Rafi Segal is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at MIT. His practice encompasses design and research on both the architectural and urban scale. Segal’s projects include Villa 003 of the ORDOS 100 Project, the Kitgum Peace Museum in Uganda, the Ashdod Museum of Art, and the winning proposal for the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. His architectural work explores the relation of building to ground and contemporary notions of collective space. Segal’s books—such as Cities of Dispersal, co-ed (Wiley, 2008); and A Civilian Occupation, co-ed (Verso, 2003)—as well as his contributions to other publications and exhibitions like Territories: Islands, Camps and Other States of Utopia (Walther König, 2003) have been extremely influential in the social-political discourse of contemporary urbanism. Segal received his PhD from Princeton University, and his MSc and BArch from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.