On Tuesday, August 12, Columbia University announced that New York-based architect Amale Andraos has been named the 13th dean of its Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning (GSAPP). Andraos, who was born in Beirut and has practiced in Montreal, Paris, and Rotterdam, has been an associate professor at the school since 2011. Andraos will assume the position on September 1, replacing Mark Wigley, who announced his retirement in September 2013. Andraos has also taught at Harvard University, Princeton University, Parsons School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania, the New York Institute of Technology, and the American University of Beirut.

Andraos is a principal at WORKac, the architecture firm that she runs with her husband, Dan Wood. Established in 2003, WORKac is interested in positing architecture at the intersection of the urban, the rural, and the natural.