DPZ CoDesign facts for kids
DPZ CoDesign (DPZ) (formerly Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. and DPZ Partners) is an architecture and town planning firm based in Miami, Florida, founded in 1980 by the husband-and-wife team of Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. The firm advocates for New Urbanist 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; suburban retrofits; campuses; housing; affordable housing; and civic buildings. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida, with offices in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon.
Awards
DPZ has received numerous awards for its projects, 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 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.
Representative projects
Planned communities designed by DPZ include:
- East Beach, Norfolk, Virginia
- Village of Providence, Huntsville, Alabama
- Alys Beach, Florida
- Prospect New Town, Longmont, Colorado
Disaster recovery planning
DPZ took 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 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.
