Jonathan Fitch

Jonathan is committed to designing places that are conceptually clear, carefully crafted, and well-loved by their users.

Although he resisted the idea in his youth, Jonathan seemed fated to become an architect; his father was an architect and his mother an interior designer. After a year of graduate study, however, he experienced an epiphany in Dan Kiley’s South Garden at the Art Institute of Chicago—he had never been moved by a building in that way—and decided to study landscape architecture instead. As founding principal of MKSK’s DC office, Jonathan is passionate about fostering a design practice where everyone has a voice and about making places that, at whatever scale, are conceptually clear and carefully crafted. He remains actively involved in projects of all scales and throughout all phases. Jonathan has also been active throughout his career in design education—both teaching studios and visiting as a critic.