HONORING the SEASIDE PRIZE RECIPIENTS
ELLEN DUNHAM–JONES and JUNE WILLIAMSON
FEBRUARY 7 – 9, 2025
HONORING the SEASIDE PRIZE RECIPIENTS
ELLEN DUNHAM–JONES and JUNE WILLIAMSON
FEBRUARY 7 – 9, 2025
VINCENT SCULLY
ELIZABETH PLATER–ZYBERK ANDRÉS DUANY
KRIER 1997
HON. JOSEPH P. RILEY, JR. 1998
PETER CALTHORPE
ELIZABETH MOULE
STEFANOS POLYZOIDES
DANIEL SOLOMON
ROBERT A.M. STERN 2000
ALDO ROSSI
ROBERT DAVIS
DARYL DAVIS
ALEXANDER COOPER JAQUELIN ROBERTSON
ELINOR R. BACON RAYMOND L. GINDROZ
DANIEL M. CARY 2007
WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI 2008 HANK DITTMAR
JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER
LYDON TONY GARCIA 2018
DEBORAH BERKE
ERNESTO BUCH
WALTER CHATHAM
ALEXANDER GORLIN
ROBERT ORR
2019 TOM CHRIST RICHARD GIBBS
JOHN MASSENGALE
DERRICK SMITH
CHARLES “CHIP” WARREN
2020
MICHAEL N. LYKOUDIS 2022 JEFF SPECK
VICTOR DOVER JOSEPH KOHL
DUNHAM–JONES JUNE WILLIAMSON
Welcome to the 31st Annual SEASIDE PrizeTM. It is a privilege and honor to celebrate deserving individuals each year in SEASIDE® and our neighboring communities. We have a robust weekend of exceptional speakers and experts in their field. The Prize winners are nominated by our Board of Fellows and voted on by our Board of Governors. Our speaker lineup is then selected by the Prize winner(s). The lineup includes individuals that have inspired or were inspired by this year’s winners. The annual weekend is made possible by our partners, donors, members, sponsors and presenting sponsors.
Robert and Daryl Davis founded the community of SEASIDE® along with
architects and visionaries Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk in 1981. They envisioned a community rooted in the core principles of traditional town design and succeeded by reminding us that sprawl was in need of repair, as suburbia was taking over and fracturing our communities. America was in the height of designing for cars and not for people and this resulted in a car-dependency. The vision of Seaside made its mark and is heavily studied world-wide as the birthplace of New Urbanism. The core four, Robert, Daryl, Andrés, and Liz have made it a priority to mentor, advocate, educate, and inspire other town founders, city leaders, students, architects, and communities both locally and globally.
The SEASIDE InstituteTM was founded in 1982 to bring cultural events to our community and soon became a resource of education and advocacy for the New Urbanism movement while also offering global study programs. Some of the ways we are working in education and advocacy through our Board of Governors and Board of Fellows is through research in transportation, mobility, conservation and sustainable development, climate change and resilience, incubation of an Aging with Grace program and
Bike Walton Coalition. We take action by building a more civic community and we attempt to align and collaborate to find solutions to problematic areas through dialogue. It is important to have a neutral space for leaders to talk through difficult decisions so that they can achieve common ground. We hope to act as a village square and inspire a more civic culture. We work in partnership and collaboration with government and community groups to encourage change, inspire development, and advocate for the implementation of policy and planning solutions.
Our mission is to Inspire Livable Communities through connectivity, adaptability, and sustainability. We believe in promoting the building of sustainable places through education and design. Our goal is to offer strategic educational programs that bring together residents, visitors, members, architects, planners, government officials, business leaders, and scholars to share ideas for building and supporting livable communities.
I hope this weekend leaves you inspired and ready to impact your community.
Much Gratitude, Christy Milliken
Subject to change, please refer to online schedule to confirm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6
1:00–5:00 PM
Annual SEASIDE Institute™ Board of Governors Meeting
5:00 PM
Annual SEASIDE Institute™ Board of Governors Dinner. [This private event is not open to Prize registrants.]
8:00 PM
GRANVILLE AUTOMATIC BAND | SOWAL House
• Doors open at 7PM, and show is at 8PM
• Seaside Prize™ Sponsors/VIPs will be sent a discount code to use when buying tickets.
• Must RSVP
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
REGISTRATION | Assembly Hall
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
WELCOME RECEPTION | 87 Central
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
RETROFITTING SUBURBIA KEYNOTE LECTURE
• WELCOME | Lisa Burwell, Daryl Davis, Christy Milliken
• “ADVENTURES IN RETROLIFTING SUBRUBIA” | –Ellen Dunham-Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology –June Williamson, The City College of New York
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8
8:00 AM
REGISTRATION + CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST | SEASIDE® Assembly Hall provided by Black Bear Bread Co.
8:45 AM
WELCOME | Jim Brainard, Incoming SEASIDE Institute™ Chairman
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
“SPRAWL REPAIR IN WALTON COUNTY” | Marina Khoury & Galina Tachieva, DPZ CoDesign
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 cont.
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
“THE NEW SUBURBIA” | Becky Nicolaides and Rachel Heiman
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM LUNCH | On Own
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
SEASIDE® TOWN GUIDED TOUR | Robert Davis, Micah Davis, Larry Davis and Dhiru Thadani or CAA TOUR OF HOMES SEASIDE®
[Both tours meet at the SEASIDE® Post Office and will return to the Lyceum by 2:30 PM.]
2:20 PM
AFTERNOON SESSION INTRO | Kevin Boyle, General Manager of SEASIDE®
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Conversation with Dolores Hayden, Yale University [virtual] and Emily Talen, University of Chicago
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
PANEL: “CONVERSATION ON WOMEN LEADERS IN (SUB)URBAN DESIGN & INTERGENERATIONAL MENTORSHIP”
Led by June Williamson & Ellen Dunham-Jones
5:00 PM
BOOK SIGNING AT THE LYCEUM FACILITATED BY SUNDOG BOOK
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
AWARDS CEREMONY | The Chapel at Seaside
• INTRODUCTION | Devaki Kesh, Principle & Veronica Rivas-Plaza, Street Plans • PRESENTATION OF THE SEASIDE PRIZE™ KEY | Robert Davis
8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
AWARDS DINNER | Bud & Alley’s Waterfront Dining immediately following Awards Ceremony
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
BREWED AWAKENINGS, A SUSTAINABLE COFFEE TASTING EXPERIENCE BY AMAVIDA | Seaside Assembly Hall “HISTORY, EVOLUTION, AND SUSTAINABILITY OF SEASIDE®, ROSEMARY BEACH®, AND ALYS BEACH®” – Andrés Duany and Senen Antionio, DPZ CoDesign
9:00 AM TO NOON
1. BIKE TOUR OF GRAYTON BEACH GUIDED BY BILLY & KELLY BUZZETT | Seaside Transit Authority and YOLO Board + Bike | meet at Central Square
2. OPTIONAL INFORMAL TOUR OF ALYS BEACH WITH MARIEANNE KHOURY-VOGT OR ROSEMARY BEACH WITH ANDRÉS DUANY | transportation on your own [please try to ride share or bike]
3. OPTIONAL CAA TOUR OF HOMES IN SEASIDE® | a special ticket rate available through CAA
2:00 PM
CONCLUSION OF 2025 SEASIDE PRIZETM WEEKEND
4:00 PM –6:00 PM
OPTIONAL: ESCAPE TO CREATE ARTIST RECEPTION | Anne Hunter Galleries at Amavida in Seaside®
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Architects and academics
Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson are co-authors of the groundbreaking “Retrofitting Suburbia” series of books. For over 20 years, they have documented and advocated for successful redevelopment, reinhabitation, and regreening of dead shopping malls, aging office parks, and other parking-lot-dominated real estate into more resilient, just, and community-serving places.
Their book Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley, 2008, updated 2011) won the Association of American Publishers
PROSE Award for best architecture and planning book of the year. A sequel, Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges (Wiley, 2021), won a Great Places Book Award from the Environmental Design Research Association. Their work has been widely featured, including in the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, PBS, and TED.
Ellen Dunham-Jones is professor and director of the MS in Urban Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where she hosts the “Redesigning Cities” podcast series. She has been
honored as the 2018-19 Woman Educator of the Year by Architectural Record, the 2023 Plym Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois and by Planetizen in 2017 and 2023 as one of the 100 most influential urbanists. Author of over 100 papers and book chapters on contemporary design theory and practice, she maintains the suburban retrofit database, tracking over 2,500 entries. She is a Fellow and past board chair of the Congress for the New Urbanism and currently serves on the steering committee of the Urban Design Academic Council.
June Williamson is professor and director of Graduate Programs in Architecture at The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Her sole-authored book Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb (Island Press, 2013) contextualizes and documents an innovative urban design ideas
competition for re-envisioning suburban areas of Long Island. She serves on the board of directors of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. She has practiced and taught architecture and urban design across the United States in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, and Boston.
The Seaside Prize is a testament to the tremendous impact June Williamson and Ellen Dunham- Jones have had on the built environment. Their books and teachings inspire architects, planners, urban designers, developers, and community leaders to retrofit aging, underperforming suburban properties to address urgent challenges, disrupt automobile dependence, improve public health, support an aging society, leverage social capital for equity, compete for jobs, and add water and energy resilience. Together, they have worked to bring change to education and assistance to communities so they may “Retrofit Suburbia”.
Before and after diagrams of Mueller Airport Redevelopment in Austin, TX
Source: Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson
As we move through our daily lives, we notice the appeal of a community as we pass by. Over time, as we live and work in a community, the things that drew us to live there become ingrained in our existence. They quietly shape who we are and how we live.
The SEASIDE PrizeTM recognizes individuals and organizations who, through design, have changed the way we live. Prize winners are thought innovators in the concepts, quality, and character of their industry. They are considered leaders of contemporary urban development and education who have made their vision a reality and, ultimately, our lives better.
Recipients of the Prize influence how towns and cities are built. They challenge our thinking about promoting diversity, walkability, sustainability, livability, and quality of life. From young to old - where we live is at the core of how we live.
Our Prize key was designed by Dhiru Thadani and cast by artist, Manish Waghdhare. The Prize box was handcrafted by our Legacy and Presenting Partner, E.F. San Juan, the artisans behind the millwork at The Chapel at Seaside where the key ceremony is held.
Marina Khoury is an expert in sustainable urban redevelopment, regional and master planning, transit-oriented developments, and form-based codes. As a partner at DPZ CoDesign, she has been Director of its Washington D.C. area office since 2007. A licensed architect and fluent in several languages, Khoury has worked on the design and implementation of projects in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe and the Middle East including ground-breaking new codes around the world that mandate resilient urbanism.
She speaks globally on issues related to Smart Growth and affordable, sustainable, and walkable communities, including at the United Nations. She co-led the development of the successful Miami 21 code, the country’s first form-based code and holds a strong track-record of getting such codes adopted in efforts to create a predictable framework for resilient places. Marina is one of 20 members on the Expert Committee of Global Forum on Human Settlements (UNEP-GFHS) International Green Model City (IGMC) Initiative, under the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Marina is also active in Washington area civic groups, including the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), where she served as a Board member of the CNU-DC chapter from 2007- 2012, and was made a Fellow in 2022. She served as Chair of the Executive Board of Smart Growth America’s Form-Based Code Institute (FBCI) from 2018-2021, is a member of the Lambda Alpha International George Washington Chapter, a member of the Urban Guild and a LEED Accredited professional.
Galina Tachieva is the managing partner of DPZ CoDesign, directing the work of the firm in the US and around the world. With more than 25 years of expertise in sustainable planning, urban redevelopment and form-based codes, Galina is the author of the Sprawl Repair Manual, an award-winning publication that focuses on the retrofit of auto-centric suburban places into complete walkable communities.
Multilingual, Galina has experience with projects across the US, Latin America, Europe and Russia, including downtowns and urban revitalizations, regional plans, environmental conservation, new
communities, and resort towns. Managing complex projects and teams, she has led charrettes and other public processes, from project initiation through implementation.
Galina maintains an active civic engagement. A Fellow of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), she has been leading its national Sprawl Retrofit Initiative. She is a founding member of the Council for European Urbanism (CEU) and has lectured throughout the world. She has been a visiting lecturer and design critic at Harvard University, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), and the University of Miami, among others.
Born and raised in Bulgaria, she received her architectural education at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia, Bulgaria. Later, Galina received her master’s degree in Urban Planning from the University of Miami School of Architecture. She is certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and is a LEED-Accredited Professional.
Becky Nicolaides is a historian specializing in American cities, suburbs, and metro areas. She earned her doctorate in American history at Columbia University, then served on the faculties at Arizona State University West and UC San Diego. Her work focuses on the history of North American suburbanization, especially histories of suburban diversity.
Nicolaides is the author of My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (Chicago 2002), The Suburb Reader 1st and 2nd editions (Routledge, 2006/2016), and The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945 (Oxford, 2024). She has written for Time Magazine, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and various academic publications.
Nicolaides has worked as a consultant on historic preservation projects and various film projects. She is cocoordinator of the L.A. History and Metro Studies group at the Huntington Library and subcommittee co-chair for Mayor Eric Garcetti’s L.A. Civic
Memory Working Group. She has given numerous lectures and presentations at Princeton, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Georgia Tech, University of Exeter (UK), Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germany), Université Clermont Auvergne (France), and Palacky University (Czech Republic). She is an affiliated scholar at the USC Institute on California and the West. She is married to a brilliant actor-film producer-engineer and they reside in the suburban foothills of L.A. with their two kids and two dogs.
Rachel Heiman is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Liberal Arts Program at The New School. She received her B.A in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the generative relationship between habits, sentiments, and spaces of everyday life and emerging cultural, political, economic, and environmental conditions. She is the author of Driving after Class: Anxious Times in an American Suburb (University of California Press, 2015) and coeditor (with Carla Freeman & Mark
Liechty) of The Global Middle Classes: Theorizing through Ethnography (School for Advanced Research Press, 2012). Her current project, for which she received a Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Post-Ph.D. Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and an ACLS Fellowship, brings together anthropology, urbanism, and architecture to explore emerging subjectivities, modes of citizenship, and regimes of governance amid efforts to redesign suburbia for a more sustainable future. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Humanities Center, the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM and the Russell Sage Foundation in New York, and a faculty fellow at the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. In Spring 2021, she was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center/CUNY.
Dolores Hayden is professor emerita of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University. A renowned scholar of the history of the American urban landscape and the politics of place, her works have been translated into over a dozen languages. Her earlier works include Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975 (MIT Press, 1976) and The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities (MIT Press, 1981).
A former president of the Urban History Association and a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians, Hayden is the recipient of the Radcliffe Graduate Medal for outstanding scholarship, an American Library Association Notable Book Award, two awards for Excellence in Design Research from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Paul Davidoff Award for an outstanding book in urban planning, the Donald Award, and the Oculus Award for feminist scholarship. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Radcliffe Institute, the NEH, the NEA, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
Emily Talen is Professor of Urbanism at the University of Chicago, where she teaches urban design and directs the Urbanism Lab. She holds a Ph.D. in urban geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a master’s in city planning from Ohio State University. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Talen has written extensively on the topics of urban design, New Urbanism, and social equity. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles and multiple books, including New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures, Design for Diversity: Exploring Socially Mixed Neighborhoods, Urban Design Reclaimed: Tools. Techniques, and Strategies for Planners, City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban Form. Neighborhood, and What Cities Say: A Social Interpretation of Urban Patterns and Forms. She is co-editor of the Journal of Urbanism.
Devaki Kesh is an architect and urban designer who is passionate about vernacular and local architecture, public space design, conservation, and form-based codes. She believes in three opportunities through urban design - social bonding, cultural expression, and ecological sensitivity.
Kesh is an Associate at Principle, an award-winning planning, urban design, and development firm committed to creating authentic places for human-oriented environments. She received a bachelor’s degree in architecture from RV College of Architecture and a master’s degree in urban design from Georgia Tech. In her free time, she enjoys making art, reading books, and being in nature.
Veronica Rivas Plaza has a background in architecture, urban design, placemaking, and sustainability with over 8 years of experience. She advocates for creating more walkable and bicycle friendly communities to improve the quality of life for everyone. She currently works at Street Plans and is focused on the design, plan, and execution of multiple tactical urbanism projects. Some of these include the Streetscape Improvement Plan for the Meatpacking District in New York City and the placemaking efforts to activate open spaces at Lincoln Heights and Richardson Dwellings Housing Projects in Washington, D.C.
In 2022, Rivas Plaza was featured as a panelist at the Transportation Alternatives Vision Zero Cities situating the 15-minute city. She also joined the Forefront Fellowship at the Urban Design Forum (UDF), where she serves on the Forefront Fund Advisory Committee.
Alys Beach is honored to celebrate the 2025 Seaside Prize.
As one of 30A’s Master-Planned communities, Alys Beach is a tribute to the innovation and vision of New Urbanism.
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Youngstown, Fla. (December 2024)
– The Seaside Institute and Seaside, Florida, founders Robert and Daryl Davis are honored to bestow its prestigious Seaside Prize recognition upon Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson at its 2025 Seaside Prize Weekend. The celebration will take place the weekend of February 7–9, with various events and symposia. E. F. San Juan, a custom architectural moulding, millwork, and cabinetry manufacturer based in Youngstown, Florida, has committed to an annual sponsorship the weekend as a platinum-level monetary donor and creator of bespoke wooden key enclosures for the prize recipients.
“The custom boxes my father created for the Seaside Prize last year represent a culmination of everything our family has accomplished since he opened E. F. San Juan in 1976,” says the company’s president, Edward San Juan. “Robert and Daryl Davis have created something with Seaside that’s taken on a life of its own, and we’re grateful to have worked in the town from the
beginning. Our partnership with architects and builders in the town of Seaside spans four decades, and providing our services for these homes and the magnificent Chapel at Seaside represented a pivotal point for our company. We happily give back through this sponsorship and gesture of creating a mahogany box to encase the coveted Seaside Prize Key.”
This custom-crafted box designed by founder and CEO Ed San Juan symbolizes the quality and dedication shared by E. F. San Juan and the Seaside Institute in their joint commitment to excellence and the art of design. It is a sponsorship to be presented in perpetuity for the Seaside Prize for all future events, first presented in February 2024 to Victor Dover and Joe Kohl, founders of Dover, Kohl & Partners, a renowned Miami-based town planning firm. Thanks to the popularity of the mahogany boxes, Ed San Juan has also worked to create enough of them to present to past Seaside Prize winners as a keepsake
and protective case for their bronze key-shaped awards designed by Dhiru Thadani and cast by artisan Manish Waghdhare.
“The work E. F. San Juan has done in the Town of Seaside is a tremendous asset to our community’s beauty, longevity, and legacy,” says Seaside cofounder and visionary Robert Davis. “Their commitment to excellence reflects everything the Seaside Institute stands for. We’re so happy to have them as a sponsor for the Prize Weekend and to present our Seaside Prize recipients with such a special keepsake as the box they’ve created.”
The Seaside Prize recognizes individuals or organizations whose life’s work aligns with the Seaside Institute’s vision of promoting livable communities. The honor is a testament to the tremendous impact June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones have had on the built environment. Their books and teachings inspire architects, planners, urban designers, developers, and community leaders to retrofit aging, underperforming suburban properties to address urgent challenges, disrupt automobile dependence, improve public health, support an aging society, leverage social capital for equity, compete for jobs, and add water and energy resilience. Together, they have worked to bring change to education and communities to “Retrofit Suburbia.”
“Being present in the Chapel at Seaside for our 2024 award ceremony was such a moving experience as E. F. San Juan presented their bespoke Prize Key enclosure to Victor Dover and Joe Kohl,” says Seaside Institute executive director Christy Milliken. “Ed and Edward San Juan have literally built a family legacy in our New Urbanism communities here in South Walton, including Seaside, Alys Beach, and Rosemary Beach. Having them be part of the Seaside Prize just made sense, and it’s been an honor to get to know them and learn about all they have contributed to the architectural integrity of our area.”
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“You can’t finish a city in a day or a lifetime. All you can do is start. Rome was not built in a day but has actually spanned thousands of years. Seaside on, the other hand, was created in 40 years as of 2023.”
You can’t finish a city in a day or a lifetime. All you can do is start. Rome was not built in a day but has actually spanned thousands of years. Seaside on, the other hand, was created in 40 years in 2023.
—robert davis Seaside Founder/Visionary
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