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Amale Andraos

{{short description|American architect}}

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| nationality = American, Lebanese

| birth_date = {{birth-date|1973}}{{cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/style/partners-in-life-and-at-work-architecture-company/78/ |title=Partners in Life and at Work Architecture Company |newspaper=New York Sun |date=2004-07-13 |access-date=2015-09-26}}{{cite news |url=https://www.albawaba.com/business/lebanon-architecture-achievements-596643 |title= Lebanese woman becomes Columbia University's first female dean |date=2014-08-14 |access-date=2021-06-17}}

| birth_place = Beirut, Lebanon

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| practice = Work Architecture Company

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  • Centre de Conferences in Libreville, Gabon{{cite web |last1=Rosenfield |first1=Karissa |title=WORKac to design new Assembly Hall in Central Africa |url=http://www.archdaily.com/284788/workac-to-design-new-assembly-hall-in-central-africa |website=Arch Daily |date=22 October 2012 |access-date=23 October 2015}}
  • New Holland Island Cultural Center Masterplan
  • Edible Schoolyards at PS216 in Brooklyn and PS7 in Harlem, New York{{cite web |last1=Mirviss |first1=Laura |title=WORKac Unveils Edible Schoolyard in Brooklyn |url=http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2013/11/131112-WORKac-Unveils-Edible-Schoolyard-at-PS-216-in-Brooklyn.asp |website=News |publisher=Architectural Record |access-date=23 October 2015}}
  • Wieden+Kennedy New York Headquarters
  • Stealth Building
  • Miami Museum Garage
  • RISD Student Center}}

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Amale Andraos (born 1973){{cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/style/partners-in-life-and-at-work-architecture-company/78/ |title=Partners in Life and at Work Architecture Company |newspaper=New York Sun |date=2004-07-13 |access-date=2015-09-26}}{{cite news |url=https://www.albawaba.com/business/lebanon-architecture-achievements-596643 |title= Lebanese woman becomes Columbia University's first female dean |date=2014-08-14 |access-date=2021-06-17}} 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.{{cite news |url=http://archrecord.construction.com/features/Americas_Best_Architecture_Schools/2014/Amale-Andraos-speaks.asp |title=Amale Andraos Speaks | Architecture Education NOW 2015 | |work=Architectural Record |publisher=Archrecord.construction.com |access-date=2015-09-26 |author=Aleksandr Bierig}}{{cite web | url=https://president.columbia.edu/news/announcement-regarding-amale-andraos | title=Announcement Regarding Amale Andraos, Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | Office of the President }} She is the co-founder of the New York City architecture firm WORKac with her husband, Dan Wood.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/realestate/commercial/a-conversation-with-amale-andraos.html |title=A Conversation With Amale Andraos |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2 June 2015 |access-date=2015-09-26|last1=Marino |first1=Vivian }} 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.{{cite web|url=https://raic.org/news/announcing-2021-raic-honorary-fellows|title=Announcing the 2021 RAIC Honorary Fellows|date=2021-03-22|access-date=2021-06-16}}

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Early years

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Work

Andraos has taught at Princeton University School of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and the American University in Beirut. In 2014, she was named dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.{{Cite web|url=https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/new-york-architect-picked-to-lead-columbia-university-architecture-school/|title=New York Architect Picked to Lead Columbia University Architecture School|last=Chaban|first=Matt A. v|date=2014-08-12|website=ArtsBeat|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}} She was the first woman to hold that position. Her publications include We Will Get There When We Cross That Bridge (Monacelli Press, 2017),{{Cite web|url=https://www.monacellipress.com/book/?isbn=9781580934992|title=We'll Get There When We Cross That Bridge|website=www.monacellipress.com|date=September 2018|access-date=2019-10-02|archive-date=2019-11-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191120081815/https://www.monacellipress.com/book/?isbn=9781580934992|url-status=dead}} The Arab City: Architecture and Representation (Columbia Books on Architecture and the city, 2016),{{Cite book|url=http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-arab-city/9781941332146|title=The Arab City: Architecture and Representation|date=June 2016|publisher=Columbia Books on Architecture and the City|isbn=9781941332146|editor-last=Andraos|editor-first=Amale|editor-last2=Akawi|editor-first2=Nora}} 49 Cities (Inventory Press, 3rd edition, 2015),{{cite web|url=http://www.inventorypress.com/product/49-cities|title=49 Cities|publisher=Inventory Press|access-date=2016-03-14}} and Above the Pavement, the Farm! (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010).{{Cite web|url=https://www.papress.com/html/product.details.dna?isbn=9781568989358|title=Above the Pavement--the Farm!|website=www.papress.com|access-date=2019-10-02}}

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."{{Cite web|url=https://www.di.net/articles/designintelligence-25-most-admired-educators-for-2016/|title=DesignIntelligence 25 Most Admired Educators for 2016|date=2015-11-18|website=DesignIntelligence|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02|archive-date=2019-01-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105204250/https://www.di.net/articles/designintelligence-25-most-admired-educators-for-2016/|url-status=dead}}

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.{{cite web | url=https://work.ac/about/ | title=About – WORKac }}{{cite web | url=https://www.arch.columbia.edu/faculty/360-amale-andraos | title=Amale Andraos }}{{cite web | url=https://www.archdaily.com/tag/amale-andraos | title=Amale Andraos | Tag | ArchDaily | date=27 September 2021 }}

Andraos founded WORKac with her husband Dan Wood in 2003.{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/architect-rem-koolhaas8217s-prot233g233s-1390497617|title=Architect Rem Koolhaas's Protégés|last=Bernstein|first=Fred A.|date=2014-01-23|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2019-10-02|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/t-magazine/design/workac-architects-obsidian-penthouse.html|title=The Glass Apartment Hidden in Plain Sight|last=Bonanos|first=Christopher|date=2016-09-07|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-10-02|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/museum-garage-miami-design-district|title=Can a Parking Garage Be a Work of Art? In Miami, It Can!|website=Vogue|date=26 April 2018|language=en|access-date=2019-10-02}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.metropolismag.com/architecture/risd-student-center-workac/pic/60641/|title=WORKac Crafts a Progressive New Student Center for RISD|date=2019-09-03|website=Metropolis|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}} Andraos describes her firms work as an "intersection of the urban, the rural, and the natural."{{Cite web|url=http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/10/nature-vs-city-architect-dan-woods-world-opposites-attract/3620/|title=Nature vs. City: In Architect Dan Wood's World, Opposites Attract|last=Keith|first=Kelsey|website=CityLab|language=en|access-date=2019-10-02|archive-date=2014-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512191912/http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/10/nature-vs-city-architect-dan-woods-world-opposites-attract/3620/|url-status=dead}}

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.{{cite news|url=http://www.metropolismag.com/July-2007/On-The-Cusp/|title=On the Cusp|author=Eva Hagberg|date=July 2007|newspaper=Metropolis Magazine|access-date=2016-03-14}}

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.{{cite news|url=http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/amale-andraos-columbia-architecture-school|title=Amale Andraos Named Dean of Columbia's Architecture School|date=31 July 2014|newspaper=Architectural Digest|access-date=2016-03-14}}

Awards and honors

=2021=

  • AIA New York Archicture Merit Award – Rhode Island School of Design Student Center{{cite web |url=https://www.aiany.org/architecture/featured-projects/view/rhode-island-school-of-design-student-center/ |title=AIA New York Featured Project|access-date=2021-06-16}}

=2020=

  • ArchMarathon Awards, Honoree – Rhode Island School of Design Student Center{{cite web |url=http://www.archmarathon.com/en/risd-student-center/ |title=ArchMarathon Awards Institutional Buildings |access-date=2021-06-16 |archive-date=2021-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620212240/http://www.archmarathon.com/en/risd-student-center/ |url-status=dead }}

=2019=

  • AN Interior Top 50 Award, The Architects’ Newspaper{{Cite web|url=https://aninteriormag.com/an-interior-presents-its-top-50-interior-architects-and-designers-for-2019/|title=AN Interior presents its top 50 interior architects and designers for 2019|date=2019-03-04|website=AN Interior|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • Finalist Technical Innovation Award, Parking Today Awards – Miami Museum Garage{{Cite web|url=https://blog.parknews.biz/2019/02/pie-2019-finalists-for-parking-today-awards/|title=PIE 2019: Finalists for Parking Today Awards|date=2019-02-21|website=ParkNews|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • International Architecture Award, Parking & Transportation Center, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Design – Miami Museum Garage{{Cite web|url=https://www.chi-athenaeum.org/announcements/2019/06/28/2019-international-architecture-award/|title=The Chicago Athenaeum|website=www.chi-athenaeum.org|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • 2019 Beazley Designs of the Year Award Nominee, The Design Museum in London – Miami Museum Garage{{Cite web|url=https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/beazley-designs-of-the-year/architecture|title=Architecture|last=Q42|first=Fabrique &|website=Design Museum|language=en|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • 2019 Architizer A+Awards Jury Winner, Concepts - Plus - Architecture + Collaboration – Miami Museum Garage{{Cite web|url=https://awards.architizer.com/winners-gallery/|title=Winners|website=Architizer A+ Awards|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}

=2018=

  • Innovative Facility of the Year. NPA Innovation Award, National Parking Association - Miami Museum Garage{{Cite web|url=https://weareparking.org/page/Innovation18_Winners#Facility|title=Innovation Awards Winners 2018 - National Parking Association|website=weareparking.org|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • Best Big Scale of the Year, AIA Miami Chapter, American Institute of Architects – Miami Museum Garage{{Cite web|url=https://www.floridaconstructionnews.com/aia-miami-presents-outstanding-design-awards-at-gala/|title=AIA Miami presents Outstanding Design Awards at gala {{!}} Florida Construction News|last=Buckshon|first=Mark|date=8 November 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • Honorable Mention, Best of Design Award, The Architect's Newspaper{{Cite web|url=https://archpaper.com/2018/12/announcing-the-winners-2018-an-best-of-design-awards/|title=Announcing the winners of the 2018 AN Best of Design Awards|date=2018-12-05|website=Archpaper.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • Parking Structure Design Awards of Excellence, Florida Parking & Transportation Association – Miami Museum Garage{{Cite web|url=https://flapta.org/2019/08/13/2018-winners/|title=2018 Winners – Florida Parking & Transportation Association|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • GarageMASterworks Award, Best New Urban Amenity, Municipal Arts Society – Kew Gardens Hills Library{{Cite web|url=https://www.mas.org/awards/masterworks/|title=MASterworks|website=MAS|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • AIA NY Architecture Merit Award - Kew Gardens Hills Library{{Cite web|url=https://www.aiany.org/architecture/awards/2018-aiany-design-awards/|title=2018 AIANY Design Awards|website=AIA New York|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}

=2017=

  • #1 Design Firm, Architect 50, Architect Magazine{{Cite web|url=https://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/architect-50/the-2017-architect-50_o|title=The 2017 Architect 50|website=www.architectmagazine.com|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • Game Changers 2017, Metropolis Magazine{{Cite web|url=https://www.metropolismag.com/ideas/game-changers-2017/|title=Introducing the Game Changers of 2017|date=2017-01-20|website=Metropolis|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • ArchDaily Building of the Year – Stealth Building{{Cite web|url=https://boty.archdaily.com/us/2016/candidates/105464/the-stealth-building-workac|title=Building of the Year 2017|website=Building of the Year 2017|access-date=2019-10-02}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • AIA NY Architecture Merit Award – Stealth Building{{Cite web|url=https://www.aiany.org/architecture/awards/2017-aiany-design-award/|title=2017 AIANY Design Awards|website=AIA New York|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}

=2016=

  • New Generation Leader, Architectural Record Women in Architecture Award{{cite web|url=http://www.arwomeninarchitecture.com/index.php/2016-award-recipients |title=2016 Women in Architecture Award Recipients |publisher=Architectural Record |access-date=2016-12-05}}
  • "From A to Zaha: 26 Women Who Changed Architecture," Architizer{{Cite web|url=https://architizer.com/blog/inspiration/industry/from-a-to-zaha-26-women-who-changed-architecture/|title=From A to Zaha: 26 Women Who Changed Architecture - Architizer Journal|date=2018-03-05|website=Journal|language=en|access-date=2019-10-10}}

=2015=

  • AIA New York State Firm of the Year{{Cite web|url=http://www.aianys.org/programs-events/honor-awards-guidelines/honor-awards-recipients/|title=Honor Award Past Recipients {{!}} American Institute of Architects, New York State|date=22 September 2015|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • Arch Daily 2015 Building of the Year – Wieden+Kennedy Offices{{Cite web|url=https://boty.archdaily.com/us/2015|title=Building of the Year 2015|website=Building of the Year 2015|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • AIA New York State Honor Award for Urban Design – Beijing Horticultural Expo Masterplan{{Cite web|url=https://www.aiany.org/about/press-releases/aia-new-york-announces-2015-design-award-winners/|title=AIA New York Announces 2015 Design Award Winners|website=AIA New York|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • Award for Excellence in Design – New York City Public Design Commission – Issue Project Room{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/designcommission/awards/past-awards/design-awards-33-txt.page|title=design-awards-33-txt|website=www1.nyc.gov|access-date=2019-10-02}}

=2014=

  • Interior Design Best Of Year Award – Wieden+Kennedy Offices{{Cite web|url=https://www.interiordesign.net/articles/8717-best-of-year-2014-project-winners/|title=Best of Year 2014: Project Winners|last=Staff|first=Interior Design|date=2014-12-05|website=Interior Design|language=en-us|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • 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{{Cite web|url=https://www.world-architects.com/en/architecture-news/headlines/2014-masterworks-awards|title=2014 MASterworks Awards -|website=World-Architects|language=en|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • AIA NY Merit Interior Architecture Award – Wieden+Kennedy Offices{{Cite web|url=https://www.aiany.org/news/aiany-2014-design-awards/|title=AIANY 2014 Design Awards|website=AIA New York|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}

=2013=

  • AIA NY Merit Interior Architecture Award – Children's Museum of the Arts{{Cite web|url=http://www.archdaily.com/342854/2013-aia-new-york-design-awards/|title=Design Awards: 2013 AIA New York Design Awards|date=2013-03-13|website=ArchDaily|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • AIA NY Merit Award for Urban Design – New Holland Island{{Cite web|url=http://www.archdaily.com/342854/2013-aia-new-york-design-awards/|title=Design Awards: 2013 AIA New York Design Awards|date=2013-03-13|website=ArchDaily|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • AIA Houston Merit Award for Renovation – Blaffer Art Museum{{Cite web|url=https://www.uh.edu/facilities-planning-construction/news-events/awards/aia-houston-design-awards-2013/index|title=AIA Houston Design Awards 2013|website=www.uh.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • City of Houston "Best Of" Awards: Best College Campus Building, and Best Artistic Renovation – Blaffer Art Museum

=2010=

  • Award for Excellence in Design – New York City Public Design Commission{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/designcommission/awards/past-awards/design-awards-28.page|title=Design Commission - Twenty-Eighth Annual Design Awards|website=www1.nyc.gov|access-date=2019-10-02}}

=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{{Cite web|url=http://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2008/52760/|title=The Top Ten Designs - The 2008 Culture Awards -- New York Magazine - Nymag|website=New York Magazine|date=4 December 2008 |language=en-us|access-date=2019-10-02}}
  • 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 – MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center

=2007=

  • "New York Designs" – Architectural League

=2006=

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

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External links

  • {{official website|http://work.ac/}}

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