Spear Design Group is a full-range architectural firm that delivers designs that are uplifting, meaningful, and memorable.
The success of the firm is rooted in a common goal to achieve creative design solutions while providing outstanding professional service and client satisfaction. Great results are achieved through collaborative dialogue with clients, collaborators, builders, craftsmen, and artists.
Spear Design Group’s commitment to outstanding design and service is expressed across a broad range of projects that vary by scale and complexity. Since its establishment in 2006, the practice has focused on producing contextually based architecture that explores contemporary building usage and technology. Professional services include architectural design, interior design, and project feasibility studies, and they are always characterized by attention to detail and quality.
Led by Miriam Tropp Spear, AIA, the firm operates from its Boston office with 4 collaborators and continues to focus on institutional, non-profit, and retail projects. The Kollel of Greater Boston, a Center for Talmudic Studies, has been featured in Dwell Magazine.
Team
Miriam Tropp Spear, AIA Founder
Miriam is a registered architect with 20+ years of design-focused experience across a variety of scales and project types. Miriam’s experience is in the design of cultural and civic institutions. Projects include The Lawrenceville Academy School of Music in Princeton, the Brickell Bridge in Miami, the Kollel Center for Advanced Talmudic Study in Boston, and the repurposing of St. Teresa’s in Providence. She is concurrently the Principal of Spear Design Group, whose work continues to deliver designs that are uplifting, meaningful, and memorable.
Miriam received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami.
View Miriam’s CV here.
Katarina Richter-Lunn Designer
Katarina is an architectural designer and researcher pursuing her Doctorate of Design at Harvard GSD. Her primary research lies at the intersection of design, psychology, and neuroscience to address mental well-being through our environment. As part of this work, she explores perception through the lens of material development, computational design, affective computing, and robotics.
Katarina holds a Master's in Design Technology from Harvard GSD and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, with a minor in Sustainable Environments. She has worked at leading firms including Snøhetta, Arup, IwamottoScott, and most recently Gehry Partners, where she worked as a project designer for three years.
Services
Architecture
Interior Design