Rafi Segal A+U

Rafi Segal Architecture Urbanism treats architecture and urbanism as inseparable, arguing that buildings cut off from their context become self-sufficient aesthetic objects. The office works across the scale of the building, the neighbourhood, the settlement and the region, designing urban systems and individual buildings together so that both carry civic value.

Projects include Villa 003 of the ORDOS 100 project, the Ashdod Museum of Art, the winning proposal for the National Library of Israel, and Bight: Coastal Urbanism, a multi-scale response to climate change within the 4th RPA Regional Plan for New York; Segal also designed the Palmach History Museum in Tel Aviv with Zvi Hecker. He studied at the Technion, holds a PhD from Princeton and directs the SMArchS Urbanism programme at MIT. The office is based in Boston.