The Architects Series Ep. 04 - A documentary on: WORKac

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The fourth episode of The Architects Series has been displayed on September 2018 in Milano and it's about Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, founders of WORKac.
Partners in life and work, they head a team of 20 architects in the Big Apple, in a studio that has grown to become one of the most influential in the field in only twenty years, selected in 2017 by Architect Magazine as the top design firm in the United States and winner of prestigious awards such as the “New York State Firm of The Year” in 2016.
In the last fifteen years, WORKac has developed more than 60 projects involving the disciplines of architecture, urban planning and interior design with a unique style; the studio has worked not only in the United States but in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, confirming its widelyrecognised and appreciated approach.
WORKac is the product of a brilliant synergy combining a rigorous modus operandi based on achievement of specific goals with its founders’ illustrious academic careers.
Amale Andraos is the Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, while Dan Wood has been teaching for some time, recently held the post of Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Toronto and was in the past appointed to the Louis I. Kahn Chair at the School of Architecture at Yale and the Friedman Professorship at UC. The result of this effective contamination permits constant development of studies and theories of design applied to the studio’s work.
The key to the two founders’ philosophy is their commitment to sustainability, extending well beyond the sphere of building technologies to aim for integration of functions combining architecture, landscape design and ecological systems: an innovative way of looking beyond that overcomes all physical, temporal and cultural barriers and aims to establish new relationships among only apparently different worlds.
An ambitious goal that views architecture not only as a merely technical and practical exercise, but as a cross-cutting discipline embracing both technology and culture, giving life to colourful, visionary and highly creative projects based on assessment of the expected results and on cutting-edge ecological systems and infrastructure: key requirements that inspire WORKac’s approach, permitting development of unusual concepts with international players.

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