Since its founding in 1980, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company has completed designs for over 300 new and existing communities. This work has exerted a major influence on the practice and direction of urban planning in the United States.
DPZ's projects have received numerous awards, including two National AIA Awards and two Governor's Urban Design Awards for Excellence. The firm's early project of Seaside, Florida, was the first authentic new town to be built successfully in the United States in over fifty years. In 1989, Time Magazine selected Seaside as one of the 10 "Best of the Decade" achievements in the field of design. The firm has been featured in other national media such as NBC News and ABC News, as well as Newsweek, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the New Yorker.
The firm's method of integrating master plans with project-specific design codes and regulations is currently being applied to sites ranging from 10 to 10,000 acres throughout the United States. Abroad, DPZ projects are underway in Canada, Germany, Belgium, Australia, the Philippines, Mexico, and Turkey. Urban redevelopment plans for existing communities include: Baton Rouge, Louisiana; West Palm Beach, Naples, Stewart, Sarasota, and Fort Myers, Florida; and Providence, Rhode Island.
In addition to its design work, the firm is widely recognized as a leader of the international movement against the proliferation of suburban sprawl. The firm's principals, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, are co-founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, recognized by the New York Times as "the most important collective architectural movement in the United States in the past fifty years." Their recent book, Suburban Nation, written with DPZ Director Jeff Speck, was hailed as "an essential text for out time," and "a major literary event," in the national media. In 2001, Duany and Plater-Zyberk were awarded the Vincent Scully prize by the National Building Museum in recognition of their contributions to the American built environment.
Duany and Plater-Zyberk's Suburban Nation, written with DPZ Director Jeff Speck, was hailed as "the bible of urbanists" by the Wall Street Journal and described by the Weekly Standard as "the most coherent and important attack on American sprawl to appear so far." Other recent or forthcoming books include the New Civic Art, the Lexicon of the New Urbanism, and The Smart Growth Manual. In addition, Andres Duany has completed a new universal land use ordinance called the SmartCode, which is being disbributed nationwide by the Municipal Code Corporation as an alternative to conventional (sprawl-oriented) ordinances.
Lew Oliver, Inc. is an awarding-winning Atlanta-based design firm that offers a range of services, including custom-home design, urban planning, town codes, and comprehensive solutions for builders and developers, including an extensive pattern book and subscription plan. His work can be found in New Urbanist towns and communities across the U.S., including Rosemary Beach, Vickery, Clark's Grove, Lost Rabbit, and I'on. Among his numerous national and international awards are Designer of the New American Home for the National Association of Homebuilders and Designer of the Southern Accents Show House. Most recently, his work was awarded three Best in American Living (BALA) Awards, and nine Obie Awards. His design for the Grand Bohemian won Westin's Best in Brand worldwide for five consecutive years, while the Mansion, another of his designs, is a five-diamond hotel. For the past several years, his work has swept the gold and silver awards at the Professionalism Awards of the Atlanta Homebuilders Association.
New projects include Big Canoe in Georgia and Hartness Preserve and Wofford College in South Carolina, while his current international projects include towns in Tornagrain, Scotland; Batan, Ecuador; Isla Pedro Gonzalez, Panama; and Arcos de la Frontera, Spain.
A profound fascination with and love of towns and cities is what drives architects, designers, engineers, builders, developers, and visionaries to create. Special places, whether real or imagined, never fail to evoke the highest ideals of home, beauty, security, creativity, and a sense of belonging while weaving in the wholesomeness and mystery of nature. Great cities unite art, nature, architecture, and culture into a single distinctive living entity, blessing those lucky enough to inhabit then and inspiring others to try to recreate them wherever possible.
Our goal is to reinvigorate the city, a place of great richness. We desire to care for nature, and to become a part of it. We desire to reignite the art of town and city building, which for seventy-five years has been lost to false notions of suburban utopia. Whole Town Solutions is meant as a step in this direction, toward the reinvigoration of beautiful and meaningful places-in short, the renewal of urban America.
Missouri-based Panera Bread Co. will open in The Village at Hendrix next summer, becoming the first commercial tenant of our New Urbanist community. Panera operates full-service bakery-cafes that serve fresh meals throughout the day.
Southwestern Energy Company will begin construction of their $25 million, 100,000-square-foot regional headquarters this fall and serve as the anchor on the north side of The Village.
We are reclaiming and revitalizing the creek that winds through The Village property, so you can enjoy trails, outdoor classrooms and more.
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