Amale Andraos, professor and dean emerita of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University in New York City, has received the Academic Excellence Award from the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation.
Professor Andraos served as the first woman dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation from 2014 to 2021. In her research, she focuses on climate change and its impact on architecture. She also examines representation in the age of global practice. Professor Andraos is the author of numerous publications, including We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge (The Monacelli Press, 2017), a survey of the projects that define her architecture firm, WORKac. The New York-based organization, co-founded by Andraos and her partner, Dan Wood, focuses on projects that reinvent the relationship between urban and natural environments.
Throughout her career, Professor Andraos has taught at several higher education institutions, including Princeton University, Harvard University, and the American University in Beirut. A native of Lebanon, she holds a bachelor’s degree from the McGill University School of Architecture in Montreal and a master of architecture degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.