DPZ CoDesign (DPZ) (formerly Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. and DPZ Partners) is an architecture and town planning firm based in

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, founded in 1980 by the husband-and-wife team of

Andrés Duany Andrés Duany (born September 7, 1949) is an American architect, an urban planner, and a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Early life and education Duany was born in New York City but grew up in Cuba until 1960. He attended The Ch ...

and

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (born December 20, 1950) is a professor at the University of Miami's School of Architecture and an architect and urban planner in Miami, Florida. Plater-Zyberk is considered to be a representative of the New Urbanism scho ...

. The firm is one of the preeminent advocates of

New Urbanist New Urbanism is an urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s, and has gradually inf ...

town planning in the United States and other countries, having completed designs for over 300 new and existing communities. In addition to Duany and Plater-Zyberk, DPZ's partners include Galina Tachieva, Marina Khoury, Senen M. A. Antonio and Matthew J. Lambert.

Areas of practice

DPZ's area of practice includes: regional and downtown plans; new towns; urban infill; villages and resort villages;

transit-oriented development In urban planning, transit-oriented development (TOD) is a type of urban development that maximizes the amount of residential, business and leisure space within walking distance of public transport. It promotes a symbiotic relationship between ...

; suburban retrofits; campuses; housing; affordable housing; and civic buildings. The firm is headquartered in

, with offices in

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, and

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Awards

DPZ has received numerous awards for its projects, including two National AIA Awards; the Thomas Jefferson Award; the

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; and two Governor's Urban Design Awards for Excellence. The firm's early project of

Seaside, Florida Seaside is an unincorporated master-planned community on the Florida Panhandle in Walton County, between Panama City Beach and Destin. One of the first communities in America designed on the principles of New Urbanism, the town has become th ...

, was the first authentic new town to be built successfully in the United States in over fifty years. In 1989, ''

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'' magazine selected Seaside as one of the 10 "Best of the Decade" achievements in the field of design.

Representative projects

Planned communities designed by DPZ include: File:Seaside,_Florida.jpg,

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* East Beach, Norfolk, Virginia *Village of Providence,

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Alys Beach, Florida Alys Beach is an unincorporated planned community in Walton County, Florida, United States directly off of CR 30A, on the Gulf Coast. Alys Beach plan was designed by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. The village is approximately . It was named ...

* Prospect New Town, Longmont, Colorado

Disaster recovery planning

DPZ has taken a leading role in the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Working with the Mississippi Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal, and the Louisiana Recovery Authority, DPZ's designers have generated plans for rebuilding at the regional, local and neighborhood level. They have also developed guidelines for individual homeowners looking to rebuild. Notably, DPZ organized and led the Mississippi Renewal Forum, which generated plans for eleven municipalities along the Mississippi Coast; prepared a series of typological plans for recovery and redevelopment of the Southern Louisiana coast under the Louisiana Speaks effort; and participated in the Unified New Orleans Plan as the neighborhood planner for the French Quarter, the Central Business District and Gentilly. Following the earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, DPZ, working under the banner of The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment (TPFBE), prepared a recovery plan for Port-au-Prince.

Publications

Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk's book ''Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream'', written with Jeff Speck and published in 2000, was hailed in the national media as "an essential text for our time", and "a major literary event". Their book ''New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning'', written with Robert Alminana, was published to wide acclaim. More recent publications by or about DPZ include Duany and Speck's ''The Smart Growth Manual''; Thomas E. Low's ''Light Imprint Handbook: Integrating Sustainability and Community Design''; Galina Tachieva's ''Sprawl Repair Manual''; and Duany's ''Garden Cities: Theory & Practice of Agrarian Urbanism''.

References

External links

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