Dr Daniel Dream is a London-based architectural designer, educator and researcher whose work explores the intersections of narrative, material culture and spatial design. With a PhD by Architectural Design from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, Daniel’s research reimagines the role of the architect through various lenses. His doctoral thesis, The Sculptor-Architect: Drawings, Models and Bozzetti after Michelangelo, proposed an alternative design methodology that privileges bodily intuition, figuration and tactile processes of making.

Daniel is co-director of Night Kitchen, a design research studio based in Catford and Athens, which operates at the intersection of architecture, collecting and storytelling. The studio’s work is characterised by its use of metafictional picturebooks, cinematic props and digital scanning technologies to create architectural narratives. Their home-studio-archive functions as both a domestic space and a narrative engine—where objects from film history are recontextualised into new spatial fictions. This hybrid practice has been widely published, including in Architectural Design, Design Ecologies and Visual Arts Research, and is featured in upcoming volumes such as The Culture of Collecting and Makings: The Journal of Creative Research.

As an educator, Daniel has taught at numerous institutions including The Bartlett, University of Greenwich, University of Westminster, UAL and University of Hong Kong. His current teaching foregrounds publishing as a design practice and encourages students to draw from personal histories and everyday objects to develop spatial narratives. His pedagogical approach, developed in collaboration with Dr Ifigeneia Liangi, positions the picturebook as a participatory and inclusive architectural medium.

Daniel’s work has been exhibited internationally and is informed by a deep engagement with material processes—from polychromatic ceramics to virtual reality modelling. His design research challenges conventional architectural representation by embracing affect and the imaginative reuse of media.