Amale Andraos (born 1973)[3][4] is a New York-based architect. She was dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (2014-2021) and serves as advisor to the Columbia Climate School.[5][6] She is the co-founder of the New York City architecture firm WORKac with her husband, Dan Wood.[7] Her impact on architectural practice around the world was recognized when she was named Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 2021.[8]
Andraos was named one of the "25 Most Admired Educators for 2016" by DesignIntelligence, which describes her as integrating "real world problems into the curriculum with a bold vision and strong leadership."[16]
Furthermore, she recently served as an Advisor on Columbia University’s Climate Initiatives and for the newly-launched Climate School. Andraos is recognized as a thought leader, contributing widely to the field through her lectures and writings.[17][18][19]
Andraos founded WORKac with her husband Dan Wood in 2003.[20] The practice is based in New York City, with projects in the U.S. and abroad. The practice has achieved international recognition for projects such as Public Farm 1 for MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, the Edible Schoolyards at PS216 in Brooklyn and PS7 in Harlem, NY, the new office headquarters for Wieden+Kennedy, also in New York, a residential conversion of a historic New York cast-iron building titled the Stealth Building, the Miami Museum Garage, and the Rhode Island School of Design Student Center in Providence.[21][22][23] Andraos describes her firms work as an "intersection of the urban, the rural, and the natural."[24]
Before co-founding WORKac, Andraos held positions at Rem Koolhaas/OMA in Rotterdam and New York, Saucier + Perrotte in Montreal and Atelier Big City also in Montreal.[25]
As of October 2015, Andraos serves as a board member for the Architectural League of New York and the AUB Faculty of Engineering and Architecture International Advisory Committee. She is also on the New Museum’s New INC. Advisory Council.[26]
Awards and honors
2021
AIA New York Archicture Merit Award – Rhode Island School of Design Student Center[27]
2020
ArchMarathon Awards, Honoree – Rhode Island School of Design Student Center[28]
2019: “Problematizing the Regional Context: Representation in the Arab and Gulf Cities,” in The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress
2018: “The Timeliness of Architecture’s Eco-Visionary Practices,” in Eco-Visionaries: Art, Architecture, and New Media after the Anthropocene
2017: “Embodied Energy: Then and Now,” in Embodied Energy and Design
2016: "The Arab City: Architecture and Representation", Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
2015: "Beyond Bigness: Re-Reading the Peutinger Map," The Avery Review, Issue 01
2014: "Strategies of the Void," Perspecta 48: Amnesia
2013: "Visionary Urbanism and its Agency," Zawia, Issue 1: Utopia
2012: "Futura Bold," Another Pamphlet Issue 3: The Future!
2008: "Depave the Parking Lot and Put Back Paradise," Architecture Magazine
2007: "Will the Real Dubai Please Stand Up?" Superlative City: Dubai and the Urban Condition in the Early Twenty-First Century; "Cadavre Exquis Lebanese" in Visionary Power: Producing the Contemporary City; "Dubai's Island Urbanism" in Cities from Zero
2006: "A Program Primer," Praxis Journal 8: reProgramming.
2005: "Why are we still learning from Las Vegas?" in Bidoun, Issue 04, Dubai