K. Dixon Architecture
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KDA

View project ↗ProjectPublic + Institutional PortfolioSectorEducation + CivicLocationMid-Atlantic
K. Dixon Architecture — an architecture, planning and project leadership practice serving public and private clients across the Mid-Atlantic.

Founded in 2003, KDA works across education, healthcare, government, commercial and institutional environments. The practice brings design thinking together with project management, technical coordination and a clear understanding of how complex organizations build.

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KDA is a women-owned, minority-owned firm built around collaboration, practical intelligence and high design at every budget. The team works with clients, consultants, builders and public stakeholders from early planning through delivery.

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Designing, planning and representing the places communities depend on.

Qualifications

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Women-Owned Small BusinessFederalWOSB
Women's Business EnterpriseWBENCWBE
Minority Business EnterpriseMaryland MDOTMBE
Small Business ReserveState of MarylandSBR
County-Based Business CertificationPrince George's CountyCBBC
Minority/Female/DisabledMontgomery CountyMFD
Small, Women-owned & Minority-ownedCommonwealth of VirginiaSWaM
Small / Small Diverse BusinessPennsylvaniaSDB
Minority Business EnterpriseGeorgia GDOTMBE
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Services

KDA's practice spans design, planning, project leadership and technical services, allowing the team to meet clients where a project actually needs support.

Detailed interior architecture
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Architecture + Interiors
Architecture rooted in function, performance and context, with interior environments developed as part of the whole project.
  • Architecture + interior design
  • Renovation + restoration
  • Design-build support
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Planning + Urban Design
Early planning services that align site, program, stakeholders and long-term institutional needs.
  • Master planning
  • Planning + urban design
  • Feasibility studies
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Project Management + Owner Representation
Project-side leadership for organizations navigating complex capital work, coordination and delivery.
  • Project management
  • Owner representation
  • On-site services
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Technical + Advisory
Technical services that support quality, compliance and value across the life of a project.
  • Third-party review
  • Value engineering
  • Sustainable consulting
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Strategy + Visual Communication
Strategic and visual tools to make complex decisions easier to understand, communicate and move forward.
  • Strategic planning
  • Visual communications
  • Stakeholder coordination

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Partners

KDA's public and institutional work is strengthened by long-standing relationships with major architecture, engineering, owner and government organizations.

GENSLER
HOK
SMITHGROUP
WSP
MORGAN STATE
WMATA
STATE OF MARYLAND
GSA / DC

For institutions, the best architecture partner is not always the firm drawing every line. Sometimes it is the team protecting the owner's brief, coordinating the players and keeping a major capital project moving.

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Owner representation · Greenbelt, MD

Springhill Lake Elementary

K. Dixon Architecture and Arcadis are serving as the owner's representative on the approximately $82 million replacement school, part of Prince George's County Public Schools' Blueprint Schools Phase II program.

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Leadership shaped by practice, teaching, mentorship and decades of public-sector experience.
Kathy Dixon, founder and principal of K. Dixon Architecture
Kathy Dixon
FAIA · NOMAC · NCARB · CDT · LEED AP

Founder and Principal. Licensed in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Georgia and New Jersey.

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