She received the Young Architect of the Year Award in the UK in 1995 and was awarded the Architecture Magazine Home of the Year Award for a house in Chicago in 2003. She has taught at the Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, the Architectural Association in London, and The School of the Art Institute Chicago. Zola is currently engaged in the interrelationship of Practice + Ecology through her work on such diverse projects as a set of green stock plans for 21st Century Chicago, a zero energy house, and a website designed as a platform for sustainability. Free. For a campus map and directions, go here.