Amale Andraos
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Andraos at 2015 Koolhaas Lecture
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| Born | 1972/1973 (age 43–44) Beirut, Lebanon |
| Nationality | American, Lebanese |
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| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | Work Architecture Company |
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Amale Andraos (born 1972 or 1973) is a New York-based architect. She is dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She is the co-founder of WORKac with her husband, Dan Wood.
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Andraos has lived in Saudi Arabia, France, Canada and the Netherlands. She holds a B. Arch from McGill University in Montreal and a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the daughter of a Beirut-based architect and realized her passion for architecture while observing his practice.
Prior to becoming dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Andraos taught at numerous universities including the Princeton University School of Architecture, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and the American University in Beirut. Her recent design studios and seminars have focused on the Arab City, which has become the subject of a series of symposia entitled “Architecture and Representation” held at Studio-X Amman in 2013 and on campus in New York in the fall of 2014. Her publications include 49 Cities, a re-reading of 49 visionary plans through an ecological lens (Inventory Press, 3rd edition, 2015),Above the Pavement, the Farm! (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), and The Arab City: Architecture and Representation (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2016). 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."
In 2003, Andraos and husband, Dan Wood, founded WORKac, a New York-based architectural and urban practice with international reach. The practice has achieved international recognition for projects such as the competition-winning designs for Hua Qiang Bei Road, Shenzhen, the Centre de Conferences in Libreville, Gabon and the New Holland Island Cultural Center in St. Petersburg, Diane von Furstenberg Studio Headquarters, Public Farm 1 for MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, the Edible Schoolyards at PS216 in Brooklyn and PS7 in Harlem, NY as well as the new office headquarters for Wieden+Kennedy, also in New York. Current projects include a new storefront for a Parking Garage in Miami, a residential conversion of a historic New York cast-iron building and a Master Plan for seven university campuses for Weifang, China in collaboration with Studio Pei-Zhu, SLAB, SCAPE. WORKac has won numerous awards including a 2015 Honor Award from the AIA NY for the Beijing Horticultural Expo Master Plan – also in collaboration with Studio Pei-Zhu, SLAB and SCAPE.
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