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Andrés Duany (born September 7 1949) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 and urban planner
Urban planner

An urban planner is a professional who works in the field of urban planning for the purpose of maximizing the effectiveness of a community's land use and infrastructure....
.

Duany was born in New York City
New York City

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 but grew up in Cuba
Cuba

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 until 1960. He received his undergraduate degree in architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 and urban planning
Urban planning

Urban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning, to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities....
 from Princeton University
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
, and after a year of study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris
Paris

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, he received a master's degree in architecture from the Yale
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
 School of Architecture.

In 1977, Duany was co-founder of the Miami firm Arquitectonica
Arquitectonica

File:Icon Brickell South Tower.jpgArquitectonica is an avant-garde architecture, interior design and urban planning corporation headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States with international offices in 9 other cities....
, with his wife, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is an United States architect and urban planner based in Miami, Florida. A member of the first class of women to graduate from Princeton University, she received her undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton and her master's degree in architecture from the Yale School of Architecture....
, Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Laurinda Hope Spear, and Hervin Romney.






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Andrés Duany (born September 7 1949) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 and urban planner
Urban planner

An urban planner is a professional who works in the field of urban planning for the purpose of maximizing the effectiveness of a community's land use and infrastructure....
.

Duany was born in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 but grew up in Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
 until 1960. He received his undergraduate degree in architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 and urban planning
Urban planning

Urban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning, to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities....
 from Princeton University
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
, and after a year of study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, he received a master's degree in architecture from the Yale
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
 School of Architecture.

In 1977, Duany was co-founder of the Miami firm Arquitectonica
Arquitectonica

File:Icon Brickell South Tower.jpgArquitectonica is an avant-garde architecture, interior design and urban planning corporation headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States with international offices in 9 other cities....
, with his wife, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is an United States architect and urban planner based in Miami, Florida. A member of the first class of women to graduate from Princeton University, she received her undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton and her master's degree in architecture from the Yale School of Architecture....
, Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Laurinda Hope Spear, and Hervin Romney. Arquitectonica became famous for its signature style, a dramatic, expressive 'high tech' modernism
Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
. The firm's Atlantis Condominium
Atlantis Condominium

The Atlantis Condominium is a landmark 20-story luxury condominium in Miami, Florida. It was built between 1980-1982 and was designed by the architectural firm Arquitectonica....
 was featured prominently in the opening credits of "Miami Vice
Miami Vice

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."

Duany and Plater-Zyberk founded Duany Plater Zyberk & Company
Duany Plater Zyberk & Company

Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company is an architecture and town planning firm founded in 1980 by the husband-and-wife team of Andr?s Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk....
 (DPZ
DPZ

DPZ is a three-letter acronym which may refer either to:* Dominos Pizza, based on its Stock Ticker, DPZ.* discontinuous permafrost zone - a term from soil science....
) in 1980, headquartered in Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida

Miami is a global city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, the most populous county in Florida....
. DPZ became a leader in the national movement called the New Urbanism
New urbanism

New Urbanism is an urban design movement that arose in the United States in the early 1980s. Its goal is to reform many aspects of real estate development and urban planning, from urban retrofits to suburban infill....
, which seeks to end suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment
Disinvestment

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. The firm first received international recognition in the 1980s as the designer of Seaside, Florida
Seaside, Florida

Seaside is an unincorporated master-planned community on the Florida panhandle in Walton County, Florida, roughly midway between Fort Walton Beach, Florida and Panama City, Florida....
 and Kentlands, Maryland, and has completed designs and codes for over two hundred new towns, regional plans, and community revitalization projects. At DPZ, Duany also led the development of comprehensive municipal zoning
Zoning

Zoning is a device of land use regulation used by local governments in most developed countries . The word is derived from the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another....
 ordinances that prescribe appropriate urban arrangement for all uses and all densities.

Duany is a co-founder and emeritus board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, established in 1993. He has co-authored two books: "Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream" and "The New Civic Art." Duany has worked as visiting professor at many institutions and holds two honorary doctorates.

He also helped design Cornell, a community in Ontario, Canada

Further reading

  • Duany, Andrés, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck (2000). Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. New York: North Point Press. ISBN 0865476063
  • Duany, Andrés, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Robert Alminana (2003). The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning. New York: Rizzoli International Publications. ISBN 0847821862
  • Lombard, Joanna (2005). The Architecture of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company. New York: Rizzoli International Publications. ISBN 0847826007


External links

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  • January 2008 lecture for SFU's City Program in streaming video