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 DPZ’s reinvigoration of a simple vernacular architecture, including the Hibiscus House in Coconut Grove, Florida, and the Carambola Villas in St. Croix.
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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.
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.
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I was really looking forward to this book and spent a considerable chunk of change to get it and I feel, in many ways that it is a massively incomplete catalogue of this wonderful architectural firm's body of work. Not a single one of their major "new urbanism" projects was featured, even though two specific ones were mentioned in Rizzoli's book description. Thrown into the heap of primarily civic buildings and private dwellings, were a couple of their smaller scale works, one designed (as successful as it may have been) for migrant workers in Hillsborough (Tampa) county. This book is hardly a good or even descent retrospective of an architectural firm that, in many ways, revolutionized and challenged the concept of suburban America and the many ills associated with it. Joanna Lombard's text is first rate and the photographs are equally excellent, but this is hardly a definitive publication. Let's hope another publisher will pick up where Rizzoli left off and provide the public with a more complete and detailed account of DPZ's chronology and achievements. In retrospect, I should have done my research prior to purchasing. Disappointing.
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