Traditional Architecture & Urbanism, with Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk of DPZ CoDesign

Architect and urban planner Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk presents an overview of New Urbanism and discusses its adaptation to contemporary concerns of sustainability and resilience.

In November 2023, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art hosted the national conference Enduring Places. For three days, 225 participants from around the country gathered in Charleston, South Carolina and engaged in a diverse offering of talks, panel discussions, working sessions, and tours focused on three themes: craftsmanship, preservation, and sustainability.

The ICAA’s mission of recovering a building design language and its craft has been reinforced by the parallel focus on traditional urban design of the New Urbanism. New Urban communities have provided a welcoming context for traditional architecture, extending its influence beyond the individual building to the creation of a sense of place. This presentation will illustrate this mutual reinforcement, and its adaptation to contemporary concerns of sustainability and resilience.

About the Series:

From April to June 2024, the ICAA will be releasing all of the recordings from Enduring Places. Sign up for the ICAA's biweekly newsletter, World of Classicism, to be notified when other installments are released in the coming weeks: https://bit.ly/ICAAemails

About the Speaker:

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is a founding principal of DPZ CoDesign, and the Malcolm Matheson Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University of Miami where she directs the Master in Urban Design Program, after 18 years as dean of the School of Architecture. Plater-Zyberk is a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, an organization established in 1993 to promote walkable, resilient urban design. She is co-author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream and The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning. At DPZ, Plater-Zyberk has led and managed projects ranging from individual building design to new community design, community rebuilding, regional plans and zoning codes- -including Miami 21, the ground-breaking form-based code for the City of Miami, approved in 2010 and currently in use. Her work with partner Andrés Duany has been widely recognized by awards such as the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture and the APA National Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice for Miami 21. With degrees from Princeton University and the Yale School of Architecture, Plater-Zyberk lectures frequently and has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the United States.

SPONSORS

The ICAA is very grateful to John F.W. Rogers for generously making this program possible along with our supporters:

Classical American Homes Preservation Trust
Historic Charleston Foundation
Oliveri Millworks
Traditional Building
Schafer Buccellato Architects

CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS

A Classical Studio, Inc.
Benedictine College
Gaston & Wyatt
Goodwin Classic Homes
Jared Goss
Historical Concepts
ICAA Northern California Chapter
Leeds Custom Design and Seabreeze Building
Anne Kriken Mann
John B. Murray & Elizabeth Brooke Murray
Poggenpohl
Reis Contracting
Skurman Architects
Peter J. Talty
Tucker & Marks
The Urban Electric Co.
Vallette & Russell Windham

LECTURE SPONSORS

Ankie & Fran Barnes
Stan Dixon
Marsha & David Dowler
Barbara Eberlein
Kirk Henckels
Jeff Allen Landscape Architecture, LLC
Anne Lazar
Marmi Stone
Suzanne R. Santry
Tammy Connor Interior Design
Urban Design Associates
Whitlock Builders
Bunny Williams

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Russell Windham, Chair
Ankie Barnes
Andrew Cogar
Richard Economakis
Ray Gindroz
Alexa Hampton
Thomas Lloyd
Michael Mesko
Eric Osth
Suzanne Santry

IN COLLABORATION WITH ICAA NATIONAL OFFICE STAFF

Peter Lyden, President
Caroline Slaten, Vice President, Development
Julia Sucher, Manager, Development & Special Events
Lexi Hoglund, Assistant, Development and Office of the President