Lecture by Amale Andraos, Work Architecture Company, New York, and Dean, GSAPP, Columbia.

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Amale Andraos has lived in Saudi Arabia, France, Canada and the Netherlands before moving to New York in 2002. Co-founder of New York’s WORKac, a 35-person architectural firm focusing on re-inventing the relationship between urban and natural environments, Andraos is the newly appointed dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Since the founding of workac in 2003, the firm has achieved international acclaim for projects such as the master plan for the New Holland Island Cultural Center in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wieden+Kennedy’s 50,000 sq ft, three-story New York offices and the Children’s Museum of the Arts in Manhattan.

Lectures are free and open to the public. The SALA Lecture Series qualifies for British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects Continuing Education Credits. Members of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada may self-report this activity for Learning Unit consideration.