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Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced his appointment of Amale Andraos as the next dean of the University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She is an associate professor of architecture, planning and preservation at the School and a principal at WORKac, a New York-based firm devoted to projects that seek to reinvent relationships between urban and natural environments. The appointment is effective on September 1.

“An inspiring teacher, a respected colleague, and a pioneering practitioner whose innovative commissions in cities around the world have earned widespread admiration, Amale is a new leader among a rising generation of creative architects and designers of our physical environment,” said Bollinger. “She is just the kind of person who can further expand the role of the School as a center of interdisciplinary thinking across Columbia about how to develop a more just and sustainable society.”

Andraos is a leading voice on urbanism and globalization, and related environmental and social concerns. She has written and presented widely on these ideas while applying them in practice. Some of the noteworthy projects she has worked on include a new conference center in Gabon, the master plan for seven new university campuses in China, the Blaffer Museum in Houston, the Children’s Museum of the Arts in Manhattan, and the Edible Schoolyards at P.S. 216 in Brooklyn and P.S. 7 in Harlem....Continue Reading

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