12 Facts About Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is a co-founder and principal of DPZ CoDesign, a Miami-based architecture firm.

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Jozafat Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, an architect, and his wife, Maria Meysztowicz, a professor of French at Villanova University.

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is an alumna of Sacred Heart Academy Bryn Mawr, and received her undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton University and a master's degree in architecture from the Yale School of Architecture in 1974.

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk received an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from the Yale School of Architecture in 2023.

In 1977, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk co-founded the Miami firm Arquitectonica with her husband Andres Duany, Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Laurinda Hope Spear, and Hervin Romney.

In 1980, Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk founded DPZ CoDesign, based in Miami.

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk has taught at the University of Miami School of Architecture since 1979.

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk served as dean of the university's School of Architecture from 1995 to 2013, and as dean she hired the architect Leon Krier to design his first public building in Florida for the school of architecture.

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk has served as director of the university's Center for Urban Community and Design, organizing and promoting numerous design exercises to the benefit of communities throughout South Florida.

For ten years, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk was a trustee of Princeton University, where she chaired the university's Building Committee during an active period of building and expansion.

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is a founder and emeritus board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, which was established in 1993.

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk has been a visiting professor at many major North American schools of architecture, has been awarded several honorary doctorates and awards, and lectures frequently.