Co-founded by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, WORKac believes in the power of architecture and design to engage environmental and social concerns, and to create new possibilities for the future. Our work throughout the US and around the world emphasizes a deep engagement with local cultures, climates and histories. Our focus is on public, cultural, and civic projects that re-invent how we live, work and experience the world together. We aim to integrate architecture, landscape, and ecological systems and draw resolute realism together with polemical optimism to move beyond the projected and towards the possible.
WORKac has been named the #1 design firm in the US by Architect Magazine and selected as the AIA New York State “Firm of the Year.” 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.
WORKac has been exhibited widely including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Chicago Architecture Biennale, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong biennale, the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Canadian Center for Architecture, the Design Museum, London, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Museum Brugge, and at the Sharp Family Gallery at the Olana State Historic Site.
Andraos and Wood are committed educators. Andraos is professor and dean emeritus at Columbia GSAPP where she recently served as Advisor to the Climate School. Wood has taught extensively, and is currently an adjunct associate at GSAPP. Their publications include We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge, 49 Cities and Above the Pavement, the Farm!
