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J <br />:J <br />V. <br />J <br />J. <br />J <br />FL <br />R <br />x <br />4 <br />r <br />lJuany and Plater- Lybcrk: rethinking the runrepb behind'thi: planned community <br />Blueprint for <br />theFuture <br />By JOSEPH GIOVANNINI <br />or architects Andres Duany and <br />Eltubeth Pkiter- Zyberk, a cup of <br />coffee is one of the measures of cul- <br />ture. In one aspect of their vision of <br />wi ideal city or town. friends and colleagues <br />chance upon each other on a sidewalk, duck <br />into a cafe, spot a third friend with a fourth <br />person. Companionship, conversation, and <br />ideas fluty. <br />But with some exasperation, Duany re- <br />calls that not long ago it took three people <br />most of a working day to reach a couple of <br />hundred people in Miami to arrange a pro- <br />fessional get- together early that evening. , <br />Finally, some thirty people came in thirty <br />cars. In cities like Miami, he believes, the <br />car separates people. "Things can be reme- <br />died in our 'towns, and it can be done im- <br />mediately," he says. "What we're building <br />into our suburbs, especially in the Sun ]:felt, <br />is tragic —it's completely dependent on cars <br />and it's antisocial. The result is that culture <br />doesn't develop, because ideas aren't ex- <br />changed, because people aren't talking. Mi- <br />ami can buy all the culture it wants, but <br />nothing ever happens to intensity it. 1 want <br />to reform society at the level of having peo- <br />ple meet." <br />Several years ago, their firm planned the <br />wonderfully casual and critically acclaimed <br />new Gulf Coast resort town of Seaside, <br />Florida, laying out its streets, squares, and <br />groups of buildings, and setting up design <br />guidelines for all of the buildings. It is the <br />blueprint for what may be a more Conversa- <br />tional future. <br />With its picket fences, sloping tin roofs, <br />wood trim, clapboard siding, and the local <br />Andres Ddliny <br />Elizabeth <br />Plater-Zy erk <br />ffs M_ ANDRES M. DU NY <br />A Architect <br />Miami, Fla. <br />b. 9/7/49 <br />Designed ELIZABETH <br />the master PLATER -ZYBER <br />plan for Architect <br />Seaside, Miami, Fla. <br />Florida, a b. 12120/50 <br />down -home resort town that <br />represents an alternative to <br />America's shapeless tract <br />developments. Met while studying <br />architecture at Princeton and later <br />graduated together from the Yale <br />School of Architecture. <br />Collaborated in 1975 on a <br />historical restoration in Key est, <br />then joined three other orc.hit cts <br />to found the Miami -based <br />Arquitectonico. Resigned in 1960 <br />to form their own portnershi , <br />Andres Duany and Elizabet <br />Plater - Zyberk, Architects. <br />ESQV1kE /1)ECEM11Ek 19m <br />