DPZ CoDesign

Template:Short description Template:Template other DPZ CoDesign (DPZ) (formerly Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. and DPZ Partners) is an architecture and town planning firm based in Miami, Florida. It was founded in 1980 by the husband-and-wife team of Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberke firm, and is a New Urbanist planning firm within the United States.

Besides Duany and Plater-Zyberk, DPZ's partners are Galina Tachieva, Marina Khoury, Senen M. A. Antonio, and Matthew J. Lambert. The firm's main areas of practice include regional and downtown plans, new towns, urban infill, villages and resort villages, and transit-oriented development. DPZ also works on suburban retrofits, campuses, housing, and civic buildings.

The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida and has offices in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon.

Awards

DPZ has received several awards for its work, including two National AIA Awards, the Thomas Jefferson Award, the Vincent Scully Prize, and two Governor's Urban Design Awards for Excellence. The firm's Seaside, Florida project was the first authentic new town to be built in the United States in over fifty years. In 1989, Time, a news 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:

• Seaside, Florida
  Seaside, Florida
• Kentlands, Maryland
  Kentlands, Maryland
• Rosemary Beach, Florida
  Rosemary Beach, Florida

Disaster recovery planning

DPZ was one firm involved in the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in 2005. Working 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 level.

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 Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment (TPFBE), prepared a recovery plan for Port-au-Prince.

Publications

Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are the authors or co-authors of several books on urban planning and design. Their book Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, written with Jeff Speck, was published in 2000. They later co-authored New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning with Robert Alminana.

Other publications by or associated with Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company include The Smart Growth Manual by Duany and Speck, Light Imprint Handbook: Integrating Sustainability and Community Design by Thomas E. Low, Sprawl Repair Manual by Galina Tachieva, and Duany’s Garden Cities: Theory and Practice of Agrarian Urbanism.

Further reading

• Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, North Point Press, 2001 Template:ISBN or Template:ISBN
• Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Robert Alminana. New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2003. Template:ISBN
• Joanna Lombard. The Architecture of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2005 Template:ISBN
• Andrés Duany and Jeff Speck with Mike Lydon. The Smart Growth Manual, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2009. Template:ISBN or Template:ISBN
• Thomas E. Low. Light Imprint Handbook: Integrating Sustainability and Community Design, Civic by Design, 2010. Template:ISBN or Template:ISBN
• Galina Tachieva. Sprawl Repair Manual, Island Press, 2010. Template:ISBN or Template:ISBN
• Andrés Duany, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. Garden Cities: Theory & Practice of Agrarian Urbanism, The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, 2011. Template:ISBN or Template:ISBN