Hosted by the Washington Mid Atlantic Chapter | 2 AIA CES Learning Units|HSW
Kentlands was among the very first new traditional neighborhoods built in the United States since WWII. In 1988, Town Founder Joe Alfandre hired Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk to prepare the Master Plan in a public design charrette. Watkins showed up on the third day of the charrette and offered to help. He has worked and lived there ever since.
The walking tour will include the history of the community, the principles on which it was designed, lessons learned, and plenty of time for questions and answers. ICAA members are encouraged to bring protective eye-wear. As Eve Kahn wrote in an early review of Kentlands in the New York Times “…the architectural details make your teeth hurt.” The architectural design standards and the role of the town architect will, no doubt, be the topic of much discussion during the tour.
Thirty-four years later, the 352-acre neighborhood is a thriving community of some 6,000 people, double that if you include the seamlessly integrated DPZ-designed sister neighborhood, Lakelands, which was design and built 8 years after Kentlands. Together the two neighborhoods contain some 2500 residences of a variety of types (single-family detached homes, townhouses, 12-plex condominiums, large double-loaded corridor apartment buildings, and garage apartments), 65 live work units, roughly 1 million square feet of commercial space (two grocery stories, a movie theater, dozens of restaurants, and more), as well as a public elementary school, a public middle school, a child-care center, two community clubhouses, a church and a synagogue.
MIKE WATKINS
Mike Watkins is the founder of Michael Watkins Architect, LLC, an urban design and architecture firm dedicated to designing and implementing a walkable, lasting, and beautiful public realm that fosters community. The firm’s work includes the preparation of master plans for towns, neighborhoods and hamlets, revitalization and extension plans for existing communities, preparation of design guidelines, various town architect services for new and existing communities, and leading and participating in urban design charrettes. The firm serves as the Town Architect for Norton Commons in Louisville, KY. and other communities in, Louisiana, South Carolina, Ohio, and elsewhere. The firm has collaborated with other New Urbanist firms, among them: Torti Gallas + Partners, Placemakers, Urban Design Associates, and the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community.
Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company hired Watkins to open their Washington D.C. office in 1988. While with DPZ, he served as the Town Architect for Kentlands, a 352-acre neo-traditional neighborhood northwest of Washington, D.C., led many charrettes for a wide variety of project types, and was a member of design teams for over sixty towns and neighborhoods in the United States and abroad. In 2007 Watkins left his position as Director of Town Planning with DPZ to enroll in the Masters program in Classical Design offered by The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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