Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company will collaborate with The Jekyll Island Company

E. Wade Shealy, managing member of The Jekyll Island Company, has announced that the renowned firm of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ), will be a collaborating partner in the company’s efforts to compete for the redevelopment project on Jekyll Island. 

Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, founded by Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk in 1980, is widely recognized as among the leaders of the New Urbanism, an international movement that seeks to end suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment.
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.  Additional projects that have received acclaim include Rosemary Beach and Alys Beach (Walton County FL), I’On (Mt. Pleasant, SC) and Habersham (Beaufort, SC).

A significant aspect of DPZ’s work is its innovative use of planning regulations which accom­pany each design. Tailored to the individual project, the codes address the manner in which buildings are formed and located to ensure that they create useful and distinctive public spaces. Local architectural traditions and building techniques are also codified within the regulations. In the last five years, DPZ has also been continually developing a new model zoning code called the SmartCode, a form-based system of zoning according to degrees of urbanism within a continuum from urban center to rural wilder­ness.

The firm’s principals were 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.” 

The firm has been featured in other national media such as CNN, CBS News, NBC News and ABC News, as well as Newsweek, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the New Yorker. 

 In 2001, Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk were awarded the Vincent Scully prize by the National Building Museum in recognition of their contributions to the American built environment.

DPZ has offices in Miami, FL, Washington DC, and Charlotte, NC