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 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.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Helsinki city officials announced details of an open international design competition on Wednesday for a proposed new 130-million-euro museum along the South Harbor of the Finnish capital.

It is the first time the Guggenheim foundation has sought a design through an open competition. Malcolm Reading Consultants is managing the competition, which will be judged by a jury of 11 architectural experts and headed by Mark Wigley, dean of the graduate school of architecture at Columbia University. The competition will be conducted in two stages with anonymous submissions for Stage 1 due Sept. 10. The jury will select six finalists from these submissions and all entries will be viewable online.