess performances, rather than to establish truth. Written for different media and formats (professional magazines, speaking engagements, academic presentations...), the texts are thread together as part of a biographical experience determined by temporal and geographical factors. A graphic texture of more than 500 images captures the temporal framework of these writings and provides a background to trigger associations.

Alejandro Zaera Polo (born Madrid, 1963) is a visiting professor in Princeton and Yale Schools of Architecture and founder of London and Barcelona based Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architecture. He was a principal of Foreign Office Architects.