Rafi Segal

Rafi Segal is an architect and Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he directs MIT’s Future Urban Collective Lab. His work engages design and research at architectural, urban, and regional scales, with a focus on how emerging forms of collectivity are reshaping buildings, infrastructure, and cities. His practice, RSA+U, is currently leading projects across the U.S. and Europe, moving into construction with projects like Carehaus, the first care-based co-housing model in Chicago and Baltimore, U.S.; Art-Tek Tulltorja, the transformation of a former brick factory in Prishtina, Kosovo into a cultural and innovation hub; several private residences on the cycladic island of Andros, Greece; public art installations with artist Marisa Morán Jahn. Segal has exhibited his work widely, most notably at Kunst Werk, Berlin; Rotterdam Architecture Biennale; Venice Biennale of Architecture; MoMA in New York; Storefront for Art and Architecture in NYC; and at the Hong Kong/Shenzhen Urbanism Biennale. His writings and exhibitions have provided a critical contribution to the relationships between architecture, changing social and political conditions, and the city at large. He holds a PhD from Princeton University and two degrees, M.Sc and B.Arch, from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.