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Bettina Zerza is an architect, designer and urbanist whose work focuses on the intersection of architecture and technology. She is the founder of ZERZA, an international architectural practice that explores how data shapes our cities and how autonomous buildings can contribute to a sustainable future. She envisions an architecture that responds to the particular requirements and challenges of each site and its specific historical, cultural, social, economic, and political parameters. Bettina Zerza received her master’s degree in architecture from the Graz University of Technology, Austria, and continued her studies at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, New York. Her work has been internationally recognized and exhibited in institutions such as the Museum of the City of New York; the New Museum, New York; the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; the Kulturforum, Berlin; and the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture in Shenzhen/ Hong Kong.