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Amale Andraos

Amale Andraos, AIA, is Professor and Dean Emeritus of Columbia GSAPP. She served as Dean from 2014 to 2021, the first woman to lead the school, and has also served as Architecture Advisor to the President and Special Advisor for the Columbia Climate School. 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 the Arab City and its representations. Her recent publications include Buildings for People and Plants (Park Books, 2025), 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, 2016) 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. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and was recently awarded Academic Excellence Honoree of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation.

Andraos is co-founder of WORKac, a New York-based firm whose work asks who design is for and what it can give back, reinventing the relationship between urban and natural environments. WORKac received a 2023 Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, has been named the #1 design firm in the US by Architect Magazine, and was selected as the AIA New York State Firm of the Year. The practice has achieved international acclaim for projects such as Public Farm 1 at MoMA PS1, the Edible Schoolyards in Brooklyn and Harlem, 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. Its work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, MoMA, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Current projects include the Beirut Museum of Art in Lebanon, a new space for the Peoples Theater Project in Inwood, New York City, and the renovation of Sibley Dome at the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning in Ithaca, New York.

Born in Beirut, Andraos has taught at numerous institutions including Princeton University, Harvard University, and the American University in Beirut. She served on the Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and on the board of the Architectural League of New York. She currently serves on 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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Abstract 2021

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Abstract 2020

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Abstract 2019

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Amale Andraos

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Modeling History

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Kenneth Frampton

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Abstract 2016

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Amale Andraos

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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	Student Work	Instructor	Syllabus	Requirements & Sequence	Location & Time	Session & Points	Call No.
ARCH4105‑2	Fall 2026	Architecture Studio V		Amale Andraos		AAD + M.Arch III Only Architecture Studio AAD Studio	600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery M, TH 1:30 PM - 6:30 PM, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM	Full Semester 0 Points	10409