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Amale Andraos

Amale Andraos is Professor and Dean Emeritus of Columbia GSAPP. She served as Dean from 2014 to 2021. 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. Her recent publications include We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge (Monacelli Press, 2017), Architecture and Representation: the Arab City (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2015) co-edited with Nora Akawi, 49 Cities (Inventory Press, 2015), and Above the Pavement, the Farm! (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010) in collaboration with Dan Wood.

Andraos is co-founder of WORKac, a New York-based firm that focuses on architectural projects that reinvent the relationship between urban and natural environments. WORKac has been named the #1 design firm in the US by Architect Magazine and selected as the AIA New York State “Firm of the Year.” The practice has achieved international acclaim for projects such as the Edible Schoolyards in Brooklyn and Harlem, a public library for Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, the Miami Museum Garage, the Student Success Center at the Rhode Island School of Design, a new branch for the Brooklyn Public Library in DUMBO, and two community centers in Mexico City in collaboration with IUA. Current projects include the Beirut Museum of Art in Lebanon, a Public Library for Boulder, Colorado, a new commercial building in Mission Bay, San Francisco, a new space for the Peoples Theater Project, Inwood, New York City, and the renovation of the Sibley Dome at the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning in Ithaca, New York.

Andraos has taught at numerous institutions including Princeton University, Harvard University, and the American University in Beirut. She serves on the board of the Architectural League of New York, the AUB Faculty of Engineering and Architecture International Advisory Committee, and the New Museum’s New INC. Advisory Council, in New York.

Recent work

Kew Gardens Library, Queens (2017)

Edible Schoolyard, P.S. 216, Brooklyn (2014)

Elevation for L’Assemblée Radieuse, Libreville, Gabon (2014, under construction)

93 Reade Street, New York (2014)

New Holland Island Cultural Center, St. Petersburg, Russia (2014, Masterplan)

Publications

Columbia Books on
Architecture and the City

Columbia in Manhattanville

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Caitlin Blanchfield

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Abstract 2021

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Abstract 2020

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Abstract 2019

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Modeling History

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Kenneth Frampton

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Abstract 2016

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The Arab City: Architecture and Representation

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Amale Andraos, Nora Akawi

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Abstract 2015

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Courses

Course	Semester	Title	Instructor	Syllabus	Requirements & Sequence	Location & Time	Session & Points	Call No.
A4105‑2	Fall 2025	Advanced Studio V	Amale Andraos		Architecture Studio AAD Studio Architecture Required	600 + 700 AVERY	FULL SEMESTER	10631
A6454‑1	Spring 2025	The Arab City	Amale Andraos	Syllabus		409 AVERY M 10:30- 1 PM	First Class on 2/17- End of the semester 3 Points	20443
A6973‑1	Spring 2025	49 CITIES	Amale Andraos	Syllabus	Design Seminar Architecture Elective	409 AVERY F 10:30 - 1 PM	Class begins on 2/21 - End of Semester 3 Points	20444