Catalyst Design PLLC

Moving People &Things

Catalyst Design is a woman-owned firm with offices in Raleigh, North Carolina. We provide a range of urban design and architecture services. Our firm is committed to helping organizations move through change to create better places for people.

Community Engagement

Civic Infrastructure

User Experience

Urban Design

Infrastructure Design

Owner Representation

Transit Policy

User Centered Solutions

Public Realm Policy

Experience Design

Transit Architecture

Grant Writing & Administration

Strategic Advising

Stakeholder Engagement

Moving People & Things


Roberta MK Fox, AIA, ASLA is the founder, owner, and lead designer of Catalyst Design PLLC. She has over 20 years experience practicing architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design for both private and public-sector projects with a special focus on strategic planning, project delivery, transportation architecture, and the people-centered spaces around them.

Roberta has left her mark on the transportation and social infrastructure of communities in Seattle, WA, Vancouver, BC, Washington DC, and most recently in Raleigh, NC where she served as the Assistant Director of City Planning and Principal Urban Designer at the Raleigh Urban Design Center. In this role, she influenced public space policy and design through a series of signature projects, including urban plazas, private use of public space regulation, community-focused/community-developed plans, and most notably Raleigh Union Station, a district-wide multimodal project she followed from inception through implementation.

Strategic Advising

Business Development | Real Estate Investment | Site Suitability

Experience Design

Master Planning | Urban Design | Policy Design

Program Management

Owner's Representative | Project Management | Organizational Development

Implementation Planning

Stakeholder Management | Capital Project Planning | Resource Deployment

Professional Services

Roberta MK Fox

Roberta MK Fox

AIA, ASLA

Principal & Urban Design Lead

Meet the Team

Eric J Lamb

Eric J. Lamb

PE, FITE

Transportation Lead

Sami Allen

Sami Allen

ASLA

Urban Designer

Christina Slotkowski

Ina Slotkovski

AIA

Visualization Specialist