• Apr 27, 2012 from 10:00 to 15:00
  • Location: The Colony
  • Latest Activity: Sep 23, 2020

On the Friday, April 27th Architect and Planner Andrés Duany will give the Preservation Foundation’s Gruss Master Architect Lecture at The Colony Hotel.

 

The event will be will be held at 2PM.

 

It is free to members, students, and Town of Palm Beach government employees and $20 for non-members.

 

Seating is limited so to make reservations please call 561.832.0731.

Andrés Duany is an architect whose work focuses on town and regional planning. He and his wife, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, founded their practice in 1980, at the time of their design of the town of Seaside, Florida, which began an ongoing debate on the alternatives to suburban sprawl. They have co-authored three books, Suburban Nation, The New Civic Art, and The Smart Growth Manual.

 

Since then, DPZ, their planning practice, has over 200 plans in the process of implementation. DPZ has particular expertise in writing codes. The firm is dedicated to both practice and research.

 

Duany was a founding member of the Congress for the New Urbanism. He teaches at the University of Miami and has four honorary doctorate. He has received the Driehaus Prize, the Scully Prize, the Jefferson Medal, and the Brandeis Medal. He is an honorary member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

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