Roberto Segre was born in Italy in 1934, lived in Argentina until the age of 23, and lived in Cuba for 30 other years. In 1994, he came to Brazil as Professor of PROURB/UFRJ (Postgraduate Studies in Urbanism/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). He is Doctor of Regional and Urban Planning by IPPUR/UFRJ (Institute for Urban and Regional Planning and Research/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Brazil, and Doctor of Arts and Sciences by the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Havana, Cuba.

Segre has received several awards, including: the “Joaquín E. Weiss” Architecture Criticism Award for the set of books written on Cuban architecture, Havana, Cuba (1988); Gold Medal for the book Arquitectura y Urbanismo de los Siglos XIX y XX.