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The exhibition 'Water Works' of the renowned American architectural firm WORKac in the Poortersloge opens its doors on 26 May 2020. Below you can find the interview with Amale Andraos and Dan Wood on the occasion of the official opening and videos of the exhibition.
WORKac is the internationally-renowned, New-York based architectural firm of Amale Andraos and Dan Wood. Amale Andraos is Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Planning and Preservation. In the exhibition, WORKac focuses on its own projects and such key concepts as sustainability and circular architecture, urban farming, zero emission buildings and zero waste. The practical application of water, the use and re-use by users/occupants plays an instrumental role in this. In addition to its own projects, WORKac will also examine the Floating Cities of the legendary American architects Ant Farm.
In collaboration with Cultuurcentrum Brugge and WORKac
Open from tuesday to sunday
From 13.00 to 18.00h
Free
The interview with Amale Andraos and Dan Wood during the opening ceremony may be viewed below.
Amale Andraos
Amale Andraos is a co-founder of WORKac and a principal of the firm. She is also professor and dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Andraos is committed to design research and her writings have focused on climate change and its impact on architecture as well as on the question of representation in the age of global practice.
Andraos has taught at numerous institutions including the Princeton University School of Architecture, the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the American University in Beirut. She serves on the board of the Architectural League of New York, the AUB Faculty of Engineering and Architecture International Advisory Committee and the New Museum’s New Inc. Advisory Council.
Her recent publications include 'Architecture and Representation: the Arab City', co-edited with Nora Akawi, as well as 'We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge', a 'duograph' for the practice in conversation with Dan Wood.
Dan Wood
Dan Wood, FAIA, LEED AP, is a co-founder of WORKac and a principal of the firm with extensive experience leading large scale and complex US and international projects. Wood was the 2017 Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto Daniels School of Architecture as well as the 2013-14 Louis I. Kahn Chair at the Yale School of Architecture. He is currently an adjunct associate professor at Columbia GSAPP and has taught at the Princeton University School of Architecture, Penn Design and the UC Berkeley School of Environmental Design, where he was the Friedman Distinguished Chair. Wood is a licensed architect in the State of New York, Colorado and Rhode Island.
His publications include '49 Cities and Above the Pavement the Farm!' Both co-authored with Amale Andraos. He is currently the Vice President for Design Excellence on the board of the New York AIA chapter.
Photography: Piet Goethals
