Rand Lemley
Architect / Sustainability Lead
DREAM Collaborative
Rand Lemley AIA, CPHC joined DREAM Collaborative in 2018. As Project Architect / Sustainability Lead, he brings his focus on sustainability and building performance into the design process to enable innovative solutions to achieve equitable design excellence in all projects. Acknowledging our current climate crisis and housing crisis, Rand operates with an acute sense of the architect’s responsibility to push for the greater good.
Rand's work shows that architects do have agency to reject their complicity with capital and embrace the profession's social mission. Through professional work in high-performance affordable housing in Boston and academic work in energy-efficient detailing and decarceration design, Rand affirms design justice is environmental justice is social justice...and that they can be achieved by working collaboratively at all scales.
Rand is a registered architect in Massachusetts and a Certified Passive House Consultant. He received his Masters of Real Estate and Development and Bachelor of Architecture from the Boston Architectural College and his Associates of General Studies from Central Texas College. Rand has served as adjunct faculty at Boston Architectural College, and currently serves as co-chair of Decarbonizing Existing Buildings Alliance and as a member of the national admin committee of The Architecture Lobby.
Rand's work shows that architects do have agency to reject their complicity with capital and embrace the profession's social mission. Through professional work in high-performance affordable housing in Boston and academic work in energy-efficient detailing and decarceration design, Rand affirms design justice is environmental justice is social justice...and that they can be achieved by working collaboratively at all scales.
Rand is a registered architect in Massachusetts and a Certified Passive House Consultant. He received his Masters of Real Estate and Development and Bachelor of Architecture from the Boston Architectural College and his Associates of General Studies from Central Texas College. Rand has served as adjunct faculty at Boston Architectural College, and currently serves as co-chair of Decarbonizing Existing Buildings Alliance and as a member of the national admin committee of The Architecture Lobby.