Elias Anastas is a French-Palestinian architect and designer. He studied architecture at l’Ecole d’architecture de Paris Val de Seine where he received a master’s degree in 2007. In 2009, he won the first prize for the Edward Said National Conservatory in Bethlehem and, back in Bethlehem, followed the construction of the project. In 2014, he was honoured with the ‘Europe 40under40’ award for young European architects. In 2011, Elias founded Local Industries, a project born from the desire to put direct collaboration with local artisans at the heart of the process and to look for ways to minimise energy consumption for the creation and production of industrial design.
Source: Berlanda, Tomà, editor. Architecture of Commonality, Grounds for Hope. Berlin: ArchiTangle, 2024.