Architecture and town planning firm, United States The firm of Duany and Plater-Zyberk and Company (DPZ) was formed in 1980. They have designed a number of award-winning, internationally published buildings that explore the transformation of local building tradition through classical systems of order. Their early Key Biscayne houses—Hibiscus (1981), De la Cruz (1983), Vilanova (1985)—and commercial buildings, such as Galen Medical (1983), in Boca Raton, reflect the grounding of abstract principles of architectural ordering borrowed from Le Corbusier’s evolutionary theories of modernism as derived from classicism. As architecture students at Yale University in the early 1970s, Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk absorbed the university’s eclectic approach to the study of architecture with a growing emphasis on the craft-based tradition of building exemplified in early America’s vernacular architecture. The theories of Vincent Scully, who decried the fierce effects of urban redevelo...