Amale andraos biography books
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Holding Together: WORKac's Amale Andraos on Focused Creativity, Setbacks, Advances, and Generosity
By Julia Gamolina
Amale Andraos FRAIC co-founded WORKac in with Dan Wood. She is a Principal of the firm and also a Professor and Dean Emerita 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 lectures widely. Her publications include The Arab City: Architecture and Representation, a critical engagement of contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Middle East, We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge, an overview of the firm’s first fifteen years of practice, and 49 Cities, a re-reading of 49 visionary urban plans through an ecological lens.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?
AA: I was born in Beirut, and at age three — a year after the war broke in Lebanon — moved to Al Khobar in Saudi Arabia. My f
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As a woman, immigrant, and the first female dean of Columbia University's architecture school, Amale Andraos is breaking down barriers.
Amale Andraos is dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation—and the first woman to hold that position. She is also the cofounder of the New York firm WORKac with her husband, Dan Wood.
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Andraos developed a passion for architecture while watching her father, architect and artist Farid Andraos, at work. She has lived in Saudi Arabia, France, Canada, and the Netherlands (where she worked for Rem Koolhaas at OMA).
Her publications include 49 Cities, a rereading of 49 visionary plans through an ecological lens (Inventory Press, 3rd edition, ), Above the Pavement, the Farm! (Princeton Architectural Press, ), and The Arab City: Architecture and Representation (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, ).
At Columbia, she has been described, in a DesignIntelligence profile naming her one of the 25 most admired educators of , as integrating "real-world problems into the curriculum with a bold vision and strong leadership."
At WORKac, she helped