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The Architecture of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company

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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.