AAU ANASTAS

atelier d'architecture et d'urbanisme anastas // www.aauanastas.com Thinking of a project as a process is the only common thread running through our work.

Founded in 1979, AAU Anastas is a wholly owned Palestinian architectural and engineering practice with offices in Bethlehem and in Paris. Beginning the thinking of a project at the opposite end of the planning spectrum, from the bottom up, helps us merge into the deep understanding of local know-hows, and capacities of widening or subverting the initial end result to new uses. We consider the proc

09/11/2025

Lancement du livre “Parlement de la recherche”
mercredi 26 nov. 2025 de 19h à 20h30 à

La Librairie accueille le lancement du Parlement de la recherche - ce que peut l’architecture, un livre issu d’une expérience collective inédite réunissant 22 architectes et chercheur·ses internationaux·les au couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette.
Imaginé par le Fonds de dotation Quartus pour l’architecture, en partenariat avec le ministère de la Culture, et piloté par le duo de commissaires l’AUC et MBL architectes, ce huis clos de 48 heures a offert un moment suspendu, hors du temps, pour repenser les enjeux contemporains de l’architecture.

De cette retraite est né un livre dense et foisonnant : la transcription intégrale des débats et échanges qui ont animé ce Parlement de la recherche. On y découvre des idées, des engagements et des questionnements partagés autour d’une même interrogation : que peut l’architecture aujourd’hui ?

Publié aux Éditions Caryatide dans la collection Constellation, l’ouvrage rassemble les contributions de : Yousef Anastas, Estelle Barriol, Iwona Buczkowska, Gilles Delalex, Nicola Delon, Susanne Eliasson, Ambra Fabi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Kersten Geers, Samia Henni, Djamel Klouche, Jeannette Kuo, Alexandre Labasse, Benjamin Lafore, Cédric Libert, Sébastien Martinez-Barat, Caroline Poulin, Carin Smuts, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Charlotte Truwant, Chloé Valadié et Riken Yamamoto.

02/03/2023

Stone Matters in the current issue of “Pierre de lutte” article by Anastasia de Villepin

An article dedicated to our dear friend and collaborator that sadly left us last month - may his soul rest in peace.

09/02/2023

Maurizio Brocato was my friend and mentor, who always seemed to guide me into some astonishing and foolhardy endeavors.

Maurizio was not only an optimistic genius but also a way of doing, of thinking, of talking to people and creating relationships. He was an uncompromising resistant of an infinite optimism.

With Maurizio, we worked with stonemasons - ex pizzaiolos - that converted to the production of Corinthian and Flamboyant stone capitals, we built a fragmented slab - he never liked saying ‘flat vault’ - that is earthquake-resistant without any construction permit, we transported 5 meters tall structures that weighed more than 5000 kg on a truck along a 45 degrees sloped road, we hired the most famous DJ in Bethlehem because he had enough muscles to drill perfectly straight cores in a hard stone, we built a structure with stones of a 19th century demolished building, we exhibited at the Venice Biennale with a structure whose calculations were complete after production and right before mounting, we were astonished by the results every time although we were certain of what we were doing.During a workshop we gave in France, the students thought I was Maurizio’s son, he never told them it was not true. When my son was born, he told me “Grandpa is happy”.

We are ready today to honor his spirit in each of our achievements. We are ready to make him proud with all our strength.

An hour dedicated to you Maurizio tonight at 19:30 Bethlehem time on

07/02/2023

While We Wait, 2017
Limestone
200x150x500
Commissioned by

03/02/2023

nominated for the building of year

Link to vote in bio

22/01/2023

stone matters table 2022
220 X 85 X 72

limestone and massive oak wood

Stone matters is an experimentations-based research into the potentials for including structural stone in the language of contemporary architecture
and for combining traditional craftsmanship and materials with innovative construction techniques. First born as a reaction to a systematic misuse
of clad stone in Palestine, the project takes its cue from the historic reoccurrence of stone-made architectural elements found in Palestine.

20/01/2023

If you’re in Lisbon next week come to on Friday 27th at 6pm — entangled thinking / clouding sounds a panel talk as part of the current exhibition of .faustino exist/resist curated by .2084

Portrait by Adrianne De Souza

Panel talk to be followed by a sound performance with and .faustino at 7pm