Andrés Duany (born September 7, 1949) is an American

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, an

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, and a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism.

Early life and education

Duany was born in

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but grew up in

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until 1960. He attended The Choate School and Aiglon College and received his undergraduate degree in

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and

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from

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(1971). After a year of study at the

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, he received a master's degree from the

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(1974).

Career

In 1977, Duany co-founded the

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firm Arquitectonica with his wife, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Laurinda Spear, and Hervin Romney. Arquitectonica was known for its playful, Latin-American influenced

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. The firm's Atlantis Condominium was featured in the opening credits of the television series ''

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''. In 1980, Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk founded

Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company 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 is one ...

(DPZ), an architecture firm based in

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. DPZ participated in the formation of the international urban planning movement known as

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, intended to offer an alternative to

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and urban disinvestment. The firm first received recognition as the designer of new towns such as Seaside, Florida and Kentlands, Maryland. The firm has since completed designs and codes for over three hundred new towns, regional plans, and inner-city revitalization projects. Duany is also considered to be a representative of

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. Duany is a co-founder and emeritus board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), established in 1993. He has co-authored five books: ''Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream''; ''The New Civic Art''; ''The Smart Growth Manual''; ''Garden Cities''; ''and Landscape Urbanism and Its Discontents''. Duany has worked as visiting professor at many institutions and holds two honorary doctorates. He is a fellow of the

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and an adjunct professor at the

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Awards

Duany and his partner, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, have been awarded several honorary doctorates and awards including the Vincent Scully Prize by the

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in recognition of their contributions to the American built environment. Duany has been awarded the Brandeis Award for Architecture, the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture, the Arthur Ross Award in Community Planning, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, the

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International Award, and the Albert Simons Medal of Excellence, among other awards.

Books

* 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. * Duany, Andrés, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Robert Alminana (2003). ''The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning''. New York: Rizzoli International Publications. * Duany, Andrés and Jeff Speck, with Mike Lydon (2009). ''The Smart Growth Manual''. New York: McGraw-Hill. * Duany, Andrés and DPZ (2011). ''Garden Cities: Theory & Practice of Agrarian Urbanism'', The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment

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