David Dixon

London

David Dixon FAIA leads Stantec’s new Urban Group. His work has won awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Congress for the New Urbanism, American Planning Association (APA) and other national organizations. In 2007 the AIA honored David with its Thomas Jefferson Medal for Public Architecture for “a lifetime of … significant achievement in [creating]… livable neighborhoods, civic spaces, and downtowns…” In 2012 Residential Architecture Magazine named David to their Hall of Fame, noting “he’s the person we call to ask about cities.”
David writes and speaks about issues like density, diversity facing rapidly changing cities and suburbs. The second edition of Urban Design for an Urban Century: Shaping More Livable, Equitable, and Resilient Cities, coauthored with Lance J. Brown FAIA, will be published by Wiley in Spring, 2014.
Before joining Stantec, David founded and led Goody Clancy’s planning and urban design practice, which won the APA’s 2013 Excellence in Planning Award to a Firm.