Amale Andraos
Amale Andraos, HFRAIC, is a Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University where she recently served as an Advisor to the President on the University’s Climate Initiatives and the Climate School. Andraos is recognized as an architecture thought leader and has lectured and taught widely. Her publications include The Arab City: Architecture and Representation, We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge, 49 Cities and ‘Above the Pavement the Farm.’
Andraos is a principal of WORKac which she co-founded with her partner Dan Wood in 2003. An award-winning architecture and design practice, WORKac is committed to creating architecture that engages environmental and social concerns with a particular emphasis on public, cultural and civic projects. WORKac was recently named the #1 design firm in the US by Architect Magazine and selected as the AIA New York State “Firm of the Year.” The practice has achieved international acclaim for projects such as the Edible Schoolyards in Brooklyn and Harlem, a public library for Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, the Miami Museum Garage, the Student Success Center at RISD, a new branch for the Brooklyn Public Library in DUMBO, and two community centers in Mexico City in collaboration with IUA. Current projects include the Beirut Museum of Art in Lebanon, a public library for Boulder, Colorado, a commercial building in San Francisco, a new space for the Peoples Theater Project in New York City, and the renovation of the Sibley Dome at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Biography current as of January 2023