30th Celebration
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, FAIA, CNU
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is a founding principal of DPZ CoDesign, and the Malcolm Matheson Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University of Miami where she directs the Master in Urban Design Program, after 18 years as dean of the School of Architecture.
Plater-Zyberk is a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, an organization established in 1993 to promote walkable, resilient urban design. She is co-author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream and The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning.
At DPZ, Plater-Zyberk has led and managed projects ranging from individual building design to new community design, community rebuilding, regional plans and zoning codes–including Miami 21, the ground-breaking form-based code for the City of Miami, approved in 2010 and currently in use. Her work with partner Andres Duany has been widely recognized by awards such as the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture and the APA National Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice for Miami 21.
PRIZE SPEAKER: Bernice Radle is the Executive Director of Preservation Buffalo Niagara, a non profit dedicated to saving and restoring historic properties in Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
Additionally, Bernice founded Buffalove Development in 2012, a full-service real estate firm focused on reviving vacant and underutilized places and spaces in Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
PRIZE SPEAKER: Allan Branch
Allan is a third-generation entrepreneur in Panama City, Florida. He grew up working at his family’s car washes. He was inspired by his dad who operated and grew the family business, and his mom who was committed to homeschooling five kids. He attributes that at the heart of what he does is because of everything he learned from his parents. Allan’s day job is building software companies. He and his wife have been buying real estate in Historic Downtown Panama City since 2016. He attributes the vitality and success of his businesses to the teams operating them.
PRIZE SPEAKER: Dr. Philip Stoddard has been a professor of biology at Florida International University since 1992 and Mayor of South Miami from 2010-2020. In 2015 Mayor Stoddard was appointed by the White House to the Governance Coordinating Committee of the National Ocean Council where he developed national policy for sea level rise. Mayor Stoddard was named by Politico Magazine to the Politico-50 “guide to the thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics in 2016” for his frank explanations of sea level rise. Miami New Times named Mayor Stoddard the “Best Politician of 2017”. A big proponent of renewable energy, his house and car are powered by the sun.
PRIZE SPEAKER: John D. Simmerman, MS, is a veteran public health and health promotion professional and consultant with over 33 years of experience helping communities create more people-oriented places and a “Culture of Activity” through proven “All Ages & Abilities” design concepts and evidence-based behavior change initiatives
PRIZE SPEAKER: John Massengale AIA CNU was Seaside Town Architect in 1986 and a Seaside Prize Winner in 2019. With Victor Dover he wrote Street Design, The Secret to Great Cities and Towns (Wiley, 2014). He also wrote New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1914 with Robert A.M. Stern and Gregory Gilmartin (Rizzoli, 1983), and The Anglo-American Suburb—a prime sourcebook for the design of Seaside—with Stern in 1981. He is perhaps most famous at Seaside for taking Daryl and Robert Davis’s dachshund Guinness back to New York with him. John Massengale will introduce his Street Design co-author Victor Dover. John Massengale and Victor Dover will talk about the upcoming Tenth Anniversary Edition of Street Design, The Secret To Great Cities and Towns (Wiley, 2024).
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