Yousef Anastas is a French-Palestinian architect and engineer. He studied architecture at l’Ecole d’architecture de la ville et des territories, where he received a master’s degree in 2011. He pursued a degree in civil engineering and graduated from l’Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees in 2014. That same year, he conducted research at the Form Finding Lab of Princeton University on biomimetic building skins. In 2014, he was awarded the ‘Europe 40under40’ award for young European architects. He is currently leading AAU Anastas’ research department, SCALES, which is a research laboratory that is consistently enhanced by linking scales that are otherwise opposed.
Source: Berlanda, Tomà, editor. Architecture of Commonality, Grounds for Hope. Berlin: ArchiTangle, 2024.