Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Cohen’s guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that is important to them. The result: surprising stories from great speakers. This installment of Person Place Thing will be a conversation with Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, Principals at WORKac.

For more information and to hear past episodes, visit PersonPlaceThing.org.

Speakers:
Amale Andraos, AIA, HFRAIC, Principal, WORKac
Dan Wood, FAIA, Principal, WORKac

Moderator:
Randy Cohen, Host, Person Place Thing

About the Speakers:
Amale Andraos, AIA, HFRAIC, co-founded WORKac in 2003 with Dan Wood, FAIA. She is the principal of the firm, a professor and dean emeritus of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), and the first woman to have become dean of the school. During her tenure as dean, Andraos also served as Architecture Advisor to the President and Special Advisor for the Climate School. Andraos is recognized as a thought leader, contributing widely to the field through her lectures and writings. Her publications include Architecture and Representation: the Arab City, co-edited with Nora Akawi. Andraos has served on numerous juries, advisory and selection committees. She currently serves on the Advisory Council for the New Museum’s incubator space New Inc, in New York. She recently served as the Chair of the Aga Khan award, and on the board of the Architectural League of New York, amongst others. Andraos was born in Beirut, Lebanon.

Dan Wood, FAIA, co-founded WORKac in 2003 with Amale Andraos, AIA, HFRAIC. He is a principal of the firm, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the Former Vice President for Design Excellence of the New York Chapter of the AIA. Wood is a licensed architect in New York, Rhode Island, and Colorado and LEED certified. His publications include We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge, 49 Cities, and Above the Pavement, the Farm! in collaboration with Amale Andraos. Wood has taught extensively, most recently at Columbia GSAPP, and as the William B. and Charlotte Shepherd Davenport Professor at Yale School of Architecture. He held the 2017 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Toronto and the 2013–14 Louis I. Kahn Chair at the Yale School of Architecture. He also held both the Trott and Baumer Visiting Professorships at The Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture and the Friedman Professorship at UC Berkeley. Wood is originally from Rhode Island.

Randy Cohen is an American writer and humorist who began his professional career writing for newspapers and magazines such as The New Yorker, Harpers, The Atlantic, and Young Love Comics. While Cohen is a writer of humor pieces, essays, and stories he is best known for “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for The New York Times Magazine between 1999 and 2011. His most recent book is entitled Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything.

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