WORKac

Principals

Amale Andraos AIA HFRAIC co-founded WORKac in 2003 with Dan Wood. She is the President and CEO of the firm as well as a Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), where she recently served as an Advisor on the 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. Her publications include The Arab City: Architecture and Representation, a critical engagement of contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Middle East.

Andraos has served on numerous juries, advisory, and selection committees, including most recently as Chair of the Aga Khan Award, and is currently serving on the Advisory Council for the New Museum’s incubator space, New Inc, in New York. She is a licensed architect in the State of New York and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (HFRAIC). Andraos was born in Beirut, Lebanon.

Dan Wood FAIA co-founded WORKac in 2003 with Amale Andraos. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the Former Vice President for Design Excellence of the New York Chapter of the AIA. Wood is a licensed architect in the States of New York, Rhode Island, and Colorado and is LEED certified.

Wood has taught extensively, most recently at Columbia University, where he is an associate adjunct professor. He held the 2023 Davenport Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture, the 2017 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Toronto and the 2013–14 Louis I. Kahn Chair at the Yale School of Architecture. He also held both the Trott and Baumer Visiting Professorships at Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture and the Friedman Professorship at UC Berkeley. Wood is originally from Rhode Island.

Additional Team Members

• Claudia Anselmo da Costa, Associate
• Matt Voss, Associate
• Daniel Confroy, Director of Communications and Marketing
• Wuyahuang Li, Project Manager/Project Lead
• Yasamin Mayyas
• Sam Bonnell-Kangas
• Lalin Maholarnkij
• Sarah Sioufi
• Jae Sung Lee
• Jenna Hussain
• Do Yeon Kim
• Drew Pankey-Wallace
• Claudia Aguado
• Leisa Mullen, Bookkeeper
• Tracy Scott, Office Manager
• Luna, Office Pup