ANDRES DUANY AND ELIZABETH PLATER-ZYBERK WIN RICHARD H. DRIEHAUS PRIZE

Miami architects Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, the controversial husband-and-wife team who lead the traditional-town-planning movement called the New Urbanism, were named the winners Tuesday of next year’s Richard H. Driehaus Prize, which goes annually to a tradition-minded designer and now comes with two hundred thousand dollars in prize money. Blair Kamin, the Chicago Tribune’s architecture critic, notes that?Duany and Plater-Zyberk are by far the best-known winners of the award, which was established in 2003 by Chicago investor Richard Driehaus as a kind of alternative to the better-known Pritzker Architecture Prize. They are also the first team to win it, while Plater-Zyberk is the first female winner. The two have designed scores of towns, neighborhoods, and regional plans, including Seaside, the Florida-panhandle resort community that formed the backdrop for the movie The Truman Show.