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Amale Andraos is Professor and Dean Emeritus of Columbia GSAPP. She served as Dean from to Andraos is committed to design research and her writings have focused on climate change and its impact on architecture as well as on the question of representation in the age of global practice.

Amale Andraos

American architect

Amale Andraos

Andraos at Koolhaas Lecture

Born&#;()[3][4]

Beirut, Lebanon

NationalityAmerican, Lebanese
Alma&#;mater
OccupationArchitect
PracticeWork Architecture Company
Projects
  • Centre de Conferences in Libreville, Gabon[1]
  • New Holland Island Cultural Center Masterplan
  • Edible Schoolyards at PS in Brooklyn and PS7 in Harlem, New York[2]
  • Wieden+Kennedy New York Headquarters
  • Stealth Building
  • Miami Museum Garage
  • RISD Pupil Center

Amale Andraos (born )[3][4] is a New York-based architect.

She was dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation () 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 [8]

Early years

[9][10]

Work

Andraos has taught at Princeton University School of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania School of Layout and the American University in Beirut.

In , she was named dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.[11] She was the first woman to hold that position. Her publications include We Will Get There When We Cross That Bridge (Monacelli Compress, ),[12]The Arab City: Architecture and Representation (Columbia Books on Architecture and the city, ),[13]49 Cities (Inventory Press, 3rd edition, ),[14] and Above the Pavement, the Farm! (Princeton Architectural Press, ).[15]

Andraos was named one of the "25 Most Admired Educators for " by DesignIntelligence, which describes her as integrating "real society problems into the curriculum with a bold vision and powerful 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 consideration leader, contributing widely to the field through her lectures and writings.[17][18][19]

Andraos founded WORKac with her husband Dan Wood in [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 PS in Brooklyn and PS7 in Harlem, NY, the new office headquarters for Wieden+Kennedy, also in Unused 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 function 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 , 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

  • AIA New York Archicture Merit Award – Rhode Island Educational facility of Design Student Center[27]

  • ArchMarathon Awards, Honoree – Rhode Island University of Design Student Center[28]

  • AN Interior Top 50 Award, The Architects’ Newspaper[29]
  • Finalist Technical Innovation Award, Parking Today Awards – Miami Museum Garage[30]
  • International Architecture Award, Parking & Transportation Center, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Layout – Miami Museum Garage[31]
  • Beazley Designs of the Year Award Nominee, The Design Museum in London – Miami Museum Garage[32]
  • Architizer A+Awards Jury Winner, Concepts - Plus - Architecture + Collaboration – Miami Museum Garage[33]

  • Innovative Facility of the Year.

    NPA Innovation Award, National Parking Association - Miami Museum Garage[34]

  • Best Huge Scale of the Year, AIA Miami Chapter, American Institute of Architects – Miami Museum Garage[35]
  • Honorable Mention, Best of Design Award, The Architect's Newspaper[36]
  • Parking Structure Style Awards of Excellence, Florida Parking & Transportation Association – Miami Museum Garage[37]
  • GarageMASterworks Award, Best Unused Urban Amenity, Municipal Arts Culture – Kew Gardens Hills Library[38]
  • AIA NY Architecture Merit Award - Kew Gardens Hills Library[39]

  • AIA Novel York State Firm of the Year[46]
  • Arch Daily Building of the Year – Wieden+Kennedy Offices[47]
  • AIA Novel York State Honor Award for Urban Design – Beijing Horticultural Expo Masterplan[48]
  • Award for Excellence in Design – New York Urban area Public Design Commission – Issue Project Room[49]

  • Interior Design Best Of Year Award – Wieden+Kennedy Offices[50]
  • AIA New York State Design Citation – Edible Schoolyard at P.S.

  • MASterworks Award – Best Grassy Design Initiative, Municipal Arts World – Edible Schoolyard at P.S. [51]
  • AIA NY Merit Interior Architecture Award – Wieden+Kennedy Offices[52]

  • Award for Excellence in Design – Fresh York City Public Design Commission[56]

  • National Design Award Finalist – Interiors – Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
  • Engineering Excellence Diamond Award – Structural Systems – ACEC New York
  • AIA NY State Merit Award for Architecture – Public Farm 1

  • Best of the Best Awards, McGraw Hill Construction
  • Structural Engineering Merit Award – Public Farm 1 – SEAoNY
  • Year in Architecture, Top Ten Designs – New York Magazine – Public Farm 1[57]
  • Project of the Year: Park/Landscape, National – New York Construction/ENR
  • Best Landscape/Urban Layout Project, Regional – New York Construction
  • Best of Year Award, Interior Design Magazine
  • AIA NY Chapter Merit Interior Architecture Award – Anthropologie Dos Lagos
  • Emerging Voices – Architectural League of New York
  • MASterwork Award – Best Historic Renovation, Municipal Arts Society – Diane von Furstenberg Studio HQ
  • Young Architects Program – MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center

  • "New York Designs" – Architectural League

Selected writing

  • “Problematizing the Regional Context: Representation in the Arab and Gulf Cities,” in The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress
  • “The Timeliness of Architecture’s Eco-Visionary Practices,” in Eco-Visionaries: Art, Architecture, and New Media after the Anthropocene
  • “Embodied Energy: Then and Now,” in Embodied Energy and Design
  • "The Arab City: Architecture and Representation", Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
  • "Beyond Bigness: Re-Reading the Peutinger Map," The Avery Review, Issue 01
  • "Strategies of the Void," Perspecta Amnesia
  • "Visionary Urbanism and its Agency," Zawia, Issue 1: Utopia
  • "Futura Bold," Another Pamphlet Issue 3: The Future!
  • "Interviews," Praxis Journal: Issue 11& 11 architects 12 conversations
  • "Public Farm 1," Design Ecologies (Princeton Architectural Press)
  • "Depave the Parking Lot and Put Back Paradise," Architecture Magazine
  • "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
  • "A Program Primer," Praxis Journal 8: reProgramming.
  • "Why are we still learning from Las Vegas?" in Bidoun, Issue 04, Dubai

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    Amale Andraos | Speaking Fee | Booking Agent: Amale Andraos (born ) [3] [4] is a New York-based architect. She was dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation () and serves as advisor to the Columbia Climate School.

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    Amale Andraos born [ 3 ] [ 4 ] is a New York-based architect. Princeton Architectural Press, Andraos was named one of the "25 Most Admired Educators for " by DesignIntelligence, which describes her as integrating "real world problems into the curriculum with a bold vision and strong leadership. Andraos is recognized as a thought head, contributing widely to the field through her lectures and writings.

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    Andraos is known as an architecture thought head and lectures widely. In her interview, Amale talks about her multi-cultural upbringing, the precarity of practice, and engaging with the climate emergency, advising those just starting their career to combine hard work with freshness and curiosity. JG: Tell me about your foundational years - where did you grow up and what did you like to do as a kid? My father, who is a painter and architect, practiced architecture for about ten years in Lebanon but once in Saudi, he started a pre-fabricated housing company.

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Bibliography

  • We'll Gain There When We Cross That Bridge (), The Monacelli Push, ISBN&#;
  • Architecture and Representation: the Arab City (), Columbia GSAPP Books on Architecture, ISBN&#;
  • Above the Pavement, the Farm!

    Architecture and Agriculture at PF1 (), Princeton Architectural Press, ISBN&#;

  • 49 Cities (), Storefront for Art and ArchitectureISBN&#;, 3rd edition: Inventory Press () ISBN&#;

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