Ana Zatezalo

Education
Multilingual English, Russian, German, French, Serbian and Slovenian. 

PhD Seminars European Graduate School, Saas Fee ( 2015-2018), Master in Economics from HEC, Paris ( 2012), Master of Sience in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, NYC ( 2001), Architects degree DPLG from Ecole d’Architecture Paris Malaquais ( 2000)   

Teaching 

Paris College of Art ( 2023-2025), Academie Charpentier, Paris ( 2024-2025), Jury and comission member at Pratt, Columbia, NYC and Ecole d’Architecture Paris, Versailles, Paris Malaquais, Director of a Visiting School at Architectural Association, London /Berlin             ( 2018-2023), Professor Assistant at  Technical University Braunschweig and Technical University Berlin , Germany ( 2013- 2023), Columbia University, NYC ( 2002). 

Professional Experience
International Project Coordinator  at White Kitchen, Paris ( 2025), Co-founder and director at consulting agency Ingenious (2017-2024), Director of development Urbanisation at the Port of Belgrade ( 2008-2012), Founder and architect at Sinestezia ( 2006- 2017) , Senior Designer at Archi-Tectonics, NYC ( 2002-2006),  

Profile 

Ana, an architect DPLG, grew up multilingual between Moscow and Belgrade. She holds an MSc in Architecture and a Master in economy from Columbia University and HEC. 

Her award-winning projects took her across the USA, where she lived and worked in New York for five years, before expanding her work throughout the Balkans, where she founded Sinestezia in 2007. In 2013, she moved to Berlin, spending 12 years in Germany launching innovation labs such as Animalesque and founding her second company, Ingenious. Since 2024, Ana has been back in Paris, leading strategic partnerships and teaching Materiality, Scenography, and Retail Design. 

She is currently collaborating with White Kitchen on retail and hospitality projects in Paris, bringing her expertise in design, execution, and creating vibrant, dynamic spaces. 

Ana has a deep interest in connecting nature and life to built environments. This unique perspective allows her to redefine materiality and lighting, transforming them from mere aesthetic elements into essential links to natural cycles.  

As an educator in architecture and interior design, Ana promotes hands-on experimentation and forward-thinking teaching methods. She is dedicated to uncovering each student’s unique strengths while fostering an awareness of design’s role in addressing contemporary and ecological challenges for shaping the future built environments.