Contact:
Eric Sloss
412-268-5765

For immediate release:
September 19, 2006

Carnegie Mellon's David Lewis Lecture Series Presents Architects Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's School of Architecture's David Lewis Lecture Series presents "Stepping up to the Scaffold: Post-Katrina Planning on the Gulf Coast" by architects Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. The lecture will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 9 at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall in Oakland. A pre-lecture reception will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Carnegie Museum Hall of Architecture. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Since 1980, Duany and Plater-Zyberk have led the firm Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ), a leader of New Urbanism, an urban design movement dedicated to reforming all aspects of real estate development and urban planning to make walkable neighborhoods that contain a diverse range of housing. DPZ has prepared more than 200 master plans in the U.S., Europe and Asia for greenfield development and urban restoration projects.

The husband-and-wife team has been deeply involved in post-Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts in Mississippi and Louisiana, working closely with other New Urbanist firms, including Urban Design Associates of Pittsburgh. This August, DPZ was awarded the master-planning contract for the French Quarter in New Orleans.

This is the fifth annual David Lewis Lecture on urban design sponsored by Carnegie Mellon's School of Architecture. The lecture is underwritten by Urban Design Associates in honor of Lewis, founder of the firm in 1964 and an emeritus distinguished university professor at Carnegie Mellon. Previous speakers have been Donlyn Lyndon, Fred Koetter, John Norquist and Leon Krier.

For more information about the lecture or Urban Design Associates, contact Lori Paul Sipes at 412-263-5200. For more information on the School of Architecture or the College of Fine Arts, visit www.cmu.edu/cfa or contact Eric Sloss at 412-268-5765 or ecs@andrew.cmu.edu.

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