Rafi Segal

Rafi Segal is an architect and urbanist whose work integrates architecture and urban design to address social, economic, and environmental challenges across the scales of buildings, neighborhoods, cities, and regions. Segal is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at MIT, where his research and teaching explore how design can strengthen communities, collective space, and civic life.

Segal’s projects include the Ashdod Museum of Art, the winning proposal for the National Library of Israel, and Bight: Coastal Urbanism, a regional proposal addressing climate change in metropolitan New York. His writing and research examine architecture, urbanism, and contested territories, and his work has been exhibited internationally.

Segal holds degrees from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and a PhD from Princeton University. Prior to MIT, he taught at Harvard, Columbia, and Cooper Union.