Sarah Rafson

Sarah Rafson

Special Faculty
Curator of Public Programs
Director of EX-CHANGE Exhibition and Publication
Sarah Rafson

Sarah Rafson is Special Faculty at Carnegie Mellon Architecture. She also serves as the Curator of Public Programs and Director of the EX-CHANGE Exhibition and Publication.

She received the school’s 2017-18 Ann Kalla Professorship in Architecture, which she used to develop the EX-CHANGE publication and exhibition showcasing student work, and to develop and curate the school’s 2018 NAAB exhibition. Sarah joined the faculty as an adjunct in the fall of 2018. 

Sarah is an architecture writer, editor and curator. She writes on a range of issues in architecture and design. She is the founder of Point Line Projects, an editorial and curatorial agency. Sarah has worked on books with Kenneth Frampton, Bernard Tschumi and Barry Bergdoll, and collaborated on exhibitions at MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Center for Architecture in New York and the Parsons School of Design. She previously served on the board of ArchiteXX, the New York-based advocacy group for women in architecture. 

Sarah is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Columbia University's Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (CCCP) program.