Sarah Dunbar

Sarah is a principal and co-founder at Neighbor Architects in Cambridge, MA. She is a practicing architect, urban designer, and educator with over eighteen years of experience. Her work focuses on the intersection of the built environment and public space, typological innovation, and community engagement. She operates from the position that design can be a tool to connect people and a positive, transformative force in any context. She is currently working on several affordable and missing middle housing projects in Boston, civic and housing projects in Somerville and Cambridge, and recently led Neighbor’s award-winning work on the Zahrat Al Yasmeen Play Yard in Palestine, as well as leading the design for Boston’s ADU Guidebook. Her work at the urban scale looks at how adaptive reuse and strategic intervention can create a more equitable, beautiful, and provocative built environment.

Sarah has a BFA from Oberlin College and an MArch from MIT, where she was a recipient of the Alpha Rho Chi medal, Laya and Jerome Weisner Art Award, Department Merit scholarship and the Schlossman Research Award. Her work with Neighbor has received several awards and been published in The Architect’s Newspaper, Boston Globe and other publications.