Chris Youssef

Interior Designer
Perkins+Will

Chris Youssef is an interior designer at Perkins+Will with ten years of experience. A champion and specialist for sustainable materials research and analysis in the firm, Chris works with project teams to determine the impact of materials on the health of humans and the environment. He additionally possesses extensive experience in designing healthy interior environments for a wide variety of healthcare projects. Chris is the primary author of the Perkins+Will Precautionary List, a list of common chemicals used in the building industry that pose health risks. The goal of the Precautionary List is to educate designers, architects, and others in the world of buildings about the chemicals, their dangers and alternatives, as well as and spur the creation of alternatives where they currently do not exist. In addition he has contributed extensive research on plastics and their effect on human health and In 2010, Peter contributed to the Asthma Report for the National Institutes of Health.