Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (born December 20, 1950 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is an American architect and urban planner of Polish-Livonian aristocratic roots based in Miami, Florida. She received her undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton and her master's degree in architecture from the Yale School of Architecture.

She is a representative of New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture.

In 1977, Plater-Zyberk was co-founder of the Miami firm Arquitectonica with her husband Andrés Duany, Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Laurinda Hope Spear, and Hervin Romney. Arquitectonica became famous for its signature style: a dramatic, expressive "high-tech" modernism. The firm's Atlantis Condominium was featured prominently in the opening credits of Miami Vice.

Duany and Plater-Zyberk founded Duany Plater Zyberk & Company (DPZ) in 1980, with its headquarters in Miami. DPZ became a leader in the national movement called the New Urbanism and distinguished itself by designing traditional towns and retrofitting into existing suburbs into livable downtowns. The firm first received international recognition in the 1980s as the designer of Seaside, Florida, and has completed designs and codes for over two hundred new towns, regional plans, and community revitalization projects.

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