Philia
Magazine

Rafi Segal

Rafi Segal is an American-Israeli architect, urbanist, and educator whose work explores the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and research. Through Rafi Segal Architecture Urbanism, he leads projects across the United States, Europe, and Asia, ranging from cultural institutions to large-scale urban developments. His practice is distinguished by its engagement with the social, environmental, and collective dimensions of the built environment, including the design of an art and technology district in Pristina, Kosovo, recipient of the 2025 Holcim Foundation Grand Prize for Sustainable Design in Europe.

Segal is also Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he directs the MIT Future Urban Collectives Lab, researching how emerging models of sharing and collectivity shape architecture and cities. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, MoMA in New York, the Hong Kong/Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, and the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale.

“When both are dominant yet interdependent, this is when the opportunity for architecture is at its best.”

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3 July 26

Architects

Brook Quach – Workshop/APD

Brook Quach is a Design Director at Workshop/APD, where he approaches architecture with the precision and vision of a composer — orchestrating creative direction while ensuring cohesion across architecture and design. With a strong focus on both concept and execution, he leads projects through complex architectural and design challenges, maintaining a clear and functional vision from inception to completion.

With nearly two decades of professional experience — including 19 years at Workshop/APD — Quach has worked across a wide range of scales and typologies, from hotels and large-scale commercial developments to high-end private residences. Driven by an intuitive architectural approach and a sharp eye for proportion and harmony, he creates spaces that respond meaningfully to the people who occupy them.

27 February 26

Architects

Huw Wellard

Huw Wellard is the architect behind Wellard Architects, a Melbourne-based architecture and design studio. Known for creating lasting impressions through built form, the studio delivers thoughtful outcomes with a sensitive, measured approach that responds to both people and place.

Working across urban, coastal, and rural environments throughout Australia, the practice engages in a process of refinement and shared dialogue to design highly resolved spaces that evolve with life and context.

20 February 26

Architects

Tosin Oshinowo

Tosin Oshinowo is a Lagos-based Nigerian architect, designer, and curator, and the founder of Oshinowo Studio, established in 2013. Her practice is recognized for its socially responsive approach to architecture, design, and urbanism, with projects spanning civic, commercial, and residential sectors across Nigeria. Notable works include collaborations with the United Nations Development Programme to create a new community for a village displaced by Boko Haram, Maryland Mall in Lagos, and Adidas’ flagship store in West Africa.

Oshinowo’s work explores the intersection of culture, identity, and contemporary African design. Alongside her architectural practice, she is an active curator and researcher, having co-curated the 2019 Lagos Biennial and curated the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial. A registered architect and member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, she has worked internationally with firms including Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture before establishing her independent studio.

13 February 26

Architects

Wallflower Architecture + Design

Wallflower Architecture + Design is a Singapore-based boutique practice led by Robin Tan and Yong Mien Huei, known for its refined approach to high-end residential architecture rooted in tropical living. Established in 1999, the studio has built a strong reputation for crafting bespoke homes that respond sensitively to climate, site, and the lived rhythms of their clients.

Robin Tan, a graduate of the National University of Singapore, brings over two decades of experience and has received multiple Singapore Institute of Architects awards, alongside international recognition including wins at the Trends International Design Awards and the World Architecture Festival. Yong Mien Huei, also a graduate of the National University of Singapore and a registered architect, is known for her thoughtful design sensibility and has contributed to award-winning projects such as Touching Eden House, which received both SIA and World Architecture Festival honors. She has also served as a juror at the World Architecture Festival 2025.

Together, they lead Wallflower with a shared commitment to context-driven, sustainable design, continuously exploring new expressions of contemporary tropical architecture.

6 February 26

Architects

RA! Arquitectura

RA! Arquitectura is an architecture studio founded in 2017 in Mexico City by Cristóbal Ramírez de Aguilar, Pedro Ramírez de Aguilar, and Santiago Sierra. The practice focuses on planning and building spaces rooted in human experience, where architecture emerges from memory, the body, and lived conditions rather than from predetermined form.

RA!’s work is developed through careful readings of context, habit, emotion, and environment. Each project is conceived as a narrative that unfolds through sequences of space, prioritizing atmosphere, use, and emotional resonance alongside technical precision. Rather than pursuing a fixed formal language, the studio approaches each commission through inquiry, experimentation, and iteration, allowing projects to respond specifically to their place and users.

The studio’s work has received national and international recognition, including the CAM-SAM Grand Prize, Architectural MasterPrize, Félix Candela Award, A+ Architizer Awards, LOOP Design Awards, and the Simon Architecture Prize awarded by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation. RA!’s projects have been widely published in international media such as Domus, Divisare, Dezeen, Designboom, ArchDaily, and Arquine, reflecting an active presence across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

30 January 26

Architects

Erased Studio

Erased Studio is a multidisciplinary architectural practice founded by architects Elliott Housiaux and Paul-Emile De Smedt. Trained in architecture in Brussels, the studio operates across architecture, interior design, scenography, and spatial design, approaching every project through a structured and analytical architectural lens.

Rooted in research, context, and material experimentation, their work is defined by minimal, visually precise compositions shaped by light, atmosphere, and narrative clarity. Positioned at the intersection of architecture and scenography, Erased Studio explores how form, space, and sensory experience construct immersive environments.

23 January 26

Philia
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Rafi Segal

Brook Quach – Workshop/APD

Huw Wellard