Dr Daniel Dream is an 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’s teaching practice engages with questions of civic imagination and local storytelling, with recent student-led projects focused on regeneration in Catford. These initiatives explore how architecture can respond to community histories, ecological futures and the emotional resonance of place. Recent student work has received recognition for advancing spatial equity and inclusivity in urban planning. Daniel encourages students to reframe urban transformation through personal and collective memory, as part of an approach that reflects a broader commitment to inclusive, sustainable and culturally attuned design practices. By foregrounding themes such as community-led transformation, sustainable urbanism and the imaginative reuse of existing resources, this contributes to a broader cultural shift toward inclusive and climate-conscious design.

Daniel is co-director of Night Kitchen, a design research studio based in Catford and Athens, which operates at the intersection of architecture, archiving 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.

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.