Alexander Yusuf

Alexander Yusuf is a Somali-British architect. He is the founder and Director of the Villa and Mansion Architects international firm.
Personal life
For his post-secondary education, Yusuf attended the Kiev State University of Technical Building and Architecture in Kiev, Ukraine from 1988 to 1994. There, he earned a Masters of Science degree in Architecture, graduating with Honours. He subsequently matriculated at the College of North West London in 1994-95, where he obtained 6-City & Guilds certificates in Computer and Information Sciences, General, A. The next year, Yusuf earned 2-City & Guilds certificates in AutoCAD 2D, 3D and AutoCAD AEC, A at the City of Westminster College. He followed that in 1996-1997 with a certificate in computer graphic animation at the Richmond Upon Thames College. In 2000, Yusuf began postgraduate studies in architecture at the Kingston University in London, United Kingdom. He graduated from the institution the following year, earning a Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice in Architecture.
Yusuf speaks a number of languages, including Somali and English fluently.
Career
Early firms
Yusuf began his career in 1997, working for a number of major architectural firms headquartered in Britain. Among these companies were Broadway Malayan, CGL, HTA and PRC Architects. During his twelve years with these establishments, Yusuf gained significant on-site construction experience, in addition to substantial practical knowledge in commercial, residential and transport buildings, healthcare, and mixed use developments.
From 1998 to 2001, Yusuf completed various architectural projects for the Broadway Malayan firm, including the Imperial Wharf and the Smugglers Way in 1998, the Effra Site Phase-I and the Bourne Business Park in 2000, and the Camden Hill Reservoir in 2001.
Yusuf subsequently joined Horace Architects. There, he built the Queens Road in 2003, and the London Road the following year.
In 1998, he constructed the International Airport in Dodoma, Tanzania.
The firm's architects also have experience completing projects under complex or restrictive circumstances, such as under tight budgets, or in rural areas where there are no power supplies, mains drainage, mains water or gas, or where the plot of land is substandard and first needs to be attended to by a specialist.
Villa and Mansion Architects' UK offices are headquartered in Camberley, Surrey. Its East Africa offices are based in Mogadishu, Somalia.

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