A graduate thesis national design award winner, W. Brian Wright began his work with Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, the founders of the New Urbanism movement. Brian worked as a Town Planner and Project Manager at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ), the top New Urbanist firm in the world.

While at DPZ, Brian participated in approximately twenty New Urbanist charrettes around the world ranging from regional master plans to small greenfield projects. While at DPZ Brian founded the Next Generation of New Urbanists, an international organization of young New Urbanists with several hundred members. He also aided in the formation of several chapters of Students for New Urbanism at universities around the country. After becoming an expert in New Urbanist theory and design, Brian was offered the opportunity to broaden his experience by working in the development world with a DPZ client. After his time at DPZ, Brian became the Director of Town Planning and Urban Design for Southern Land Company, a large development company focusing on New Urbanist, mixed-use developments.

While heading up the Town Planning and Urban Design Studio, Brian directed the team in the planning and coding of five new projects in the first year and also lead several charrettes. Through his work at the development company, Brian learned how to marry the concepts of New Urbanist theory and design with the practical realities of development, and gained an understanding of what causes so many New Urban plans to fall short. This realization prompted Brian to take action and start his own firm. Brian founded Town Planning & Urban Design Collaborative L.L.C. (TPUDC), a planning firm specializing in not only design charrettes but also in the implementation of New Urbanist projects. Since its founding, TPUDC has been involved in a wide range of great projects from designing and coding city-wide master plans to rebuilding the hurricanedevastated Gulf Coast of Mississippi into a 10 acre high-density, mixed-use infill project. In addition to this planning work, TPUDC serves as Director of Design and provides architectural review services for several projects, aiding in their implementation and assuring that the built reality lives up to the great master plan. Brian took special interest in the uniqueness and potential of Simpler Times Village and recently stepped up to be our town planner to see the project
through to completion.

Brian’s Current Projects include:
Breakaway, North Carolina: www.breakawaync.com
Westhaven, Tennessee: www.westhaventn.com