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Miami Main Office
1023 SW 25th Avenue
Miami, Florida 33135
Phone: (305) 644-1023
Fax: (305) 644-1021
AA000845
Directions to Miami Office
Washington Regional Office
320 Firehouse Lane
Gaithersburg, Maryland
20878
Phone: (301) 948-6223
Fax: (301) 670-9337
Directions to Washington DC Office
Charlotte Regional Office
Physical Address:
119 Huntley Place
Charlotte, North
Carolina 28207
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 9617
Charlotte, North Carolina
28299
Phone: (704) 948-8141
Fax: (704) 948-8144
Directions to Charlotte Office
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Celebrating
its 25th year in 2005, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ) is a major
leader in the practice and direction of urban planning, having designed
over 300 new and existing communities in the United States and overseas.
DPZ’s
projects have received numerous awards, including two National AIA Awards,
the Vincent Scully Prize, the Thomas Jefferson Medal and two
Governor’s Urban Design Awards for Excellence. The firm’s early
project of Seaside, Florida, was the first authentic new town to be built
successfully in the United States in over fifty years. In 1989, Time
Magazine selected Seaside as one of the 10 "Best of the Decade"
achievements in the field of design. The firm has been featured in other
national media such as NBC News and ABC News, as well as Newsweek, the New
York Times, the Washington Post, and the New Yorker.
The firm
is led by its Principals, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who are
co-founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), recognized by the New
York Times as "the most important collective architectural movement in
the United States in the past fifty years." The movement, currently
over 3,000 strong, marked a turning point from the segregated planning and
architecture of post-war America; instead, they advocated and promoted the
universal and time-tested principles of traditional planning and design
that created the best-loved and most-enduring places throughout the world.
The
firm’s method of integrating master plans with project-specific design
codes and regulations is currently being applied to sites ranging from 10
to 10,000 acres throughout the United States. Abroad, DPZ projects are
underway in Scotland, Spain, Canada, Germany, Belgium, Australia, the
Philippines, Mexico, India and Turkey. Urban redevelopment plans for
existing communities include: Baton Rouge, Louisiana; West Palm Beach,
Naples, Sarasota, and Fort Myers, Florida; and Providence, Rhode Island. In
addition, the firm is rewriting the entire City of Miami zoning code in the
groundbreaking Miami 21 project.
A
significant aspect of DPZ’s work is its innovative planning
regulations which accompany each design. Tailored to the individual
project, the codes address the manner in which buildings are formed and
located to ensure that they create useful and distinctive public spaces.
Local architectural traditions and building techniques are also codified
within the regulations. In the last five years, DPZ has also been
continually developing a new model, form-based zoning code called the
SmartCode, which has been adopted by municipalities across the country.
DPZ has
also taken a leading role in the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast after
hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Working with both with the Mississippi
Governor’s Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal, and the
Louisiana Recovery Authority, DPZ’s designers generated plans for
rebuilding at the regional, local and neighborhood scales, as well as
guidelines for individual homeowners looking to rebuild. Notably, DPZ
organized and led the Mississippi Renewal Forum, which generated plans for
all eleven municipalites along the Mississippi Coast, conducted the
Louisiana Speaks charrette series and participated in the Unified New
Orleans Plan as neighborhood planners.
Duany
and Plater-Zyberk’s recent book, Suburban Nation, written with Jeff
Speck, was hailed as "an essential text for our time," and
"a major literary event," in the national media. In 2004, Builder
Magazine recognized Duany as among the 50 most influential people in home
building, the ranks of which included economists, bankers and developers,
apart from architects, planners and builders. Duany was ranked after Alan
Greenspan, Franklin Rainee, George W. Bush and Jerry Howard, earning Duany
the distinction of being the top ranking individual from the private
sector. Duany sits on the board of the National Town Builders Association,
and Plater-Zyberk shepherds the Knight Program in Community Building, a
program that brings an interdisciplinary approach to the revitalization of
inner cities. These and other efforts have earned Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and
the firm at large international recognition and dozens of local and
national awards in recognition of their contributions to the American built
environment.
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