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We’re very excited to welcome Andrés Duany to our 2009 panel of Digital Graffiti judges!

Andrés Duany, F.A.I.A., C.N.U.is a principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ), widely recognized as a founder and leader of New Urbanism, an international movement that seeks to end suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment.

Since designing the town of Seaside, Florida in 1980 (later described by Time magazine as “the most astounding design achievement of its era”), DPZ has completed designs for nearly 300 new towns and community revitalization projects around the globe.

Duany received his undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton University, and after a year of study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, he received a master’s degree in architecture from the Yale School of Architecture. Duany has also been awarded several honorary doctorates, the Brandeis Award for Architecture, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal of Architecture from the University of Virginia, the Vincent J. Scully Prize for exemplary practice and scholarship in architecture and urban design from the National Building Museum, the Seaside Prize for contributions to community planning and design from the Seaside Institute and the Richard H. Driehaus Prize.

Duany has delivered hundreds of lectures and seminars, addressing architects, planning groups, university students, and the general public. His recent publications include The New Civic Art and Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. He is a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, which has been characterized by The New York Times as “the most important collective architectural movement in the United States in the past fifty years.”

Andrés Duany practices architecture and town planning with his wife Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who is also the dean at the University of Miami School of Architecture.

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