Rafi Segal
*1967 – Tel Aviv, Israel
Biography
Rafi Segal is an Israeli architect, urban planner, and scientist Rafi, who studied architecture at the Technion in Israel, where he earned a M. Sc. engineering degree. He completed his doctoral studies at Princeton University. From 1992 to 2000, he worked with Zvi Hecker on the Palmach Museum project in Tel Aviv. Later, he founded his own office, which, after a recent reorganization, won an international competition for the design of the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. The work of the office, currently based in the USA, includes projects and research in the field of architecture and urban solutions. His texts and exhibitions, including Cities of Dispersal (2008), Territories: Islands, Camps and Other States of Utopia (2003), and A Civilian Occupation (2003) have had a tremendous impact on socio-political discussions about contemporary urbanism. Segal has taught architecture and urbanism at MIT, Harvard University, the Cooper Union in New York, and is currently teaching at GSAPP at Columbia University.
Rafi Segal is an Israeli architect, urban planner, and scientist Rafi, who studied architecture at the Technion in Israel, where he earned a M. Sc. engineering degree. He completed his doctoral studies at Princeton University. From 1992 to 2000, he worked with Zvi Hecker on the Palmach Museum project in Tel Aviv. Later, he founded his own office, which, after a recent reorganization, won an international competition for the design of the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. The work of the office, currently based in the USA, includes projects and research in the field of architecture and urban solutions. His texts and exhibitions, including Cities of Dispersal (2008), Territories: Islands, Camps and Other States of Utopia (2003), and A Civilian Occupation (2003) have had a tremendous impact on socio-political discussions about contemporary urbanism. Segal has taught architecture and urbanism at MIT, Harvard University, the Cooper Union in New York, and is currently teaching at GSAPP at Columbia University.
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