2024-12-22T01:46:12-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150264624/amale-andraos-steps-down-as-dean-of-columbia-gsapp Katherine Guimapang 2021-05-20T16:10:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/07/07463969f6209bca9baf6f71f89db10a.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Today, academic and architectural practitioner Amale Andraos announces her decision to step down as Dean of&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/columbiagsapp" target="_blank">Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/106406329/amale-andraos-to-succeed-mark-wigley-as-gsapp-s-new-dean" target="_blank">After succeeding Mark Wigley as Dean in 2014</a>, Andraos has dedicated her time towards serving and improving the GSAPP community. During her seven-year tenure, she also ran her practice&nbsp;<a href="http://archinect.com/WORKac" target="_blank">WORKac</a>&nbsp;along with her husband, Dan Wood.</p> <p>Keen on strengthening the institution's connectivity to the city and fostering interdisciplinary collaborations between GSAPP and other disciplines, Andraos' continued involvement with the university will continue. In her open letter to the community, she notes that she will continue to serve the GSAPP community as a Special Advisor to the President. "Climate Change is one of the main reasons I accepted to serve as Dean seven years ago [...] I will be able to continue to advocate for our disciplines' urgent transformations so that they may help address the challenges already...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/150128955/unmentionables-symposium-features-an-exciting-list-of-speakers-and-participants Sponsor 2019-03-28T18:05:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ee/ee7a99d959b7ffd89a39572d63ae8e86.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><figure><strong></strong><a href="http://www.unmentionablessymposium.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/2d/2d45787a55c5e99ab66f27f4f03c8dcd.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></figure><p><strong>This post is brought to you by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.unmentionablessymposium.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Interior Architecture Department at Woodbury University School of Architecture</a></strong></p> <p>Returning to Los Angeles, the <em><a href="http://www.unmentionablessymposium.com/registration" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unmentionables Symposium</a></em> holds its second symposium event on April 6th. Organized by the Interior Architecture Department at <a href="https://archinect.com/woodbury" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Woodbury School of Architecture</a> the symposium brings together a broad range of notable thinkers and designers drawn from architecture, film, art, philosophy, and interior design.&nbsp;As a space and event, the <a href="http://www.unmentionablessymposium.com/registration" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2019 Unmentionables Symposium</a> will question the meaning of performance and its application to design and the built form. This year the symposium will feature keynote speakers Jane Rendell, Director of Architectural History and Theory, The&nbsp;Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and Joel Sanders, Principal of JSA and Director of the M.Arch II Program at&nbsp;Yale School of Architecture.&nbsp;</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b1/b1ac319c2e8e39f76b84408311e6fa25.JPG?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b1/b1ac319c2e8e39f76b84408311e6fa25.JPG?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Stalled! Image courtesy of Joel Sanders</figcaption></figure><p>Sanders will be presenting his highly anticipated project Stalled! during the s...</p>