Nominee's Background:
Andres Duany has been a founding partner of two very influential architecture firms: Arquitectonica and Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. With the latter firm, he has co-designed the towns of Seaside and Kentlands, along with more than 140 other neighborhoods, towns, and cities. Duany has written a chapter of Architectural Graphic Standards and The Lexicon of the New Urbanism. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Miami, has worked as visiting professor at many other institutions, and teaches planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. DPZ has been the subject of over 800 articles and has received the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal of Architecture. Along with his B.Arch. from Princeton, his M.Arch from Yale, and his study at the École des Beaux Arts, Mr. Duany also holds two honorary doctorates.
(from http://www.cnu.org/aboutcnu/board_member_aduany.cfm)
Since its founding in 1980, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company has completed designs for over 250 new and existing communities. This work has exerted a major influence on the practice and direction of urban planning in the United States.
DPZs projects have received numerous awards, including two National AIA Awards and two Governors Urban Design Awards for Excellence. The firms 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.
A significant aspect of DPZ's work is its innovative use of planning regulations, including the Urban and Architectural Codes that 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.
(from http://www.dpz.com/company.htm)
Nominating Speech:
Nominated by: Keith Ammann
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Progressive Criteria:
The Department of Housing and Urban Development will:
Acknowledge that every citizen deserves adequate, safe, life-enhancing housing, and work to support this right;
Promote neighborhood preservation and renewal, rather than population removal and gentrification;
Promote ecological energy-saving construction;
Look at housing as part of a larger picture that involves the need for opportunities for well-remunerated, rewarding work near at hand, especially for low-income areas.
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