The exhibition features six projects undertaken in the past years by the office of Rafi Segal Architecture Urbanism. Photos and images of the buildings and final designs are displayed aside hundreds of sketches undertaken throughout the design process of the projects.
The exhibition foregrounds the sketch as the medium through which concepts and forms are developed and offers the visitor an insight into the creative process entailed in the design of an architectural project. Displaying the various iterations of the designs and their final result at the same time revealing both the concepts rendered in certain sketches as they develop into architectural forms but further more similarities and shared expressions found across the various projects.
Segal’s architecture seeks clarity of concept and form, strongly rooted in the project’s site, in its physical and cultural setting. As such the architecture project relies on a close interpretation of its urban context and the opportunities that lie within it to engage the larger environment through the design of a single structure.
Rafi Segal is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at MIT. His design projects and written work have been published internationally, and in 2012 he won an architectural competition for the National Library of Israel. Prior to establishing his own firm, Segal worked for several years with Zvi Hecker, most notably on the Palmach History Museum in Tel Aviv. Segal has curated architectural exhibitions at Storefront for Art and Architecture, Kunst-Werk Institute for Contemporary Art, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Hong Kong/Shenzhen Urbanism Biennale, and other venues. He holds a BArch and MSc from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and a PhD from Princeton University, where he wrote his dissertation on the work of Alfred Neumann.