[1] He attended The Choate School and Aiglon College and received his undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton University (1971).

After a year of study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he received a master's degree from the Yale School of Architecture (1974).

[1] In 1977, Duany co-founded the Miami firm Arquitectonica with his wife, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Laurinda Spear, and Hervin Romney.

The firm has since completed designs and codes for over three hundred new towns, regional plans, and inner-city revitalization projects.

[1] He has co-authored five books: Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream; The New Civic Art; The Smart Growth Manual; Garden Cities; and Landscape Urbanism and Its Discontents.