WORKac, Principal/Founder, 2003–present
Columbia University GSAPP, Dean, 2014–2021
Rem Koolhaas/OMA, Rotterdam, NL, Architect, 1999–2003
Saucier + Perrotte Montreal, QC, Junior Architect, 1997
Atelier Big City, Montreal, QC, Junior Architect, 1996

Architecture

PUBLICATIONS BY AMALE ANDRAOS
Andraos, Amale, Akawi, Nora, eds., Architecture and Representation: The Arab City, (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2016).

Wallpaper* USA 300, 2024, 2023
Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, Academy of Arts and Letters, 2023
AN Interior Top 50 Award, The Architect’s Newspaper, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018
AD 100, Architectural Digest, 2021
WORKac #1 Design Firm in the US, Architecture Magazine, 2017
“Game Changers”, Metropolis, 2017
Architectural Record “Women in Architecture” award for the Generation Leader category, 2016
Architizer “From A to Zaha: 26 Women Who Changed Architecture,” 2016
AIA NY State Firm of the Year, 2015
National Design Award, Finalist Interiors Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, 2015
DesignIntelligence Top 25 Educators of 2015
Rene Moawad Foundation Award for contributions to architecture, 2015
“Best Of Year” Award, Interior Design Magazine, 2008
“Emerging Voices”, Architectural League of New York, 2008
Young Architects Program, MoMA/PS1 Contemporary Art Center, 2008
“Design Vanguard”, Architectural Record, 2006
“New Practices, New York”, AIA NY, 2006
Society, 2018
Award for Excellence in Design—New York City Public Design Commission, 2010

Amale Andraos AIA, HFRAIC co-founded WORKac in
2003 with Dan Wood. She is a Principal of the firm as
well as a Professor and Dean Emeritus of Columbia
University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning
and Preservation (GSAPP), and the first woman to
have become dean of the school. During her tenure
as dean, Andraos also served as Architecture Advisor
to the President and Special Advisor for the Climate
School. Andraos is recognized as a thought leader, contributing widely to the field through her lectures and writings. Her publications include Architecture and Representation: the Arab City, co-edited with Nora Akawi, and Buildings for People and Plants, We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge, 49 Cities, and Above the Pavement, the Farm! in collaboration with Dan Wood.Andraos has taught extensively and is currently on
the faculty at Columbia GSAPP. Andraos has served on numerous juries, advisory and selection committees. She currently serves on the Advisory Council for the New Museum’s incubator space New Inc, in New York. She recently served as the Chair of the Aga Khan award, was the President of the PHI Competition in Montreal, and until recently served on the Walton Foundation Committee, amongst others. Andraos was born in Beirut, Lebanon.