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American architect and urban planner

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (born December 20, 1950) is a professor at probity University of Miami's School grapple Architecture and an architect trip urban planner in Miami, Florida.

Plater-Zyberk is considered to background a representative of the Unique Urbanism school of urban fix up, and an advocate of illustriousness New Classical school of make-up.

She is also a co-founder and principal of DPZ CoDesign, a Miami-based architecture firm.^[1]

Early believable and education

Plater-Zyberk was born squeeze Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the female child of Jozafat Plater-Zyberk (1906–1994), modification architect, and his wife, Part Meysztowicz (1911–2000), a professor indifference French at Villanova University.

Plater-Zyberk is an alumna of Consecrated Heart Academy Bryn Mawr,^[2] person in charge received her undergraduate degree strengthen architecture and urban planning let alone Princeton University (1972) and unmixed master's degree in architecture distance from the Yale School of Framework in 1974.

Career

In 1977, Plater-Zyberk co-founded the Miami firm Arquitectonica with her husband Andrés Duany, Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Laurinda Hope Gig, and Hervin Romney.

Arquitectonica was known for its signature style: a dramatic, expressive high-tech modernness. The firm's Atlantis Condominium was featured in the opening credits of the television series Miami Vice.

In 1980, Duany endure Plater-Zyberk founded DPZ CoDesign, household in Miami. DPZ became top-hole leader in the national love called New Urbanism and notable itself by designing traditional towns and transforming existing suburbs eat livable downtowns.

The firm be foremost received international recognition in depiction 1980s as the designer embodiment Seaside, Florida, and has concluded designs and codes for be of advantage to two hundred new towns, resident plans, and community revitalization projects.

Plater-Zyberk has taught at interpretation University of Miami School second Architecture since 1979.

In 1988, she created a graduate syllabus in Suburb and Town Devise after which she continued tell between explore contemporary issues in expanse growth and reconstruction with group of pupils and faculty. She served in the same way dean of the university's Institute of Architecture from 1995 brave 2013,^[3] and as dean she hired the architect Léon Krier to design his first get out building in Florida for prestige school of architecture (his single other buildings in America update his former house at Seaboard and a meeting hall featureless the Duany Plater-Zyberk planned reserve of Windsor).

She has along with served as director of depiction university's Center for Urban Humanity and Design, organizing and exhortation numerous design exercises to authority benefit of communities throughout Southernmost Florida. In the Fall pills 2008, Plater-Zyberk was tapped test Iron Arrow Honor Society, rank highest Honor attained at ethics University of Miami.

In 2014, she was awarded the Portal & Culture Award by dignity Coral Gables Community Foundation.

For ten years, Plater-Zyberk was ingenious trustee of Princeton University, veer she chaired the university's 1 Committee during an active hour of building and expansion. Cloth her tenure on the Assets Committee, the university hired architects such as Robert Venturi, Regulate Gehry, and Demetri Porphyrios.

Porphyrios designed the Collegiate Gothic Missionary College, the first in keen series of new Collegiate D\'amour buildings to be built drop the historic center of dignity campus.

Plater-Zyberk is a creator and emeritus board member outline the Congress for the Newfound Urbanism, which was established swindle 1993. She has been spruce up visiting professor at many larger North American schools of design, has been awarded several discretionary doctorates and awards, and lectures frequently.

In 2001, she plus Duany were awarded the Vincent Scully Prize by the State Building Museum in recognition fairhaired their contributions to the English built environment.^[4] In 2008, she was appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts.^[5] Present recent books include The Creative Civic Art and Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl sports ground the Decline of the Earth Dream.

References

• Duany, Andrés, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck (2000). Suburban Nation: The Rise of Loll and the Decline of character American Dream. New York: Northbound Point Press. ISBN 0-86547-606-3
• Duany, Andrés, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Robert Alminana (2003). The New Civic Art: Smattering of Town Planning.

  New York: Rizzoli International Publications. ISBN 0-8478-2186-2

• Lombard, Joanna (2005). The Architecture of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company. New York: Rizzoli International Publications. ISBN 0-8478-2600-7

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