Elia Zenghelis is a cofounder of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and current principal of Gigantes Zinghelis Architects (GZA), Athens, Greece.
During the 1980s, Zenghelis was the partner in charge of OMA London and OMA Athens. In 1987 he established Gigantes Zenghelis Architects with Eleni Gigantes in Athens.
Zenghelis has also taught at the Yale School of Architecture as an advanced studio critic in 2013, 2015, and 2017.