Andres is a founding principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ), and a co-founder and emeritus board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism.

In the years since the firm first received recognition for the design of Seaside, Florida in 1980, DPZ has completed designs for over 300 new towns, downtowns, regional plans, and community revitalization projects. These projects have ranged from the scale of the building to over 500,000 acres, and are found in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Andres has delivered over one thousand lectures and seminars, addressing architects, planning groups, university students, and the general public. He has co-authored books including “Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream,” “The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning,” “The Smart Growth Manual,” “Towns and Town Making Principles,” “Transect Urbanism,” “Garden Cities: Theory & Pratie of Agrarian Urbanism,” “Landscape Urbanism and Its Discontents,” “The Lexicon,” and the soon to be published “Heterodoxia Architectonica.” He is also the principal author of the SmartCode which is the first open source form-based zoning code template.

Andres received his undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton University, and after a year of study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, he earned 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 the National Building Museum, the Society of American Registered Architects International Award, the Albert Simons Medal of Excellence, the Seaside Prize for contributions to community planning and design from the Seaside Institute, and the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. He has received numerous Charter Awards from the Congress for the New Urbanism as well as the Urban Guild Award for Exploration.