WORKac

Principals

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, a critical engagement of contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Middle East.

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.

Dan Wood FAIA co-founded WORKac in 2003 with Amale Andraos. He is a Principal of the firm, 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. His publications include 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 Amale Andraos.

Wood has taught extensively, most recently at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), and as the William B. and Charlotte Shepherd Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale School of Architecture. He held 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.

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• Kaitlin Beckham, Senior Associate
• Claudia Anselmo da Costa, Senior Associate
• Tanisha Sheth, Director of Communications and Marketing
• Wuyahuang Li
• Sam Bonnell-Kangas
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• Sarah Sioufi
• Jae Sung Lee
• Sachio Badham
• Jenna Hussain
• Wooseok Jang
• Catherine McCoy
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