WHO is currently the most influential architect in the world? One candidate for the top spot is Andrés Duany, a passionate yet urbane Cuban-American with Hollywood looks who has instigated a building revolution in the United States. Never heard of him?
You soon will: Duany has a notion to reform the planning system here in Scotland. If he succeeds, the Scottish construction industry will put up statues to him. Duany is best-known in Britain for being the designer of Seaside, the real town in Florida used as a backdrop for the movie The Truman Show, in which Truman Burbank (played by Jim Carrey) lives his life oblivious to the fact he is the star of a fly-on-the-wall, reality TV programme.
WHO is currently the most influential architect in the world? One candidate for the top spot is Andrés Duany, a passionate yet urbane Cuban-American with Hollywood looks who has instigated a building revolution in the United States.
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