Alejandro Zaera-Polo has been removed from his faculty position as Princeton continues its row with the former SoA dean

Princeton and former School of Architecture Dean Alejandro Zaera-Polo are officially cutting ties as the 57-year-old has been formally dismissed from his faculty position following a unanimous vote by an Ad-Hoc committee of the university’s board of trustees this summer.  Zaera-Polo served as Dean of Princeton's School of Architecture for a brief period from 2012 until 2014, when he resigned following allegations of plagiarism that eventually led to a defamation lawsuit brought by Zaera-Polo against the university, which then made an unsuccessful attempt to dismiss the four-part claim against itself and President Christopher Eisgruber. Zaera-Polo had continued on as a faculty member despite the surrounding controversy. In response to his dismissal, Zaera-Polo has issued a 5-hour “Gonzo-style” polemic against the university in which the AZPML founder touches on various topics including “Interpretation Trumps Evidence”, “Identity Politics”, and “The Post-truth University.” The Spanish...

Alejandro Zaera-Polo has been removed from his faculty position as Princeton continues its row with the former SoA dean

Princeton and former School of Architecture Dean Alejandro Zaera-Polo are officially cutting ties as the 57-year-old has been formally dismissed from his faculty position following a unanimous vote by an Ad-Hoc committee of the university’s board of trustees this summer. 

Zaera-Polo served as Dean of Princeton's School of Architecture for a brief period from 2012 until 2014, when he resigned following allegations of plagiarism that eventually led to a defamation lawsuit brought by Zaera-Polo against the university, which then made an unsuccessful attempt to dismiss the four-part claim against itself and President Christopher Eisgruber.

Zaera-Polo had continued on as a faculty member despite the surrounding controversy.

In response to his dismissal, Zaera-Polo has issued a 5-hour “Gonzo-style” polemic against the university in which the AZPML founder touches on various topics including “Interpretation Trumps Evidence”, “Identity Politics”, and “The Post-truth University.” The Spanish...