Rafi Segal?established his own architectural practice in 2000 after working in partnership with Zvi Hecker on the design of the Palmach Museum in Tel Aviv. His theoretical and practical work gained him the Young Artist Award and, later, the Young Architect Prize from the Israeli Association of United Architects. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Architecture at Princeton University.
Els Verbakel is a partner at Derman Verbakel Architects and she is currently pursuing a PhD in Architecture at Princeton University, while also teaching at Columbia University.