Dan Wood FAIA is the co-founder and principal of WORKac, an award-winning architecture and design practice, committed to creating architecture that engages environmental and social concerns with a particular emphasis on public, cultural and civic projects.
WORKac has achieved international acclaim for projects such as Marea in Lebanon, public libraries in Queens, Brooklyn, and North Boulder, Colorado, two PILARES Community Centers in Mexico City as well as the Student Success Center at RISD. Current projects include the Sibley Dome Renovation at Cornell, the People’s Theatre in New York and the Beirut Museum of Art as well as residential developments in Lebanon and Albania.
Wood is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the Former Vice President for Design Excellence of the New York Chapter of the AIA. He has taught extensively, most recently at Columbia GSAPP, and as the William B. and Charlotte Shepherd Davenport Visiting 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 Friedman Professorship at UC Berkeley. Wood is a licensed architect in the States of New York, Rhode Island, and Colorado.
