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 exhibited widely, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Chicago Architecture Biennale, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale, MoMa, 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 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. Wood has taught extensively, most recently as an adjunct associate at Columbia GSAPP and Yale School of Architecture. Their publications include Buildings for People and Plants, We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge, 49 Cities and Above the Pavement, the Farm!