Duany Plater Zyberk & Company
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Duany Plater Zyberk & Company (DPZ) is an architecture and town planning firm founded in 1980 by the husband-and-wife team of Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. It is one of the dominant firms specializing in new urbanist town planning in the United States and other countries, having completed designs for over 250 new and existing communities. A significant aspect of DPZ's work is the urban and architectural codes that accompany each design.
Areas of practice include 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, and has offices in Gaithersburg, Maryland and Charlotte, North Carolina.
In 2005, a group of DPZ directors and project managers opened the company's first affiliate office, called DPZ Pacific. The new firm is an independent operation and focuses exclusivly on work in Asia, India, The Middle East, Southeast Asia and Oceania.
Further reading
- Lombard, Joanna (2005). The Architecture of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company. New York: Rizzoli International Publications. ISBN 0847826007
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