Yohana Ansari-Thomas is a designer(-builder-researcher) based in Brooklyn, New York. Prior, he worked as a designer (etc.) in Oakland, California.

He's interested in the historical and material forces latent in our tools, techniques, and tectonic expressions, with a typological focus on adaptive reuse. Projects span art fabrication, buildings, custom hardware, exhibitions, furniture, installations, and written scholarship. He has contributed work shown at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Art Omi, New York Fashion Week, and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, among others. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University, where he received the School of Architecture's History and Theory Thesis Prize and the Howard Crosby Butler Travel Fellowship.

Having taught graduate and undergraduate courses in architecture, urban studies, and media studies, he is currently an Adjunct Lecturer with the New York City College of Technology's Department of Architecture.