Bios Of Project Leaders

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Andrés Duany

Andrés Duany is a founding principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ). DPZ is widely recognized as a leader of the New Urbanism, an international movement that promotes traditional city and town design and seeks to counter suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment. In the years since the firm first received recognition for the design of Seaside, Florida, in 1980, DPZ has completed designs for close to 300 new towns, regional plans, and community revitalization projects. This work has exerted a significant influence on the practice and direction of urban planning and development in the United States and abroad.

The firm's method of integrating planning with accompanying design codes is being applied in towns and cities on sites ranging from 10 to over 500,000 acres throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. DPZ has received numerous awards, including two State of Florida Governor's Urban Design Awards for Excellence. Seaside has been documented in over 800 articles and books and was described by Time Magazine as "the most astounding design achievement of its era." The projects of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company have focused international attention on urbanism and its postwar decline.

DPZ was instrumental in the creation of the Traditional Neighborhood Development Ordinance (TND), a prescription for pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use, compact urban growth, which has been incorporated into the zoning codes of municipalities across the country. The firm has developed a comprehensive municipal zoning ordinance called the SmartCode, prescribing appropriate urban arrangement for all uses and all densities.

Andrés Duany has delivered hundreds of lectures and seminars, addressing architects, planning groups, university students, and the general public. With co-author Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, his recent publications include The New Civic Art and Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (also co-authored with Jeff Speck). He is a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, where he continues to serve on the Board of Directors. Established in 1993 with the mission of reforming urban growth patterns, the Congress has been characterized by The New York Times as "the most important collective architectural movement in the United States in the past fifty years."

Duany received his undergraduate degree in architecture and urbanplanning from Princeton University, and after a year of study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, he received a master's degree in architecture from the Yale School of Architecture. He has been awarded several honorary doctorates, the Brandeis Award for Architecture, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal of Architecture from the University of Virginia, the Vincent J. Scully Prize for exemplary practice and scholarship in architecture and urban design from theNational Building Museum, and the Seaside Prize for contributions to community planning and design from the Seaside Institute.

John Norquist

Former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist is the President and CEO of the Congress for New Urbanism, the leading organization promoting well-designed, walkable cities and towns as alternatives to sprawl. His work promoting New Urbanism as an alternative to sprawl and antidote to sprawl's social and environmental problems draws on his nearly 25-year experience in elected office and his role as a prominent participant in national discussions on urban design and school reform.

Under his leadership as Mayor between 1988 and 2003, Milwaukee experienced a decline in poverty, saw a boom in new downtown housing and became a leading center of education and welfare reform. Norquist oversaw a revision of the city's zoning code and reoriented development around walkable streets and public amenities such as the city's 3.1-mile Riverwalk. He has drawn widespread recognition for championing the removal of a .8 mile stretch of elevated freeway, clearing the way for an anticipated $250 million in infill development in the heart of Milwaukee.

Leading CNU since January 2004, Norquist has overseen membership growth and the involvement of CNU in a number of vital projects, including a joint venture with the Institute for Transportation Engineers to create a new DOT-ready guidelines for context-sensitive major urban thoroughfares; and LEED-ND, a joint venture with the United States Green Building Council and the Natural Resources Defense Council to create a comprehensive rating system for environmentally sensitive, urban neighborhoods.

Norquist is the author of The Wealth of Cities, and has taught courses in urban policy and urban planning at the University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and at Marquette University.
Norquist earned his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He represented Milwaukee's south and west sides in the Wisconsin Legislature. He chaired the National League of Cities Task Force on Federal Policy and Family Poverty and served on the Amtrak Reform Council. He is married to CNU Board Member Susan Mudd. They have two children, Benjamin and Katherine.

Stephen Mouzon

Steve Mouzon has been an advocate for traditional town planning and smart growth for over twenty years, amassing one of the best private architectural and town planning libraries in the Southeast, with over 2,000 volumes, 14,000 slides and 20,000 images. Working predominantly in traditional and classical styles, he serves as Town Architect at Gorham's Bluff, The Preserve and The Waters, all located in Alabama.

Mouzon is co-founder of the New Urban Guild, a group of architects, landscape architects and other New Urbanists dedicated to the study and design of true traditional buildings and places inspired by the region in which they are built. The Guild currently works in the towns and neighborhoods of Duany, Plater-Zyberk & Company, and is in the process of publishing a Plan Book of homes designed for traditional neighborhoods.
Steve Mouzon is a principal of PlaceMakers in Miami, Florida, a firm of architects, planners, and marketers dedicated to comprehensive placemaking. PlaceMakers produces pattern books that guide design at the scale of architecture and offers SmartCode customization services which create form-based codes for municipalities. PlaceMakers also performs a range of traditional town planning services on selected projects. Mouzon’s design work has won numerous design awards.

Mouzon has authored or contributed to a number of publications in recent years, including the "Public Works Manual" (co-authored with Andres Duany and Daisy Kone). Other publications include "Biltmore Estate Homes" (Southern Living), "Architectural Elements: Traditional Construction Details" (McGraw-Hill), "1001 Traditional Construction Details" (McGraw-Hill) and the "Charter of the New Traditional Architecture." Upcoming books include a 2-volume monograph on the works of Charles Barrett (also co-authored with Andres Duany), "Downtown Redevelopment Guidelines" and "The Four Realms of Architecture."

Mouzon continues to create new editions of his Catalog of the Most-Loved Places, which features numerous historic cities and towns and typically includes every structure built before about 1925 in various historic towns or districts. The catalog began in the South, with volumes on both famous districts such as the French Quarter and lesser-known jewels such as Mooresville, Alabama and Beaufort, South Carolina. The images include not only every structure in the district, but also street & sidewalk shots, which fill in the details of the essential character of the district.
Now LEED-accredited, he lives and works among the urban comforts and Art Deco flair of Miami Beach, Florida.

Michael Barranco

Michael Barranco is principal of his own firm, Barranco, PLLC Architecture, Planning & Interior Design founded in 1999 in Jackson, Mississippi. Having studied abroad in Plymouth, England and Rome, Italy; Michael Barranco has been grounded in the traditions of European town planning and architectural design.
The philosophy of the firm’s practice is that architecture is made whole by the proper integration of Interior Design, Landscape Design, and Vehicular/Pedestrian circulation. These principles have established the firm’s identity as students of the New Urbanists movement and have served as a benchmark for the firm’s success.

The firm has designed many significant local projects. Their work ranges from the public to the private sector and includes governmental, educational, institutional, spiritual, housing, professional office, hospitality design, and town/master planning. Included in this work is the establishment of the architectural identity of the Township at Colony Park in Ridgeland, Mississippi which is the Metro Jackson areas first Traditional Neighborhood Development. The firm was also selected to provide the Master Plan and architectural design of the Harbor Walk at the Ross Barnett Reservoir. Comprising over one million square feet when fully completed, this project will be considered to be the larger town harbor for the entire Ross Barnett Reservoir including Lost Rabbit.

Mr. Barranco, a state government network member of the AIA, has created a firm that is comprised of artists, craftsmen and technicians that are dedicated to the firm’s philosophy of enhancing the built environment.

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