Yasmeen’s work considers the disciplines of architecture and design at their intersection with craft. Through the lens of material histories, she collects architectural stone remnants from building sites, and explores these materials within a framework of time, locale, and condition. With the provenance of these found materials as her point of departure she investigates their relation to larger systems of value and accrued, historic meaning. Using stone masonry and sculptural assemblage to conjure form, she revisits how these found materials perform under new circumstances while still alluding to the histories that came to shape them.

She is currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a recipient of the New Artist Society merit award. She previously completed a Bachelor of Architecture at The American University of Beirut.