Honor attained at the University of Miami. In 2014, she was awarded the Arts & Culture Award by the Coral Gables Community Foundation. For ten years, Plater-Zyberk was a trustee of Princeton University, where she chaired the university's Building Committee during an active period of building and expansion. During her tenure on the Building Committee, the university hired architects such as Robert Venturi, Frank Gehry, and Demetri Porphyrios. Porphyrios designed the Collegiate Gothic Whitman College, the first in a series of new Collegiate Gothic buildings to be built in the historic center of the campus. Plater-Zyberk is a founder and emeritus board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, which was established in 1993. She has been a visiting professor at many major North American schools of architecture, has been awarded several honorary doctorates and awards, and lectures frequently. In 2001, she and Duany were awarded the Vincent Scully Prize by the National Building Museum in recognition of their contributions to the American built environment. In 2008, she was appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. Her recent books include The New Civic Art and Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. References Duany, Andrés, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck (2000). Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. New York: North Point Press. Duany, Andrés, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Robert Alminana (2003). The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning. New York: Rizzoli International Publications. Lombard, Joanna (2005). The Architecture of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company. New York: Rizzoli International Publications. References External links Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company University of Miami School of Architecture Congress for the New Urbanism PDF of Miami SoA at the Driehaus Prize ceremony 1950 births Living people American urban planners Women urban planners New Urbanism Schools of the Sacred Heart alumni People from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Elizabeth University of Miami faculty American women architects Driehaus Architecture Prize winners Architects from Miami Yale School of Architecture alumni Princeton University School of Architecture alumni New Classical architects 21st-century American architects 21st-century American women artists American women academics Arquitectonica people