Andrés Duany

Andrés Duany is a founding principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ), a firm widely recognized as a leader of the New Urbanism. Andrés has completed designs for nearly 300 new towns, regional plans, and community revitalization projects, and has delivered hundreds of lectures and seminars, addressing architects, planning groups, university students, and the general public. He is a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, which has been characterized by The New York Times as “the most important collective architectural movement in the United States in the past fifty years,” and is the author of The New Civic Art and Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. He earned a Master’s degree in architecture from the Yale School of Architecture, has been awarded several honorary doctorates and many awards for his scholarship in architecture and urban design.