YASA


 YASA is an architectural practice and design consultancy based in NYC, Founded by Yasamin Mayyas as an investigative platform exploring the intersection of architecture, urbanism, culture, technology and nature.  The practice focuses on a research based design that aims at rethinking the role of  design as a generative and performative agent. 
   Yasamin Mayyas is an architect and urbanist based in New York City. She graduated with a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. During her studies, Yasamin was a Research Associate at the GSD. She also holds a Bachelor's of Architecture from Jordan University of Science and Technology. Her thesis focused on the confluence between architecture, urbanism and recreation rethinking the theme park typology not merely as places of entertainment but as contributors to larger urban processes and cognitive simulation of the community. 
   She has worked on projects of various range of programs and scales including urban, institutional, cultural, residential and high rise design. She works at Bjarke Angels Group prior to that she worked at LTL Architects, Sou Fujimoto Architect in Tokyo, Toshiko Mori Architect where she was working on an institutional project for Watson Institute of Public and International Affairs expansion in Brown University. She also worked at Inaba Williams in New York. Prior to pursuing her graduate studies she worked for Nikken Sekkei in Dubai, Sahel Al Hiyari Architect and Sigma architects in Jordan.