Amale Andraos/WORKac
"Buildings, People, Plants"
The 28th Pietro Belluschi Lecture
Amale Andraos, principal of WORKac and professor and dean emeritus at Columbia GSAPP will present her practice’s recent work in a lecture entitled ‘Buildings, People, Plants.’ Andraos ‘s lecture will focus on a series of projects that re-examine architecture’s capacities to actively reshape social and environmental concerns- building on the practice’s focus on public work across scales and contexts to its focus on innovative approaches to preservation, sustainable systems, and a greater integration of architecture and landscape at the scale of buildings, amongst other.
Amale Andraos HFRAIC co-founded WORKac in 2003 with Dan Wood. She is a Principal of the firm as well as a Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University, where she recently served as an Advisor on the University’s Climate Initiatives and for the newly-launched Climate School. Her publications include The Arab City: Architecture and Representation, a critical engagement of contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Middle East.
WORKac is committed to creating architecture that engages environmental and social concerns with a focus on public, cultural and civic projects. The practice has achieved international acclaim for projects such as the Edible Schoolyards in Brooklyn and Harlem, a public library for Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, the Miami Museum Garage, the Student Success Center at the Rhode Island School of Design, a new branch for the Brooklyn Public Library in DUMBO, and two community centers in Mexico City in collaboration with IUA. Current projects include the Beirut Museum of Art in Lebanon, a Public Library for Boulder, Colorado, a new commercial building in Mission Bay, San Francisco, and a new space for the Peoples Theater Project, in Inwood, New York City.
Lectures are free and open to the public.
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