The Firm
Innovating at the crossroads of comprehensive planning, advanced design and construction, and financial viability to build stronger communities.
DREAM Collaborative is a Boston-based MBE architecture, planning and development firm. Since our founding in 2008, DREAM has been recognized for our innovative and thoughtful architectural design, our expert and transformative planning, and for our equitable development work. DREAM is a leader in collaborative and community-focused projects—sensitively responding to neighborhood priorities, championing environmental stewardship and the use of advanced design and construction methods.
Our team is made up of passionate problem-solvers who work closely with mission-aligned clients to fully embrace their goals and challenges to ensure beautiful and responsive solutions and outcomes. As a proud minority-owned firm, DREAM brings deeply diverse backgrounds and perspectives to every project, actualizing welcoming and inclusive places.
DREAM Collaborative is creating beautiful, authentic places and enabling better outcomes for all stakeholders through inclusive design practices. We provide development and full-service architectural design from concept through construction administration, as well as urban design and planning and preservation services.
Our differentiators inspire confidence and treat our clients as partners through uncompromising excellence, experience and integrity.
We knew from day one that DREAM would be a different kind of firm.Â
Troy Depeiza
Principal
DREAM is creating diverse, inclusive, and equitable futures starting with addressing climate change. As a proud signatory of the AIA 2030 Commitment, our work strives to meet the highest level of sustainability and resilience possible, from Net Zero to Passive House, LEED and beyond. Our architectural process starts and is driven by our in-house team, including LEED- and Passive House-certified staff.
Our development and planning work views each project through a broad lens, always considering the overlapping spheres of public policy, private development, and community-building. DREAM’s work encompasses all scales, from individual parcels and sites to entire neighborhoods and cities. Across all, our team seeks to empower neighborhoods, improve mobility choices, reduce resource consumption, and foster livable communities.