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Design Collective is an award-winning multi-disciplinary design firm in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1979, the firm provides innovative solutions nationally and internationally in architecture, planning, landscape architecture, and interior architecture. For additional information, please visit www.designcollective.com.

We want a more beautiful world for more people. So many of us dedicate our lives to this pursuit. But if we’re all working toward better futures, why aren’t we there yet? Systems-level challenges are becoming more complex and critical by the day. We believe collaboration is the way forward, but our current structures and strategies hinder, rather than promote, shared consequences and prosperity. For a more beautiful world, we need a radically new architecture. An architecture that supports collaboration, rather than competition, in service of more beautiful futures. Future architecture applies a new, disciplined approach to the design of these futures. It zeroes in on intangible forms—trust, language and sentiment, among others—to provide pathways to more comprehensive and nuanced impact. By transcending a dominant culture that often ignores or dismisses the power of the intangible, future architecture creates the conditions necessary for humanity to thrive. The central pursuit of future architecture is Shared Futures—potential realities born from the bold vision and dedicated stewardship of collaborative stakeholders seeking long-view and transformational impact. We invite you to explore future architecture with us—a vocation anchored in hope, built on principle, fortified with ritual, learned by action, mastered through commitment and bound to deep collaboration.

Urban Design Partners is a group of energetic, productive and visionary land development design consultants dedicated to our clients and successful projects. The UDP team includes creative land planners, landscape architects, civil engineers, advisers, collaborators and development advocates. We are passionate placemakers, thinkers, strategists and believe every project should be memorable and unique. Our daily commitment to excellence, superior client service and project success guides everything we do.