Amale Andraos (born 1973) is a New York-based designer. She was dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (2014-2021) and serves as advisor to the

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. She is the co-founder of the New York City architecture firm WORKac with her husband, Dan Wood. 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.

Early years

Andraos was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and has lived in Saudi Arabia, France, Canada and the Netherlands. She holds a B. Arch from

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in Montreal and a Master of Architecture from the

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Work

Andraos has taught at

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School of Architecture,

, the

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and the

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. In 2014, she was named dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She was the first woman to hold that position. Her publications include ''We Will Get There When We Cross That Bridge'' (Monacelli Press, 2017), ''The Arab City: Architecture and Representation'' (Columbia Books on Architecture and the city, 2016), ''49 Cities'' (Inventory Press, 3rd edition, 2015), and ''Above the Pavement, the Farm!'' (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010). 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." Andraos founded WORKac with her husband Dan Wood in 2003. 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

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Young Architects Program, the

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s at PS216 in Brooklyn and PS7 in Harlem, NY, the new office headquarters for

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, 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. Andraos describes her firms work as an "intersection of the urban, the rural, and the natural." Before co-founding WORKac, Andraos held positions at

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/ OMA in Rotterdam and New York, Saucier + Perrotte in Montreal and Atelier Big City also in Montreal. As of October 2015, Andraos serves as a board member for the

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and the AUB Faculty of Engineering and Architecture International Advisory Committee. She is also on the

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’s New INC. Advisory Council.

Awards and honors

2021

* AIA New York Archicture Merit Award – Rhode Island School of Design Student Center

2020

* ArchMarathon Awards, Honoree – Rhode Island School of Design Student Center

2019

* AN Interior Top 50 Award, '' The Architects’ Newspaper'' * Finalist Technical Innovation Award, Parking Today Awards – Miami Museum Garage * International Architecture Award, Parking & Transportation Center, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Design – Miami Museum Garage * 2019 Beazley Designs of the Year Award Nominee, The Design Museum in London – Miami Museum Garage * 2019 Architizer A+Awards Jury Winner, Concepts - Plus - Architecture + Collaboration – Miami Museum Garage

2018

* Innovative Facility of the Year. NPA Innovation Award, National Parking Association - Miami Museum Garage * Best Big Scale of the Year, AIA Miami Chapter, American Institute of Architects – Miami Museum Garage * Honorable Mention, Best of Design Award, ''

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'' * Parking Structure Design Awards of Excellence, Florida Parking & Transportation Association – Miami Museum Garage * GarageMASterworks Award, Best New Urban Amenity, Municipal Arts Society – Kew Gardens Hills Library * AIA NY Architecture Merit Award - Kew Gardens Hills Library

2017

* #1 Design Firm, Architect 50, ''

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'' * Game Changers 2017, '' Metropolis Magazine'' *

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Building of the Year – Stealth Building * AIA NY Architecture Merit Award – Stealth Building

2016

* New Generation Leader, ''

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'' Women in Architecture Award *"From A to Zaha: 26 Women Who Changed Architecture," ''Architizer''

2015

* AIA New York State Firm of the Year * Arch Daily 2015 Building of the Year –

Offices * AIA New York State Honor Award for Urban Design – Beijing Horticultural Expo Masterplan * Award for Excellence in Design – New York City Public Design Commission – Issue Project Room

2014

* Interior Design Best Of Year Award –

Offices * AIA New York State Design Citation – Edible Schoolyard at P.S. 216 * MASterworks Award – Best Green Design Initiative, Municipal Arts Society – Edible Schoolyard at P.S. 216 * AIA NY Merit Interior Architecture Award –

Offices

2013

* AIA NY Merit Interior Architecture Award – Children's Museum of the Arts * AIA NY Merit Award for Urban Design – New Holland Island * AIA Houston Merit Award for Renovation –

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* City of Houston "Best Of" Awards: Best College Campus Building, and Best Artistic Renovation –

2010

* Award for Excellence in Design – New York City Public Design Commission

2009

* 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

2008

* 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 * Project of the Year: Park/Landscape, National – New York Construction/ENR * Best Landscape/Urban Design 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 –

Contemporary Art Center

2007

* "New York Designs" – Architectural League

2006

* AIA NY Chapter Merit Interior Architecture Award – Lee Angel Showroom * Design Vanguard – ''

'' * New Practices, New York – AIA NY and '' The Architects' Newspaper''

Selected writing

* 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! * 2010: "Interviews," Praxis Journal: Issue 11&12: 11 architects 12 conversations * 2009: "Public Farm 1," Design Ecologies (Princeton Architectural Press) * 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

References

Bibliography

*''We'll Get There When We Cross That Bridge'' (2017), The Monacelli Press, *''Architecture and Representation: the Arab City'' (2016), Columbia GSAPP Books on Architecture, * ''Above the Pavement, the Farm! Architecture and Agriculture at PF1'' (2010),

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, * ''49 Cities'' (2009), Storefront for Art and Architecture , 3rd edition: Inventory Press (2015)

External links

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