Synopses & Reviews
The Architecture of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company is a monograph on the highly successful urban design and architecture firm started by Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk in 1980 and is now known simply as DPZ. Credited with popularizing small towns and villages as welcome alternatives to the bleak monotony of the suburbs, DPZ champions vernacular architecture (traditional buildings with ties to local culture) in neighborhoods that share the same common features that made small-town living so livable. This book illustrates representative buildings, mainly houses, that make up some of these communities in such places as Seaside, Florida, Kentlands, Maryland, and Markham, Ontario. In addition, the book showcases individual buildings that demonstrate DPZs reinvigoration of a simple vernacular architecture, including the Hibiscus House in Coconut Grove, Florida, and the Carambola Villas in St. Croix.
About the Author
Joanna Lombard is an architect and professor of architecture at the University of Miami. She recently curated the exhibition “The Historic Landscapes of Florida.”
Beth Dunlop, former architecture critic of the Miami Herald Tribune, is the author of numerous books and articles, including Miami: Trends and Traditions and Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture.