The exhibition Architecture Dialogues presents recent work by Rafi Segal, MIT professor of architecture and urbanism, through sketches, drawings, models, photographs, and video projections. It explores new forms of domesticity and collective space, as well as relationships between architecture and the city, object and landscape, mass and space, and user and architect.
The exhibition inaugurates the new Cabinet of Architecture gallery in Prague 2–Vyšehrad, Czech Republic, and runs through February 10, 2027.
The exhibition presents buildings and designs for emerging forms of domesticity that challenge conventional notions of private and collective space. Dialogues refers to a design approach informed by considerations of building and city, object and landscape, mass and void, and user and designer. These dynamic conversations guide the creative process and shape the architectural outcome.
Among the projects on display is Carehaus, which reimagines conventional architectural approaches to care by introducing a co-housing model for families, caregivers, and older and disabled adults. In this model, caregivers and older adults have independent units organized around shared spaces that enable communal activities and create new kinds of spaces for care.
The exhibition also features Korthi Houses, a cluster of homes on the island of Andros, Greece, conceived as gathering places for families and friends living across different geographies. The houses are embedded within a traditional terraced landscape that guides their layout and arrangement. While the ground floors are integrated into the topography, the upper levels emerge as suspended white cubic volumes, reinterpreting the vernacular architecture of the Cycladic Islands.
At MIT, Segal directs Future Urban Collectives, a design-research group exploring how physical and digital strategies in architecture and urbanism can support cohabitation, coproduction, and coexistence. His work and teaching focus on how mutualism and collectivity can shape the design of buildings and cities across different scales.
The exhibition opened October 8 as part of Designblok, the 28th Prague International Design Festival.
