Zoka zola biography of alberta king

Zoka Zola is a Croatian architect and teacher who operates her own studio in Chicago , Illinois. 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. After her education, she worked for many architectural firms in Vienna , Rome , and London.

She then established her own firm in London and was involved in the design of minor public buildings and restaurants; during this period she taught at the Oxford Brookes University at Oxford as senior lecturer, and also in the capacity of Unit Master at the Architectural Association in London. After Zola moved to Chicago in she worked as adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago when she won an award for her Pfanner House.

Her zero energy house in Chicago is a notable for its adoption to in situ energy generation for sources other than fossil fuel. She was also involved in urban planning of Chicago city, created models for housing and education, a training institution in China training center with hostel faculties, an "infrastructure tower" of ft height in the desert area of California.

Her recent project is planning of an economically viable housing complex in Croatia.

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The exterior surface of the house is covered with "greenery" that works as thermal insulation in hot or cold weather. Zola's preference to use of metals in her architectural designs is explained by her as: "Our buildings are made of metal but this is not something that many people would think about; metals are the real building blocks of architecture".

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Alberta Christine Williams King was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mother and the wife of Martin Luther King, Sr. She played a significant role in the affairs of the Ebenezer Baptist .

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