Yiannis Armeftis was born in 1971 in Thessaloniki and grew up in Limassol- Cyprus. He graduated from the department of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece in 1994. In 1995 he created his own architectural practice in Limassol which in 2020 became the partnership Armeftis Partners. Since 2021 the practice has expanded in Athens, Greece.