Zachary Rapaport

Zachary Rapaport is a Master of Architecture student at MIT working across architecture, artistic practice, and environmental research. He is a co-lead of MIT Farm, a campus-community initiative prototyping growing infrastructure, food distribution systems, and public programming around soil, land stewardship, and urban agriculture as spatial and ecological practices. At MIT, he has also worked as a Research Assistant with the Department of Architecture, Urban Risk Lab, and MIT Office of Sustainability, supporting climate, resilience, and material circularity research through MIT ClimateCorps and the No Waste Initiative.

Zachary holds a Bachelor of Humanities & Arts from Carnegie Mellon University, where his background in art continues to shape his approach to spatial practice, research, and public engagement. He was an Artist in Residence at the Tides Institute & Museum of Art, and his professional experience includes work with SCAPE Landscape Architecture, MIT Urban Risk Lab, and Centro de Estudios Económicos Urbanos in Buenos Aires. Across these contexts, his work integrates artistic inquiry, collaborative design, and research to explore how spatial practices can support more just and imaginative environmental futures.

Projects
MIT Farm
MIT Farm is a growing initiative that connects students, faculty, staff, and the broader MIT community around food, farming, and shared growing spaces. We work directly with local peri-urban farms on food access programs, hands-on volunteering, design-build projects, and advocacy.
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MIT Farm Cart
The MIT Farm Cart is a mobile, adaptable prototype designed to anchor MIT Farm. Built from repurposed and reclaimed materials, the cart supports collective learning, research, and engagement, using mobility to activate everyday environments around food systems, land stewardship, and shared responsibility.
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Contact

zrap@mit.edu