AAU Anastas

AAU Anastas is an architectural studio founded by brothers Elias and Yousef Anastas, with offices on Karkafeh Street in Bethlehem, Palestine, and in rue Robert de Flers, Paris. The practice works between architecture, crafts and territorial exploration, at scales that range from furniture to landscape, and has long advocated a contemporary use of structural stone.

That research takes shape in Stone Matters, a long-term experimental programme that rereads the history of stone construction to extend what can be built with it today, and in real-scale prototypes — a vault, a lintel, a slab, a wall — where local cutting and masonry meet new technology; its latest iteration is Tiamat. Projects include The Wonder Cabinet in Bethlehem, the Hebron Courts Complex, a flat stone vault in Jericho, MMAG Art Foundation and While We Wait for the V&A.