Amale Andraos is the Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning and Preservation. 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 representation in the age of global practice. Her recent
publications include 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, 2015) 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.
Andraos is co-founder of WORKac, a New York-based firm that focuses on architectural
projects that reinvent the relationship between urban and natural environments. WORKac was recently named the #1 design firm
in the United States by Architect Magazine and has also been recognized as the AIA New York State Firm of the Year. WORKac
has achieved international acclaim for projects such as the Miami Museum Garage in Miami’s Design District, The Edible Schoolyards
at P.S. 216 in Brooklyn and P.S. 7 in Harlem, a public library for Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, the Stealth Building in New
York and a new student center for the Rhode Island School of Design. Current projects include a large-scale residential development
in Lebanon, the Beirut Museum of Art in Lebanon, a new public library for North Boulder Colorado and new offices for a headquarter
bank in Lima, Peru.
Andraos has taught at numerous institutions including the Princeton University,
Harvard University, and the American University in Beirut. She serves on the board of the Architectural League of New York,
the AUB Faculty of Engineering and Architecture International Advisory Committee, and the New Museum’s New INC. Advisory Council,
in New York.
This academic year SLIVER is presenting a "Mixtape" by our junior faculty who contributed
with their professional interests and pedagogical objectives. The winter term is a collection of architects, artists, and
theoreticians whose work is circulating through the IoA in form of theoretical underpinnings, built references, and research
ambitions.